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Examples in Medicine in Greek Nomenclature - Medical terms and Greek suffixes accompanying
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Suffixes
- -ectomy surgical removal of ("act of cutting out")
- vasectomy
- -tomy surgical operation on, surgical cutting of
- lobotomy
- -path one who suffers from a disease of, one who treats a disease
- psychopath
- -pathy disease of, treatment of disease of or by
- otopathy
- -mania madness about, passion for
- pyromania
- -maniac one having a madness or passion for
- nymphomaniac
- -phobia abnormal fear or hatred of
- arachnophobia
- -phobe one who fears or hates (abnormally)
- homophobe
- -emia condition of the blood, congestion of blood in
- septicemia
- -iasis diseased condition (often caused by parasites)
- hypochondriasis
- -itis inflammation of, inflammatory disease of
- colitis
- -ium part, lining or enveloping tissue, region
- Pericardium, myocardium
- -oma tumor of, swelling containing, tumor
- Carcinoma, sarcoma
- -osis diseased condition of, illness, act of, process of
- halitosis (mitosis)
- -rrh(o)ea abnormal discharge
- diarrhea
- -therapy treatment of or by
- Electrotherapy, psychotherapy