Ch. 25 Medical Terminology

Question 1

How many root words can you find in a medical term?

Answer 1

One or more

Question 2

What is an Eponym?

Answer 2

A treatment or disorder that is named after the person who studied or discovered it.

Question 3

Who was know as the “Father of Medicine?”

Answer 3

Imhotep (Egyptian)

Question 4

Hippocrates was the “Father of Modern Medicine” and the “Father of ?”

Answer 4

Clinical Medicine

Question 5

What 2 languages are medical term as typically derived from and why?

Answer 5

Greek and Latin. Greeks were the first to systematically study the field of medicine (including anatomy) and to develop a suitable vocabulary. Latin then continued as the language of science, the law, and the Church throughout Western Europe until the eighteenth century.

Question 6

When dissecting a medical term, what is the first step you would take?

Answer 6

Begin at the end of the word with the suffix and then follow your way back to the beginning of the word.

Question 7

Most of the basic compound of a word and it is the basis on which the meaning of a work is constructed.

Answer 7

Root

Question 8

Andr

Answer 8

Male = Greek

Question 9

Glyc

Answer 9

Glucose, sugar

Question 10

Lactic

Answer 10

Milk = Latin

Question 11

Hydr

Answer 11

Water = Greek

Question 12

Cerebr

Answer 12

Of or pertaining to the brain = Latin

Question 13

Sangui

Answer 13

Denotes blood = Latin

Question 14

Strat (strato)

Answer 14

Bed, blanket = Latin

Question 15

Cutis

Answer 15

Skin = Latin

Question 16

Derm (dermat)

Answer 16

Skin = Greek

Question 17

Modify root words by either qualifying or quantifying them.

Answer 17

Prefixes

Question 18

Retro

Answer 18

Backwards, back = Latin

Question 19

Hypo

Answer 19

Less = Greek

Question 20

Hydr

Answer 20

Water = Greek

Question 21

Hyper

Answer 21

More = Greek

Question 22

Sub

Answer 22

Under, somewhat = Latin

Question 23

Exo

Answer 23

Denotes something as ‘outside’another, external = Ancient Greek

Question 24

Inte (r)

Answer 24

Between, among = Latin

Question 25

Poly

Answer 25

Many, much, too much, excessive = Greek

Question 26

Appears at the end of a word and modifies a word's meaning. Also helps make the word an adjective, a verb, or a noun.

Answer 26

Suffix

Question 27

Ism

Answer 27

Condition, state of being

Question 28

Pathy

Answer 28

Denotes (with a negative sense) a disease or disorder = Ancient Greek

Question 29

Sis

Answer 29

Indicating a state or condition = Greek

Question 30

Logy

Answer 30

Study of

Question 31

Tomy

Answer 31

Act of cutting; incising, incision = Greek

Question 32

Lysis

Answer 32

Destruction, separation = Greek

Question 33

Cyte

Answer 33

Cell = Greek

Question 34

The resulting combination of a root word, a combining vowel, a prefix, a suffix, or any combination.

Answer 34

Combining Form

Question 35

A suffix that is added to a word to note smallness or being smaller than something else.

Answer 35

Diminutive Term

Question 36

Name a few suffixes that suggest a diminutive term.

Answer 36

Ole, idle, ucle (all meaning small, little, minute)

Question 37

What does a combining vowel (o) do?

Answer 37

A vowel used to combine root words with suffixes and prefixes

Question 38

Name 3 parts that a medical term may contain.

Answer 38

Root, Prefix, Suffix