Language of Medicine 12th Edition
Suffixes and Prefixes Answered
-ary - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ase - ANSWER-enzyme
-cele - ANSWER-hernia
-centesis - ANSWER-surgical puncture to remove fluid
-chezia - ANSWER-defecation, elimination of wastes
-coccus -cocci - ANSWER-cluster clusters
-cyte - ANSWER-cell
-drome - ANSWER-run
-dynia - ANSWER-pain
-eal - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ectomy - ANSWER-excision, removal
-emia - ANSWER-blood condition
-er - ANSWER-one who
-fusion - ANSWER-coming together; to pour
-gen - ANSWER-substance that produces
-genesis - ANSWER-beginning; origin
-genic - ANSWER-pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
-globin - ANSWER-protein
-gram - ANSWER-record
-graph - ANSWER-writing
, -graphy - ANSWER-process of recording
-ia - ANSWER-condition
-iac - ANSWER-pertaining to
-iasis - ANSWER-abnormal condition
-ic -ical - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ion - ANSWER-process
-ior - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ism - ANSWER-process, condition
-ist - ANSWER-specialist
-itis - ANSWER-inflammation
-lapse - ANSWER-slide, fall, sag
-logy - ANSWER-process of study
-lysis - ANSWER-separation; destruction; loosening
-malacia - ANSWER-softening
-meter - ANSWER-measure
-mission - ANSWER-send
-mortum - ANSWER-death
-oid - ANSWER-resembling, derived from
-ole - ANSWER-little, small
-oma - ANSWER-tumor, mass, swelling
-opsy - ANSWER-process of viewing
-or - ANSWER-one who
-ose - ANSWER-pertaining to, full of
Suffixes and Prefixes Answered
-ary - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ase - ANSWER-enzyme
-cele - ANSWER-hernia
-centesis - ANSWER-surgical puncture to remove fluid
-chezia - ANSWER-defecation, elimination of wastes
-coccus -cocci - ANSWER-cluster clusters
-cyte - ANSWER-cell
-drome - ANSWER-run
-dynia - ANSWER-pain
-eal - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ectomy - ANSWER-excision, removal
-emia - ANSWER-blood condition
-er - ANSWER-one who
-fusion - ANSWER-coming together; to pour
-gen - ANSWER-substance that produces
-genesis - ANSWER-beginning; origin
-genic - ANSWER-pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
-globin - ANSWER-protein
-gram - ANSWER-record
-graph - ANSWER-writing
, -graphy - ANSWER-process of recording
-ia - ANSWER-condition
-iac - ANSWER-pertaining to
-iasis - ANSWER-abnormal condition
-ic -ical - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ion - ANSWER-process
-ior - ANSWER-pertaining to
-ism - ANSWER-process, condition
-ist - ANSWER-specialist
-itis - ANSWER-inflammation
-lapse - ANSWER-slide, fall, sag
-logy - ANSWER-process of study
-lysis - ANSWER-separation; destruction; loosening
-malacia - ANSWER-softening
-meter - ANSWER-measure
-mission - ANSWER-send
-mortum - ANSWER-death
-oid - ANSWER-resembling, derived from
-ole - ANSWER-little, small
-oma - ANSWER-tumor, mass, swelling
-opsy - ANSWER-process of viewing
-or - ANSWER-one who
-ose - ANSWER-pertaining to, full of