Suffixes: Adjective, Noun, Diminutive, Singular, Plural

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Suffixes Adjective, Noun, Diminutive, Singular,
Plural

• HLSC 2613 Medical Terminology
• Chapter 3

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Student Objectives

• Define diminutive suffixes.
• Define adjective suffixes.
• Define noun suffixes.
• Define the rules for changing singular words to
  plural words.

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Adjective Suffixes

• -ac cardi/ac
• -al neur/al
• -ar muscul/ar
• -ary saliv/ary
• -eal mening/eal

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Noun Suffixes

• -ia pneumonia
• -ism condition alcoholism
• -y urologist
• -iatrics, -iatry treatment, pediatrics
  medicine podiatry
• -ist specialist urologist

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Diminutive Suffixes

• -icle particle
• -ole arteriole
• -ula macula
• -ule venule

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Plural Suffixes

• pleura pleurae
• thorax thoraces
• lumen lumina
• diagnosis diagnoses
• appendix appendices

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Plural Suffixes

• ganglion ganglia
• bacterium bacteria
• bronchus bronchi
• deformity deformities
• carcinoma carcinomata

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End of Lesson Three