The document discusses medical suffixes related to the nervous system. It provides definitions and examples for suffixes that indicate pain or sensitivity (-algia), feeling or sensitivity (-asthesia), weakness (-paresis), speech (-phasia), paralysis (-plegia), and muscle coordination (-taxia). For each suffix, a definition is given as well as an example medical term and breakdown of the word building.

1. The Nervous System:
SUFFIXES

2.  Definition:
 Pain, Sensitivity
 Example:
 Analgesia: A reduction in the perception of pain or
sensation due to a neurological condition or
medication.
 Word Building:
 An-, without
 -algesia, pain or sensitivity

3.  Definition:
 Feeling, Sensitivity
 Example:
 Anesthetic- Substance that produces a lack of
feeling that may be local or general in effect.
 Word Building:
 An, without
 -asthesia, feeling, sensitivity
 -ic, pertaining to

4.  Definition:
 Weakness
 Example:
 Hemiparesis- Weakness or loss of motion of one
side of the body.
 Word Building:
 Hemi, half
 -paresis, weakness

5.  Definition:
 Speech
 Example:
 Dysphasia- Impairment of speech due to a brain
lesion.
 Word Building:
 Dys, painful, difficult
-phasia, speech

6.  Definition
 Paralysis
 Example:
 Quadriplegia- Paralysis of all four extremities.
 Word Building:
 Quadr/o, four
 -plegia, paralysis

7.  Definition:
 Muscle coordination
 Example:
 Ataxia- Having a lack of muscle coordination due
to a condition or disease.
 Word Building:
 A-, without
 -taxia, muscle coordination