This document discusses medical suffixes related to the nervous system. It explains that suffixes like -plegia refer to paralysis or stroke, -esthesia relates to sensation, -phagia describes types of eating, and -taxia involves order or arrangement of bodily movements. Examples are provided for each suffix category to illustrate common medical terms using these suffixes and their meanings.

1. NERVOUS SYSTEM
SUFFIXES
By: Molly Garrity

2. PLEGIA
• paralysis or a stroke
Examples:
• Cardioplegia (paralysis of the heart)
• Hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the
body)
• Paraplegia (paralysis of the legs)
• Quadriplegia (paralysis of all four
extremities).

3. HEMIPHEGIA

4. ESTHESIA
• Sensation
Example:
• Parasthesia - abnormal sensation, such a
tingling
• Anesthesia- total or partial loss of
sensation
• Hyperaesthesia-abnormal increase in
sensitivity to sensory stimuli

5. Administering ANESTHESIA

6. PHAGIA
• The eating of a specified substance or
eating in a specified manner
Examples
• Aphagia- Not able to eat
• Chthonophagia- the impulsive
consumption of dirt
• Dysphagia- swallowing is painful or
difficult

7. DYSPHAGIA:

8. TAXIA
• Order or arrangement
Examples
• Ataxia- the loss of full control of bodily
movements.
• Dystaxia- partial ataxia, a mild form of
ataxia, or the loss of full control of bodily
movements

9. ATAXIA: