Medical Assistant Prep / Unit 2 MAS 038 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Suffixes That Name Conditions
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The idea
Other suffixes tell you that a word names a condition.
In practice
Itis means inflammation; osis means a condition, usually abnormal; oma means tumor; pathy means disease; megaly means enlargement; emia means a blood condition; penia means a deficiency.
Where people slip
Oma does not by itself mean cancer. Many tumors are benign, so never voice an interpretation of a word like that to a patient.
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