Greek, Latin and Old English
Diagnostic Suffixes
Pathological Suffixes
Surgical Suffixes
Prefixes
100
An old English term meaning to suffer or undergo.
What is patient?
100
A suffix that means tumor or mass.
What is -oma?
100
A suffix that means pain.
What is -algia?
100
A suffix that means surgical removal.
What is -ectomy?
100
A prefix meaning slow.
What is brady- ?
200
A Latin term meaning to heal.
What is medical?
200
A suffix that means urine.
What is -uria?
200
A suffix that means accumulation of fluid in tissues.
What is -edema?
200
A suffix that means crushing.
What is -tripsy?
200
A prefix meaning large.
What is macro-?
300
An old English term meaning a single cycle of inhaling and exhaling.
What is breath?
300
A suffix that means to separate.
What is -dialysis?
300
A suffix that means vomiting.
What is -emesis?
300
A suffix that means surgical repair.
What is -plasty?
300
A prefix meaning four.
What is quardri-
400
A Latin word for a clear, sticky secretion.
What is mucus.
400
A suffix that means to flow profusely.
What is -rrhage?
400
A suffix that means to form or produce.
What is -genesis?
400
A suffix that means surgical puncture.
What is -centesis?
400
A prefix meaning rapid.
What is tachy-?
500
A Latin word meaning open or exposed.
What is patent?
500
A suffix that means an instrument for recording.
What is -graph?
500
A suffix that means inflammation.
What is -itis?
500
A suffix that means the surgical formation of an opening.
What is -stomy?
500
A prefix meaning after or behind.
What is post-?
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