QUICK ACCESS TABLE FOR SUFFIXES

(Definition to Suffix)

DEFINITION SUFFIX

abnormal fear -phobia

action; process -ion

activity; practice -praxia

attracted to; tendency toward -philia

bearing offspring -para

beginning -arche

binding or surgical fusion -desis

blood -emia

a “body” of a specified sort -some

to break -clast, -clastic

breathing -pnea

carbohydrate -ose

cell -cyte

characteristic of -an

chest -thorax

condition of -esis

condition, noun ending -ia

condition; theory -ism

condition -osis

condition -sis
condition involving cells of the blood -cythemia

condition of carbon dioxide content in the -capnia

blood

condition of the mind or will -thymia

containing protein -globin

crushing; breaking up -clasis

decrease in; deficiency -penia

destruction; detachment -lysis

destruction -lytic

discharge, flow -rrhea

disease -pathy

drainage -rrhea

drooping or prolapse -optosis

drooping or prolapse -ptosis

to eat -phage

to eat -phagia

embryonic stage of development -blast

emotional state -phoria

enlargement -megaly

enzyme -ase

to evaluate -assay

excessive flow or discharge -rrhage

excessive flow or discharge -rrhagia

formation; production -poiesis

growth, growing -physis

incision into -otomy

incision into -tomy

inflammation -itis

an instrument used to measure -meter

an instrument used to record -graph

an instrument used to view -scope

intentional crushing -tripsy

to kill; to destroy -cide

labor -tocia

loss of strength -asthenia

to make; to treat or combine with -ize

medical treatment; medical profession -iatry

a mental disorder; madness -mania

to mold -plasm

movement -kinesis

noun ending -a

noun ending -e

noun ending -es

noun ending -is

noun ending -y
nourishment; development -trophy

one who -er

one who specializes -logist

one who treats; a physician -iatrician

one who treats; a physician -iatrist

pain -dynia

pain; suffering -algia

paralysis; stroke -plegia

partial paralysis -paresis

passage or pore -porosis

perforation -tresia

pertaining to -ac

pertaining to -al

pertaining to -ar

pertaining to -ary

pertaining to -eal

pertaining to -ectic

pertaining to -iac

pertaining to -ic

pertaining to -ical

pertaining to -ous

pertaining to -tic

pertaining to a condition -iatic

pertaining to; capable -ile

pertaining to; characterized by -ory

plate; flat plane -plakia

pleural ending -i

practitioner -ist

pregnancy -cyesis

pregnancy -gravida

presence of abnormal condition -iasis

presence or formation of stones -lithiasis

process of -tion

process of viewing -scopy

producing; forming -gen

producing; forming -gene

producing; forming -genesis

producing; forming -genic

reading -lexia

record; picture -gram

relating to medicine, physicians, or medical -iatric(s)

treatment

resembling -oid

rupture -rrhexis

secrete -crine
seizure; attack -lepsy

sensation or feeling -esthesia

sensitivity to pain -algesia

small or little -ole

small; little -ula

small one -ule

softening -malacia

something that -ate

specialist in a field of study -ician

specialist in field of study -ian

speech -phasia

spitting -ptysis

state of digestion -pepsia

stimulating effect of a hormone -tropin

stone; calculus -lith

stopping or controlling -stasis

strength -sthenia

stretching or dilatation -ectasia

the study of -logy

suffix indicating a singular noun -os

a suffix that identifies singular nouns -um

a suffix that identifies singular nouns -us

surgical fixation -pexy

surgical removal -ectomy

surgical repair -plasty

suturing -rrhaphy

swelling; herniation -cele

that which runs together -drome

the process of measuring -metry

the surgical creation of a new opening -stomy

thirst -dipsia

toward -ad

transmission -phoresis

treatment -therapy

tumor -oma

to turn -tropia

twitching; involuntary contraction -spasm

urine -uria

vision -opsia

to vomit -emesis

writing; record -graphy