Diagnostic and Therapeutic Terminology (Greek or Latin terminology)

Question 1

IATR/O
(ī‐a‐trō)

‐IATRY
(ī‐ă‐trē)

Answer 1

Current Uses:
Medicine, physician
medical treatment

Etymology:
Gr. iatros, physician, healer
iatreia, medicine, healing

Ex: Iatrogenic, psychiatry

Question 2

MEDIC/O
(mĕd‐ĭ‐kō)

Answer 2

Current Usage: Medicine, medical treatment

Ety: L. medicus, ‐i, m. physician; medicine, healer

Ex: Medicochirurgical, medication

Question 3

THERAP/O
(thĕr‐ă‐pō)

THERAPEUT/O
(thĕr‐ă‐pū‐tō)

‐THERAPY
(ther‐ă‐pē)

Answer 3

Current Usage: Treatment

Ety: Gr. therapeuein, to take care of, to heal, to treat
Gr. therapeutike, treatment
‐therapy, treatment

Ex: Therapist, therapeutic,
aromatherapy

Question 4

PHARMAC/O
(făr‐mă‐kō)

PHARMACEUTIC/O
(făr‐mă‐sū‐tĭ‐kō)

Answer 4

Current Usage: Drugs, medicine

Ety:
Gr. pharmakon, a drug, poison
Gr. pharmakeutikos, by means of a drug or poisons

Ex: Pharmacochemistry,
pharmaceutical

Question 5

DIET/O
(dī‐ĕ‐tō)

Answer 5

Current Usage: Food

Ety: Gr. diaita, way of living/regimen; diet

Ex: Dietitian

Question 6

CHIRURGIC/O
(kĭ‐rŭr‐jĭ‐kō)

Answer 6

Current Usage: Surgery

Ety:
Gr. chirurgia, surgery

Ex: Odontochirurgical

Question 7

LOG/O
(log‐ō)

‐LOGY
(lŏ‐jē)

Answer 7

Current Usage: Word, speech, The study of

Ety: Gr. logos, word, speech, reason, thought of

Ex: Logorrhea, arthrology

Question 8

NOM/O
(nŏ‐mō)

‐NOMY
(nŏ‐mē)

Answer 8

Current Usage: Law, custom
Knowledge/laws of

Ety: Gr. nomos, law, custom

Ex: Ergonomics, taxonom

Question 9

PHYSI/O
(fĭz‐ē‐ō)

PHYSIC/O
(fĭz‐ĭ‐kō‐kō)

Answer 9

Current Usage: Nature, growth, function

Physical, natural

Ety: Gr. physis, nature, growth, function

Gr. physikos, of nature

Ex: Physiognomy, physicochemical

Question 10

TECHN/O
(tek‐nō)

Answer 10

Current Usage: Art, skill

Ety: Gr. techne, art, skill, craft

Ex: Technology, technophobic

Question 11

ERG/O
(ĕr‐gō)

‐ERGASIA
(ĕr‐gā‐sē‐ă)

Answer 11

Current Usage: Work, function

Ety: Gr. ergon, work

Ex: Synergic, hyperergasia