What a Suffix Does to a Term

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A suffix determines what kind of thing a medical term names: a condition, a procedure, an instrument, or a specialty.

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The root cardi names the heart. Carditis is a disease, cardiectomy a surgery, cardiology a field of study.

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The root never changes what kind of term it is. That is the suffix's work alone.

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