Chapter Three: Essentials of Medical Terminology

Medical terminology suffixes

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Roots and prefixes used to build medical terms
Acr/o
Top; extremeties
Carcin/o
Cancer
Don/o
Donates
Flour/o
Luminous
Glyc/o
Sugar
Pharmac/o
Drug
Physi/o
Nature
Practition/o
Practice
Sect/o
Cut
Suffixes used to indicate pathologic conditions, pathology means the study of disease processes
Suffixes used to describe disease, symptoms, or abnormalities
-algia
Pain
Cepahl/o
Head
Cephalgia
Headache
Arthr/o
Joint