Deck 3: Suffixes

Question 1

The suffix for skin is ________.

Answer 1

derma

Question 2

The suffix -oxia identifies: _________.

Answer 2

oxygen

Question 3

An excision or removal is a(an) _________.

Answer 3

ectomy

Question 4

The suffix that means a substance that produces or causes is __________.

Question 5

_______________ is the percentage of volume of a blood sample that is composed of cells after separation.

Question 6

Intentional breaking of a bone is _______________.

Question 7

Turning backward is _______________.

Question 8

An instrument used to view small objects is a _______________.

Question 9

Identify the suffix for separate.

A) -crit
B) -meter
C) -scopy
D) -gen

Question 10

Identify the suffix for binding.

A) -phoria
B) -dynia
C) -desis
D) -algia

Question 11

Identify the suffix for toward.

A) -ad
B) -clast
C) -stat
D) -tropy

Question 12

Identify the suffix for condition of cells.

A) -penia
B) -pathy
C) -cytosis
D) -opia

Question 13

Identify the suffix for skin.

A) -uria
B) -derma
C) -emic
D) -globulin

Question 14

Identify the suffix for breaking.

A) -clasis
B) -blast
C) -stat
D) -oid

Question 15

Identify the suffix for swelling.

A) -ema
B) -edema
C) -ism
D) -iasis

Question 16

Identify the suffix for producing.

A) -rrhea
B) -para
C) -parous
D) -pnea

Question 17

Identify the suffix for production.

A) -poiesis
B) -poietin
C) -para
D) -poietic

Question 18

Identify the suffix for movement.

A) -kinesia
B) -phobia
C) -phonia
D) -asthenia

Question 19

Identify the suffix for binding.

A) - phoria
B) -dynia
C) -desis
D) -phoria

Question 20

Identify the suffix for pertaining to.

A) -porosis
B) -poietic
C) -poiesis
D) -para

Question 21

Identify the suffix for removal.

A) -metry
B) -scope
C) -phil
D) -pheresis

Question 22

Identify the suffix for treatment.

A) -logist
B) -tropia
C) -ics
D) -ic

Question 23

Identify the suffix for deficiency.

A) -trophy
B) -plasty
C) -penia
D) -lysis

Question 24

Identify the suffix for enlargement.

A) -megaly
B) -sclerosis
C) -lysis
D) -stomy

Question 25

Identify the suffix for stopping.

A) -stasis
B) -oma
C) -plasia
D) -cyte

Question 26

Identify the suffix for expanding.

A) -trophy
B) -ectasis
C) -emesis
D) -tripsy

Question 27

Identify the suffix for to form a new opening.

A) -stenosis
B) -stomy
C) -oid
D) -stosis

Question 28

Identify the suffix for resembling.

A) -oid
B) -emesis
C) -stosis
D) -plasia

Question 29

Identify the suffix labor or birth.

A) -tocia
B) -gravida
C) -parous
D) -logy

Question 30

Identify the suffix for to practice.

A) -logy
B) -pathy
C) -gensis
D) -praxia

Question 31

Identify the suffix for turning.

A) -version
B) -pnea
C) -sthenia
D) -malacia

Question 32

Identify the suffix for numbness.

A) -phasia
B) -paresis
C) -plegia
D) -algia

Question 33

Identify the suffix for speech.

A) -lexia
B) -phasia
C) -malacia
D) -phage

Question 34

Identify the suffix for lessening in density.

A) -malacia
B) -porosis
C) -philia
D) -lepsy

Question 35

Identify the suffix for eating.

A) -phage
B) -pnea
C) -penia
D) -paresis

Question 36

Identify the suffix for decrease in cell numbers.

A) -penia
B) -opia
C) -plegia
D) -clast

Question 37

Identify the suffix for vision.

A) -osis
B) -ptosis
C) -stenosis
D) -opia

Question 38

Identify the suffix for growing.

A) -stenosis
B) -physis
C) -clast
D) -opia

Question 39

Identify the suffix for immature tumor.

A) -oma
B) -ptosis
C) -blastoma
D) -malacia

Question 40

Identify the suffix for lack of strength.

A) -leptic
B) -mania
C) -stenia
D) -asthenia

Question 41

Identify the suffix for feeling.

A) -phoria
B) -mania
C) -leptic
D) -pnea

Question 42

Identify the suffix for breaking.

A) -blast
B) -clasis
C) -opia
D) -pnea