| Is a short word part added at the END a prefix or root to modify its meaning | Suffixes |
| Suffixes are indicated or specified by | a dash before the suffix. |
| Suffixes usually indicates a | Surgical proceudre, condition, and disease |
| Categories of Suffixes: | Pertaining to, Condition of, Miscellaneous, Surgical procedure, Diagnostic, Pathological disease and condition, Medical specialty |
| Categories of Suffixes 1 out of 7: | Pertaining to |
| Categories of Suffixes 2 out of 7: | Condition of |
| Categories of Suffixes 3 out of 7: | Miscellaneous |
| Categories of suffixes 4 out of 7: | Surgical procedure |
| Categories of suffixes 5 out of 7: | Diagnostic |
| Categories of suffixes 6 out of 7: | Pathological disease and condition |
| Categories of suffixes 7 out of 7: | medical specialty |
| A medical treatment or operation or it describes a type of invasive procedure performed on a body part | A surgical procedure |
| Denote a procedure or test performed to identify the cause and nature of an illness | Diagnostic suffixes |
| Is an unhealthy state;
Describe an abnormal condition or disease;
medical problem that needs to be treated or managed;
Also known as: Disease, Illnesses, Pathological | A condition |
| Defining medical term involving suffixes on:
Suffix on pertaining to or resembling
Suffix on Condition of
Suffix on diagnostics
Suffix on Surgical procedure
Suffix on Medical specialties | If the medical term consist of only prefix and suffix; it is define by beginning or starting with the suffix followed by the prefix |
| Defining medical term involving suffixes on:
Suffixes on pathologic and disease condition and miscellaneous | If the medical term consist of only prefix and suffix; it is define by beginning or starting with the prefix followed by the suffix |
| All miscellaneous word both on PREFIX and SUFFIX can be use as a? | root word |
| Suffixes on pathologic and disease condition and miscellaneous; The term can be read or defined as interchanged on prefix if? | The original definition doesn't sound good. |
| Pertaining to; When a word ending in "x" has a suffix added, the "x" is changed to? | "g" or "c" |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ac (-iac)
Ex.: cardiac | pertaining to the heart |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -al (-ial)
Ex.: skeletal | pertaining to the skeleton |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ar
muscular | Pertaining to muscles |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ary
Ex.: dietary | Pertaining to the diet |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -eal
Ex.: corneal | Pertaining to the cornea |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -form
Ex.: muciform | Like or resembling mucus |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ic*
Ex.: metric | Pertaining to to a meter |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ical (ic + al)
Ex.: anatomical | Pertaining to anatomy |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ile
Ex.: febrile | Pertaining to fever |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -oid
Ex.: toxoid | resembling toxin |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ory
Ex.: respiratory | Pertaining to respiration |
| Pertaining to or resembling: -ous
Ex.: venous | Pertaining to vein |
| Condition of: -ia
Ex.: Phobia | a condition of persistent and exaggerated fear |
| Condition of: -ism
Ex.: Alcoholism | a condition of increase alcohol intake |
| Condition of: -sis*
Ex.: acidosis | acid condition of body fluids |
| Condition of: -iasis
amebiasis | a condition of pathogenic infection |
| Diagnostic: -gram/ -graphy | Record, writing |
| Diagnostic: -graph | instrument for recording |
| Diagnostic: -meter | instrument for measuring |
| Diagnostic: -metry | act of measuring/ measurement |
| Diagnostic: -scope | Instrument for examining or viewing |
| Diagnostic: -scopy | Visualization or visual examination |
| Surgical procedures: -centesis | Surgical puncture |
| Surgical procedures: -clast or -clasis | To beak |
| Surgical procedures: -desis | Binding, fixation (bone or joint) |
| Surgical procedures: -ectomy | Surgical excision, removal, or cutting out |
| Surgical procedures: -lysis | Separation; destruction; beakdown |
| Surgical procedures: -pexy/-pexis | Surgical fixation (of an organ) |
| Surgical procedures: -plasty | Surgical repair or shaping |
| Surgical procedures: -rrhaphy | Suturing in place |
| Surgical procedures: -stomy | Surgical opening or forming an opening |
| Surgical procedures: -tome | Instrument to cut |
| Surgical procedures: -tomy | Surgical incision or cut |
| Surgical procedures: -tripsy | Crushing |
| Pathological or disease condition: -algia/-dynia | Pain |
| Pathological or disease condition: -cele | Hernia, protrusion |
| Pathological or disease condition: -ectasis/-ecstasia | Dilation or expansion |
| Pathological or disease condition: -edema | Swelling |
| Pathological or disease condition: -emesis | Vomiting |
| Pathological or disease condition: -emia | Blood |
| Pathological or disease condition: -gen/-genesis | Forming, producing, origin |
| Pathological or disease condition: -iasis/-ism/-esis | Abnormal condition |
| Pathological or disease condition: -itis | Inflammation |
| Pathological or disease condition: -lith | Stone,Calculus |
| Pathological or disease condition: -malacia | softening |
| Pathological or disease condition: -megaly | enlargement |
| Pathological or disease condition: -oma | Tumor |
| Pathological or disease condition: -osis (noted: used mostly with blood cells) | Abnormal condition |
| Pathological or disease condition: -pathy (Note: Maybe used as prefix and rootword as patho-) | Disease |
| Pathological or disease condition: -penia | Decrease; deficiency |
| Pathological or disease condition: -phagia | eating or swallowing |
| Pathological or disease condition: -phasia | speech |
| Pathological or disease condition: -phobia | Fear |
| Pathological or disease condition: -plasia/-plasm | Formation, growth, molding |
| Pathological or disease condition: -Plegia | Paralysis |
| Pathological or disease condition: -Paresis | Weakness |
| Pathological or disease condition: -ptosis | Dropping of an organ, Prolapse, downward displacement |
| Pathological or disease condition: -rrhage/-rrhagia | Excessive flow or bursting forth |
| Pathological or disease condition: -rrhea | Discharge,flow |
| Pathological or disease condition: -rrhexis | Rupture |
| Pathological or disease condition: -Sclerosis | Abnormal condition of hardening |
| Pathological or disease condition: -spasm | Involuntary contraction, twitching |
| Pathological or disease condition: -stenosis | Narrowing, stricture |
| Pathological or disease condition: -toxic | Poison |
| Pathological or disease condition: -trophy | Nourishment, development |
| Medical specialties: -ian/-ician | Specialist in a field of study |
| Medical specialties: -iatrics | medical specialty |
| Medical specialties: -iatry | medical specialty |
| Medical specialties: -ics | medical specialty |
| Medical specialties: -ist/logist | Specialist in a field of study |
| Medical specialties: -logy | study of |
| Miscellaneous: -acusis | hearing or condition of hearing |
| Miscellaneous: -asthenia | Weakness |
| Miscellaneous: -cle/-cule | small |
| Miscellaneous: -cyte | cell |
| Miscellaneous: -esthesia | sensation, feeling |
| Miscellaneous: -form/-old | resembling; shape like |
| Miscellaneous: -lepsy | Seizure |
| Miscellaneous: -opia | Vision or condition of vision |
| Miscellaneous: -parous | Given birth |
| Miscellaneous: -pnea | Breathing |
| Miscellaneous: -ptysis | Spitting |
| Miscellaneous: -uria | urine or urination |
| Miscellaneous: -dipsia | Thirst |
| Miscellaneous: -pepsis | Digestion |
| Miscellaneous: -gnosis | Knowledge |
