Suffixes

• -ectomy: surgical removal
• -aemia: condition or state of blood
• -paenia little
• -itis inflammation
• -scope viewing instrument
• -spasm twitching
• -rrhexis rupture
• -rrhoea flow/discharge
• -phagia eating or swallowing
• -ptysis spitting
• -oma tumour or growth
• -tomy macking an incision
• -emesis vomiting