Medical Terminology / Unit 9 MedTerm 0540 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-ptysis: Spitting
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The idea
The suffix ptysis names spitting or coughing up material from the airway.
In practice
Hemoptysis is the coughing up of blood.
Where people slip
The initial p is silent here too, and the suffix is spoken tih sis.
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