Chapter 1: Medical Terminology Suffixes

-itis

• flow, discharge 
• enlargement
• bursting forth
• inflammation

abnormal condition

• -dynia
• -osis
• -rrhea
• -pathy

-algia

• pain
• rupture
• flow, discharge 
• to suture

-pathy

• a path
• enlargement
• disease
• pain

study of

• -logy

• -metry

• -rraphy

• -itis

-ic

• full of

• pertaining to

• to cut into

• resembling, like

tumor

• -ology

• -oma

• -ostomy

• -scopy

-scope

• instrument for examination

• study of something

• visual examination

• process of recording

pertaining to

• -ase
• -al
• -cyte
• -gen

cell

• -clast
• -blast
• -cyte
• -gram