Digestive System Terminology - additional suffixes Flashcards Table View

     

-ectasis -ectasia         stretching dialation widening      
-emesis       vomiting      
-lysis       breakdown distruction    
-pepsia       digestion      
-phagia       eating swallowing    
-plasty       surgica repair      
-ptosis           droop sag protrude    
-rrhage -rrhagia       bursting forth of blood      
-rrhaphy       suture      
-rrhea       flow discharge    
-spasm         sudden involuntary contraction of muscles      
-stasis       to stop control    
-stenosis       tightening narrowing    
-tresia       opening