1. Is a short word part added to the end of a root to modify its meaning
Suffix
Is a short word part added to the end of a root to modify its meaning

2. Suffix 1 – Nouns: a person, place or thing
2 – Adjectives: words that modify nouns
3 – Plurals: ending that convert singles noun to multiples

3. Noun Suffixes

4. Suffix that means “condition of”
1 – Nouns: a person, place or thing
2 – Adjectives: words that modify nouns
3 – Plurals: ending that convert singles noun to multiples

5. Suffix that means “condition of”
Suffix Example
-ia phobia
-ism parasitism
-sis thrombosis
-y atony

6. Suffixes for “Medical specialists”
Suffix Example
-ian physician
-iatrics psychiatrics
-iatry pediatry
-ics obstetrics
-ist anesthetist
-logist psychologist

7. adjective Suffixes

8. Suffixes that means “Pertaining to”
Suffix Example
-ac Cardiac
-al Vocal
-ar nuclear
-ary salivary
-form cribriform
-ic anatomic
-ical electrical
-ile febrile
-oid lymphoid
-ory circulatory
-ous cutaneous

9. Suffixes that “forming plurals”

10. Plural endings Word ending Example Plural ending Example
-a Vertebra -ae Vertebrae
-en Lumen -ina Lumina
-ex, ix, yx Matrix -ices Matrices
-is Testis -es Testes
-ma Adenoma -mata Adenomata
-nx (anx, inx, ynx) Phalanx -nges Phalanges
-on Ganglion -a Ganglia
-um Serum -a Sera
-us Thrombus -I Thrombi