Diagnostic Suffixes
-gram
record, writing
-tomy
incision
blood condition
-emia
forming an opening (mouth)
-stomy
-phobia
fear
-graph
instrument for recording
-clasis
to break; surgical fracture
softening
-malacia
crushing
-tripsy
-megaly
enlargement
-scopy
visual examination
-ectomy
excision; removal
-oma
fixation (of an organ)
-pexy
-osis
abnormal condition
-scope
instrument for examining
-plasty
surgical repair
paralysis
-plegia
instrument to cut
-tome
-rrhexis
rupture
-graphy
process of recording
suture
vomiting
-emesis
binding; fixation (of a bone or joint)
-desis
-sclerosis
abnormal condition of hardening