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3. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Learning Outcomes Recognize how suffixes are used when building medical words. Identify adjective, noun, and diminutive suffixes. Be aware of suffixes that have more than one meaning.

4. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Learning Outcomes Recognize suffixes that pertain to pathological conditions. Identify selected suffixes common to surgical and diagnostic procedures. Analyze, build, spell, and pronounce medical words.

5. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Overview of Suffixes Suffix means to fasten on, beneath, or under. A suffix can be a syllable or group of syllables united with or placed at the end of a word to alter or modify the meaning of the word or to create a new word. A suffix is connected to a root or to a combining form to make new words.

6. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Overview of Suffixes A compound suffix is made up of more than one word component. It too is added to a root or a combining form to modify its meaning. Whenever you change the suffix, you alter the meaning of the word to which it is attached.

7. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Overview of Suffixes The following guidelines pertain to suffixes: – If the suffix begins with a vowel, drop the combining vowel from the combining form and add the suffix. – If the suffix begins with a consonant, keep the combining vowel and add the suffix to the combining form.

8. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Overview of Suffixes The following guidelines pertain to suffixes: – Keep the combining vowel between two or more roots in a term. – When giving the meaning of the word or reading its definition, you usually begin with the meaning of the suffix.

9. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice General Use Suffixes All suffixes, when written, are preceded by a hyphen (–) to signify that they are to be linked to the end of a root or combining form.

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14. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Grammatical Suffixes Those suffixes that can be attached to a word root to form a part of speech, especially a noun or adjective, or to make a medical word singular or plural in form. Suffixes are also used to indicate a diminutive form of a word that specifies a smaller version of the object indicated by the word root.

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21. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Table 2.6 (continued) Selected Suffixes That Pertain To Pathological Conditions

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23. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Table 2.6 (continued) Selected Suffixes That Pertain To Pathological Conditions

24. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Table 2.6 (continued) Selected Suffixes That Pertain To Pathological Conditions

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28. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Table 2.7 (continued) Selected Suffixes Used in Surgical and Diagnostic Procedures

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30. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Audio Pronunciations Abrasion Anesthetize Arousal Asymmetrical Asystole

31. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Audio Pronunciations Comatose Epithelium Exogenous Grandiose grand/i -ose = great = pertaining to

32. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Audio Pronunciations Gynecoid Hypertrophy Infection Irregular Nasolabial

33. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Audio Pronunciations Palpate Steroid Trauma Turgor turg -or = swelling = one who

34. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Suffix Match Up Quiz 1.-cidea. formation 2.-genb. flow 3.-plegiac. rupture 4.-rrhead. to kill 5.-rrhexise. paralysis

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36. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice A suffix that means pain is: A.-algia B.-cide C.-dipsia D.-stasis

37. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice A suffix that means pain is: A.-algia B.-cide C.-dipsia D.-stasis

38. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -dipsia means: A.point B.forming C.thirst D.to separate

39. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -dipsia means: A.point B.forming C.thirst D.to separate

40. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Which of the following is not a suffix? A.-an B.-ase C.-ate D.-al

41. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Which of the following is not a suffix? A.-an B.-ase C.-ate D.-al

42. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -ism means: A.mind B.resemble C.condition D.spitting

43. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -ism means: A.mind B.resemble C.condition D.spitting

44. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -kinesis means: A.hearing B.motion C.seizure D.swelling

45. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -kinesis means: A.hearing B.motion C.seizure D.swelling

46. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -malacia means madness. A.True B.False

47. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -malacia means. The suffix -malacia means madness. A.True B.False

48. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice When giving the meaning of a word, you usually begin with the meaning of the suffix. A.True B.False

49. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice When giving the meaning of a word, you usually begin with the meaning of the suffix. A.True B.False

50. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Nasolabial means pertaining to the nose and mouth. A.True B.False

51. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Nasolabial means pertaining to the nose and mouth. A.True B.False

52. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -gram means an instrument used for recording. A.True B.False

53. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -gram means an instrument used for recording. A.True B.False

54. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Suffixes can have more than one meaning. A.True B.False

55. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice Suffixes can have more than one meaning. A.True B.False

56. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix for enlargement is -megaly. A.True B.False

57. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix for enlargement is -megaly. A.True B.False

58. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix for swelling is -edema. A.True B.False

59. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix for swelling is -edema. A.True B.False

60. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice An abrasion may be the result of trauma, such as a skinned knee. A.True B.False

61. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice An abrasion may be the result of trauma, such as a skinned knee. A.True B.False

62. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -systole means dilation. A.True B.False

63. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice The suffix -systole means dilation. A.True B.False

64. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice If the suffix begins with a consonant, keep the combining vowel and add the suffix to the combining form. A.True B.False

65. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice If the suffix begins with a consonant, keep the combining vowel and add the suffix to the combining form. A.True B.False

66. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice A noun suffix that means specialist is: A.-ive B.-ist C.-ism D.-ior

67. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice A noun suffix that means specialist is: A.-ive B.-ist C.-ism D.-ior

68. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice In the word cardiac, -ac is an adjective suffix that means: A.condition B.treatment C.pertaining to D.small

69. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice In the word cardiac, -ac is an adjective suffix that means: A.condition B.treatment C.pertaining to D.small

70. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice In the word edematous, -ous is an adjective suffix that means: A.pain B.minute C.discharge D.pertaining to

71. Copyright ©2012 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Medical Terminology: A Word-Building Approach, Seventh Edition Jane Rice In the word edematous, -ous is an adjective suffix that means: A.pain B.minute C.discharge D.pertaining to