Overview
Medical terms are built from combining elements: prefixes, roots and suffixes. This revision covers the commonest prefixes and roots and the suffixes of clinical procedures that are asked in the final exam.
Suffixes of procedures and conditions
The final-exam tables of the procedure suffixes are shown below. Also revise: -itis (inflammation), -osis (non-inflammatory condition), -oma (tumour), -algia (pain), -pathia (disease), -rrhagia (bleeding), -rrhoea (flow), -penia (deficiency), -aemia (condition of the blood), -uria (in the urine), -lysis (dissolution), -logia (study).
For the final exam you will be asked to write medical procedures that include these suffixes. They appear very frequently and some can easily be mixed up with each other so be sure to learn them all to avoid this. Below is a table with all the important suffixes. Good Luck!