Digestive System Terminology - additional suffixes

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Created Feb 18, 2010
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-ectasis -ectasia        
 
stretching dialation widening      
2
-emesis      
 
vomiting      
3
-lysis      
 
breakdown distruction    
4
-pepsia      
 
digestion      
5
-phagia      
 
eating swallowing    
6
-plasty      
 
surgica repair      
7
-ptosis          
 
droop sag protrude    
8
-rrhage -rrhagia      
 
bursting forth of blood      
9
-rrhaphy      
 
suture      
10
-rrhea      
 
flow discharge    
11
-spasm        
 
sudden involuntary contraction of muscles      
12
-stasis      
 
to stop control    
13
-stenosis      
 
tightening narrowing    
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-tresia      
 
opening      

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