Disease and symptoms
15 suffixes. Read them through, then practice: a question on each, then words to take apart and build. 19 questions, about 5 minutes.
Free, and no account needed.
In this lesson
The suffixes and what they mean
- -itis
- inflammation
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- -emia
- blood condition, in the blood
- -algia
- pain
- -dynia
- pain
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -pathy
- disease
- -oma
- tumor, swelling
- -penia
- deficiency, abnormally low number
- -plasia
- formation, development
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- -rrhage, -rrhagia
- excessive bleeding or flow
- -lysis
- breakdown, destruction, separation
- -malacia
- softening
- -somy
- chromosome bodies (copies of one chromosome)