Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0067 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-dynia: Pain
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The idea
The suffix dynia also names pain, and is interchangeable in meaning with algia.
In practice
Mastodynia is pain in the breast.
Where people slip
Which one a term uses is fixed by convention, not by rule. Neuralgia is standard; neurodynia is not.
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