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-kinesis [from Greek kinesis motion] Motion (cytokinesis).
-labial [from Latin labium lip] Pertaining to the lips (buccogingival).
-lagos or -lagus [from Greek lagos hare] Hare (Dendrolagus = "tree hare," the generic name for tree kangaroos).
-lalia or -laly [from Greek lalia chatter] Denotes a speech disorder of a type suggested by the prefix, especially one involving articulation of sounds (echolalia).
-lemma [Greek lemma rind, husk] Covering, sheath, membrane, envelope (axolemma).
-lepis [Greek lepis flake, scale] In taxonomic names: Denotes flake(s) or scale(s) (Quercus chrysolepis).
-lepsia or -lepsis or -lepsy [from Greek lepsis seizure] Seizure (epilepsy).
-less [from Old English leas devoid, untrue] (1) lacking, free from, without (airless, childless, venomless, countless); (2) unable to be affected by (tireless).
-lite or -lith [from Greek lithos stone] Stone, calculus (gastrolith, phytolith).
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-logia See: -logy.
-logist [from Greek logos explanation, law, theory, reasoning, speech] Specialist in the study of the thing indicated by the root or prefix (biologist).
-logy or -logia [from Greek logos explanation, law, theory, reasoning, speech] Doctrine, theory, discipline, science or study of the thing indicated by the root or prefix (biology, pathology, zoology).
-lumbar [from Latin lumbus loins] Denotes the loins (sacrolumbar).
-lyse See: -lyze.
-lysis [from Greek lysis loosing, breaking up, parting, releasing] Destruction, disintegration, decomposition, breaking up (autolysis, catalysis).
-lyte [from Greek lysis loosing, breaking up, parting, releasing] Product of breakdown or decomposition (electrolyte).
-lytic [from Greek lysis loosing, breaking up, parting, releasing] Destroying, loosening, causing disintegration or decomposition (cytolytic, catalytic).
-lyze (British: -lyse) [from Greek lysis loosing, breaking up, parting, releasing] Undergo or cause to undergo decomposition or disintegration (catalyze).
-ma See: -oma.
-malacia [from Greek malaxis softening] Denotes softening of the thing indicated by the root or prefix (hepatomalacia).
-mania [from Latin mania mania, mental disorder] Mania, obsession (dipsomania).
-megaly [from Greek megas, megale big, great, full-grown, vast, high] Denotes enlargement of the thing indicated by the root or prefix (hepatomegaly).
-mer or -meride [from Greek meros share, portion, part] Something having the number or type of segments or parts indicated by the root or prefix (dimer).
-mere [from Greek meros share, portion, part] Portion or segment of the type indicated by the root or prefix (centromere).
-meris [from Greek meros share, portion, part] (in taxonomic names) One having part(s) or segment(s) of the type or number indicated by the root or prefix (Trimeris).
-mery [from Greek meros share, portion, part] State or condition of having part(s) or segment(s) of the type or number indicated by the root or prefix (dimeric).
-meter [from Greek metron measure, rule] (1) instrument measuring the thing indicated by the root or prefix (thermometer); (2) a length consisting of the number of meters indicated by the root or prefix (kilometer).
-metra [from Greek metra uterus] Of or relating to the uterus (physometra).
-metrium (pl metria) [from Greek metra uterus] Denotes a part or layer of the uterus (endometrium).
-metry [from Greek metron measure, rule] Measurement, or the profession of measuring, the thing indicated by the root or prefix (optometry).
-mimesis [from Greek mimeomai to mimic, imitate, repressent] Mimicking the condition indicated by the root or prefix (necromimesis).
-morph [from Greek morphe form, shape, kind, sort] Having the form, being of the type indicated by the root or prefix (lagomorph).
-myia [from Greek myia fly] Denotes a fly or flylike insect (Lutzomyia).
-mys [from Greek mys mouse] Denotes a mouse or mouselike animal (Oenomys).
-myxa [from Greek myxa mucus] One(s) composed of slime of the type indicated by the root or prefix (Pelomyxa).
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