Layman's term

Medical suffix

Layman's term

Medical suffix

blood

-emia

hardening

breakdown

-olysis

hemorrhage

-rrhagia

contraction

-spasm

incision

-otomy

crushing

inflammation

-itis

deficiency

-penia

like, similar

disease

-pathy

mental disorder

-phrenia

disease, condition

-osis

opening

-duct

dropping down

-ptosis

pain

-algia

enlarged

-megaly

pain

-dynia

enlargement

-ectasis

paralysis

-plegia

fear

-phobia

picture

-gram,-graph

finger, toe

-dactyl

picture, inspection

fixation (tissue)

-pexy

plastic surgery

flowing

-rrhea

puncture

growth (physical)