Unlocking Medical Terminology Chapter 3 Suffixes

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-al
Pretaining to
-elle
Small
-gen
Producing, formation, causing
-genesis
Origin, cause
-genic
Pretaining to producing, formation, causing
-ic
Pretaining to
-logist
One who studies
-logy
Study of
-oid
Resembling
-oma
Abnormal swelling, tumor
-osis
Condition of
-plasia
Shape, formation (its most common use is as a suffix, although the term includes a word root, plas, and a suffix, -ia)
-plasm
Something shaped (may also be used as a word root)
-sarcoma
Malignant tumor
-sis
State of