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L2 Medical Terminology

The document provides information on suffixes in medical terminology, explaining their role in forming nouns and adjectives. It emphasizes the importance of suffixes in defining medical terms and categorizing them by specialties and conditions. Additionally, it includes examples of suffixes and their applications in medical contexts.

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L2 Medical Terminology

The document provides information on suffixes in medical terminology, explaining their role in forming nouns and adjectives. It emphasizes the importance of suffixes in defining medical terms and categorizing them by specialties and conditions. Additionally, it includes examples of suffixes and their applications in medical contexts.

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Instructor information
• Contact: Doctor Aya Ahmad Elnegery
• Department. Medical Microbiology and Immunology
• Official email: [email protected]
• Mobile: 01060345452
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1. Define suffixes.
2. State the rule for using suffixes in words.
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■ A suffix makes a word either a noun or an adjective. When

the noun ending –um is attached to the word root duoden,


Suffixes

the newly created word duodenum is a noun.

■ When the adjective ending -al is attached to the same word

root, the new word becomes the adjective duodenal.


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■ Suffixes indicate (among other things) surgical procedures, types of

surgeries, spe-cialties, specialists, and conditions.


Suffixes

■ Defining medical terms usually begins with the meaning of the suffix.

■ For example, the definition of gastritis begins with defining the suffix

first, followed by defining the word root. Therefore, the definition of

gastritis is “inflammation of the stomach.”


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Noun suffixes
■ Most of the suffixes in this chapter make a word a noun.

■ Nouns are words used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or

action. They can be categorized by their relationship to specialties,

surgeries, specialists, conditions, and so on.


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Plural words
When a word changes from singular to plural form, the ending of the word
also changes.

For example, you may have only one crisis (singular) or you may have many
crises (plural).
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Adjectives suffixes
 Adjectives are words that modify nouns by limiting, qualifying, or
specifying.
 Adjective suffixes are normally used to describe the root word to which they
are attached.
 They usually mean “pertaining to,” “relating to,” “characterized by,” or
“resembling.” There are no specific rules governing which adjective endings
go with which words.
 Sometimes more than one ending will work with the same word root.
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Specialties and/or
specialists
Suffixes that indicate specialties and/or
specialists are presented throughout the
study of medical terminology, particularly
as you learn more about specialties,
subspecialties, and the physicians who
choose to pursue these specialties as
lifelong careers.
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The following suffixes indicate some type of
instrument or a surgical or diagnostic
procedure.
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Suffixes commonly used
Listing of some suffixes commonly used in medical terminology is
included here for easy reference
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Thank you!
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