Medical Suffixes and Their Meanings

pain (e.g., gastralgia - stomach pain)

weakness (e.g., myasthenia - muscle weakness)

protrusion (e.g., cystocele - protrusion of urinary bladder)

abnormal cell condition (too many) (e.g., erythrocytosis - too many red cells)

pain (e.g., cardiodynia - heart pain)

dilated (e.g., bronchiectasis - dilated bronchi)

swelling (e.g., lymphedema - lymphatic swelling)

vomiting (e.g., hematemesis - vomiting blood)

pertaining to vomiting (e.g., antiemetic - pertaining to against vomiting)

blood condition (e.g., leukemia - white [cell] blood condition)