| -ia | Condition, used in formation of names of many diseases. Compare: -ism. Origin: G. -ia, an ancient noun-forming suffix (05 Mar 2000) |
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| -iasis | A condition or state, especially an unhealthy one; in medical neologisms it has the same value as, and is sometimes interchangeable with, G. -osis. Origin: G. Suffix forming nouns from verbs (05 Mar 2000) |
| -iatrics | Suffix meaning healing. From the Greek iatros meaning healer or physician. Paediatrics is the healing of children. And geriatrics is the healing (or at least the treatment) of disorders characteristic of the aged. (12 Dec 1998) |
| -iatry | Suffix meaning medical treatment. From the Greek iatreia meaning healing, which came from iatros meaning treatment (or physician). Psychiatry is literally the medical treatment of the psyche. (12 Dec 1998) |