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    This document provides a list of medical suffixes, their meanings, and examples of medical terminology using those suffixes. Some common suffixes and their meanings included -algia for pain, -cyte for cell, -ectomy for excision or removal, -emia for blood condition, -genic for pertaining to or produced by, and -logy for the process of study or science of. Examples are given for suffixes like -cardiac pertaining to the heart, -neural pertaining to the nerve system, and -ectomy for removal as in nephrectomy which is the removal of a kidney.

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    This document provides a list of medical suffixes, their meanings, and examples of medical terminology using those suffixes. Some common suffixes and their meanings included -algia for pain, -cyte for cell, -ectomy for excision or removal, -emia for blood condition, -genic for pertaining to or produced by, and -logy for the process of study or science of. Examples are given for suffixes like -cardiac pertaining to the heart, -neural pertaining to the nerve system, and -ectomy for removal as in nephrectomy which is the removal of a kidney.

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    This document provides a list of medical suffixes, their meanings, and examples of medical terminology using those suffixes. Some common suffixes and their meanings included -algia for pain, -cyte for cell, -ectomy for excision or removal, -emia for blood condition, -genic for pertaining to or produced by, and -logy for the process of study or science of. Examples are given for suffixes like -cardiac pertaining to the heart, -neural pertaining to the nerve system, and -ectomy for removal as in nephrectomy which is the removal of a kidney.

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    This document provides a list of medical suffixes, their meanings, and examples of medical terminology using those suffixes. Some common suffixes and their meanings included -algia for pain, -cyte for cell, -ectomy for excision or removal, -emia for blood condition, -genic for pertaining to or produced by, and -logy for the process of study or science of. Examples are given for suffixes like -cardiac pertaining to the heart, -neural pertaining to the nerve system, and -ectomy for removal as in nephrectomy which is the removal of a kidney.

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    SUFFIXES, MEANING, TERMINOLOGY

    SUFFIX MEANING TERMINOLOGY


    -ac Pertaining to.. Cardiac: PERTAINING TO
    THE HEART.
    -al Pertaining to.. Neural: PERTAINING TO
    THE NERVE SYSTEM.
    -algia pain Arthralgia: PAIN IN THE
    JOINTS
    -cyte cell Erythrocyte: red cells
    -ectomy Excision, removal Nephrectomy: removal
    kidney
    -emia Blood condition Leukemia: white blood
    condition
    -genic Pertaining to, produced Carcinogenic: pertaining
    by to the cancer
    -globin Protein Hemoglobin: blood
    protein
    -gram Record, photograph Electroencepahalogram:
    electricity record of the
    heart
    -ic, -ical Pertaining to Gastric: pertaining to
    the stomach
    -ion process Excision: cut the process
    Neurologic: science of
    the nerves
    -ist specialist Gynecologist: specialist
    the female system
    -istis inflammation Cystitis: inflammation of
    the cells
    -logy process of study, Science Endocrinology: science
    of… of the within secrets
    glands
    -oma Tumor, masss, swelling Hepatoma: tumor in the
    liver
    -opsy Process of viewing Biopsy: process of
    viwing life
    -osis Abnormal condition Nephrosis: kidney
    (slight increase in disease
    numbers when used
    with blood.
    Leucocytosis: high white
    blood cell count
    -pathy Disease, condition Enteropathy:
    clinicopathological
    condition by loss of
    protein
    Adenopathy: lymph
    node disease
    -scope Instrument to visually Endoscope: instrument
    examine for visual of the internal
    cavities or ducts of the
    -end within human body

    -scopy Process of visually Endoscopy: an


    examining with an examination of the
    endoscope inside of condition
    -sis Stade of; condition Prognosis: judgment
    that the doctor makes
    about the course,
    duration and cure of a
    disease
    -tomy Process of cutting, Osteotomy: incision
    incision process of the bone
    -y Process, condition Gastroenterology: Part
    of medicine which deals
    with disorders of the
    stomach and intestines.

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