Most Common Suffixes
Suffixes for 'Processes'
Noun Based Suffixes
Procedures
Root Words
100
enzyme

-ase

100

-uria

urinating

100

-oma

tumor

100

-ectomy

excision

removal

100

Noci

Pain

Injury

200

Oxygen

-xia

200

-phagolia

to eat

200

disease

-pathy

200

-otomy

incision

cutting

200

Psychro

Cold

300

-capnea

Carbon Dioxide

300

-dipsolia

to drink

300

condition

-osis

300

-ostomy

make a hole

300

Chole

Bile

400

Air

-pnea

400

digestion

-pepsia

400

-emia

related to blood condition

400

process of recording

-graphy

400

Hidro

Sweating

500

Love of

-philia

500

lowered position of an organ

-stosis

500

-lith

stone

500

surgical repair

-plasty

500

Steato

Fatty Tissue