Welcome to our medical suffix flashcards! Medical terminology can be a very difficult skill to hone. There are many complicated terms that you will need to be very familiar with if you are considering becoming a nurse or a doctor. In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes termed postfix or ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.
We know that this is a very tricky subject, but luckily for you we have done all of the research! We have gathered up all of the data and split it up into three different sections to help you learn why medical suffixes are important and help you to identify what complicated words mean by teaching you what sections of the large word means. Good luck!