Singular Endings
“is”
What is the singular ending of “es”?
“-er,-ist”
What suffix means “one who”?
“psych/o”
What is the combing form for “mind”?
“path/o”
What is the combing form for “disease”?
“-ectomy”
What means excision (surgical removal or cutting out)?
“oste/o”
What means bone?
“bi/o”
What means life or living?
“-algia,-dynia”
What means “pain”?
“-edema”
What means “swelling”?
“-oma”
What means “tumor”?
“-ose”
What means “sugar”?
“-pyr/o”
What means “fire”?
“um”
What is the singular ending of “a”?
“-iatrician”
What suffix means “practitioner”?
“ne/o, nat/o”
What is the combing form for “new, birth”?
“cardi/o”
What is the combing form for “heart”?
“-plasty”
What means surgical repair?
“append/o, appendic/o”
What means appendix?
“muscul/o, my/o”
What means muscle?
“-emesis”
What means “vomiting”?
“-emia”
What means “condition of the blood”?
“-ia,-iasis”
What means “condition”?
“-an, -al, -an, --ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic”
What means “pertaining to”?
“-micro/o”
What means “small”?
“us”
What is the singular ending of “i”?
“-logist”
What suffix means “one who studies; specialist”?
“dermat/o”
What is the combing form for “skin”?
“ur/o”
What is the combing form for “urinary tract (or urine)”?
“-lysis”
What means the process of loosening, freeing, or destroying?
“cerebr/o, encephala/o”
What means brain?
“mamm/o, mast/o”
What means breast?
“-itis”
What means “inflammation”?
“-lith”
What means “stone or calculus”?
“-phobia”
What means “abnormal fear”?
“-ia, -ism”
What means “condition or theory”?
“-lact/o”
What means “milk”?
“a”
What is the singular ending of “ae”?
“-ac, -al, -ic, -ical”
What suffix means “pertaining to”?
“ped/o”
What is the combing form for “child, foot”?
“orth/o, ped/o”
What is the combing form for “straight, child”?
“-tomy”
What means an incision (cutting into tissue)?
“cutane/o, derm/a, deramat/o”
What means skin?
“pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o”
What means lungs?
“-pathy”
What means “disease”?
“-oid”
What means “resembling”?
“-malacia”
What means “soft, softening”?
“-iac”
What means “one who suffers”?
“-glyc/o”
What means “sugar”?
“ix”
What is the singular ending of “ices”?
“-logic, -logical”
What suffix means “pertaining to the study of”?
“gastr/o, enter/o”
What is the combing form for “stomach, intestine”?
“rhin/o”
What is the combing form for “nose”?
“-stomy”
What means formation of an opening?
“tonsill/o”
What means tonsil?
“faci/o”
What means face?
“-mania”
What means “excessive preoccupation”?
“-megaly”
What means “enlargement”?
“-spasm”
What means “twitching, cramping”?
“-opia”
What means “vision”?
“-adip/o, -lip/o”
What means “fat”?
“ex”
What is the singular ending of “ices”?
“-iatrics, -iatry”
What suffix means “medical profession or treatment”?
“ger/a, ger/o, geront/o”
What is the combing form for “elderly”?
“obstetr/o”
What is the combing form for “midwife”?
“-scopy”
What means visual examination with a lighted instrument (not always a surgical procedure)?
“col/o”
What means colon or large intestine?
“trache/o”
What means trachea (windpipe)?
“-rrhea”
What means “flow or discharge”?
“-cele”
What means “hernia”
“-osis”
What means “condition (often an abnormal condition; sometimes an increase”?
“-able, -ible”
What means “capable of, able to”?
“-lith/o”
What means “stone”?
“ax”
What is the singular ending of “aces”?
“-logy”
What suffix means “study or science of”?
“gynec/o”
What is the combing form for “female”?
“radi/o”
What is the combing form for “radiation (or radius)”?
“-pexy”
What means surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)?
“hepat/o”
What means liver?
“vas/o”
What means vessel; ductus, deferens
“-ectacsia,-extasis”
What means “dilatation”?
“-stasis”
What means “stopping, controlling”?
“-penia”
What means “prolapse (sagging)”?
“-y”
What means “state or condition”?
“-muc/o”
What means “mucus”?
“ma”
What is the singular ending of “s or mata”?
“immun/o”
What is the combing form for “immune”?
“ophthalm/o”
What is the combing form for “eye”?
“-tome”
What means an instrument used for cutting?
“chir/o”
What means hand?
“angi/o”
What means gland?
“-rrhage, -rrhagia”
What means “excessive bleeding or hemorrhage”?
“-rrhexis”
What means “rupture”?
“-eum,-ium”
What means “membrane”?
“-ous”
What means “pertaining to or characterized by”?
“-prote/o, protein/o”
What means “protein”?
“nx”
What is the singular ending of “nges”?
“ot/o, laryng/o”
What is the combing form for “ear, larynx”?
“crin/o”
What is the combing form for “to secrete”?
“-centesis”
What means surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid?
“blephar/o”
What means eyelid?
“myel/o”
What means bone marrow or spinal cord?
“-hemat/o”
What means “blood”?
“on”
What is the singular ending of “a”?
“neur/o”
What is the combing form for “nerve”?
“rheumat/o”
What is the combing form for “rheumatism”?
“tripsy”
What means surgical crushing?
“onc/o”
What is the combing form for “tumor”?
“esthesi/o”
What is the combing form for “feeling or sensation”?
“-rrhaphy”
What means suture (uniting a wound by stitches)?