suffixes symptoms and diagnosis

Cards (24)

  • -stasis
    stopping, controlling
  • -spasm
    cramp or twitching
  • -rrhexis
    rupture
  • -rrhea
    flow, discharge
  • -rrhage or -rrhagia
    excessive discharge of blood
  • -ptosis
    prolapse, downward displacement
  • -phobia
    abnormal fear
  • -penia
    disease, deficiency
  • -pathy
    disease
  • -osis
    Condition (usually an abnormal condition, occasionally refers to an increase) Psychosis is a group of disorders affecting themind
  • -oma
    tumor
  • -iod
    resembling
  • -megaly
    enlargement
  • -mania
    oxcessive preoccupation
  • -malacia
    softening, soft
  • -ith
    stone or calculus
  • -itis
    inflammation
  • -ia, -iasis
    condition
  • -emia
    blood condition
  • -emesis
    vomiting
  • edema
    swelling
  • -ectasia, -ectasis
    dilatation, or the stretching of a body structure
  • -cele
    Hernia (results when organ pushes through the organ or muscle that contains it)
  • -algia, -dynia
    pain