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GarryVolchara [31]
3 years ago
15

I don’t know the suffixes for the medical terminology

Medicine
1 answer:
Natasha2012 [34]3 years ago
7 0

A lot of these words are derived from the Greek or Latin roots that mean what the word is used to mean in English. It's helpful to look up the etymology or understand what these roots mean because they come up all the time and in different combinations. This way you can look at a word you've never seen before and know what it means by breaking it down into its component parts.

1. Surgical puncture to remove fluid = centesis

2. Inflammation = itis

3. Abnormal hardening = sclerosis

4. Surgical removal = ectomy

5. Vomit = emesis

6. Infection = sepsis

7. Involuntary contraction = spasm

8. Surgical opening = stomy

9. Specialist in = ologist

10. Process of recording = graphy

11. Instrument that records = graph

12. Oxygen = oxia

13. Seizure attack = ictal

14. Paralysis = plegia

15. Surgical repair = plasty

16. Disease = pathy

17. Study of = logy

18. Tumor = oma

19. Enlargement = megaly

20. Breathing = pnea

21. Malignant tumor = sarcoma

22. Narrowing = stenosis

23. Swallowing or eating = phagia

Rhinoplasty = surgical repair of the nose

Ateriosclerosis = abnormal hardening of the arteries

Neuropathy = disease of the nervous system

Postictal = after a seizure attack

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