Introduction 1 Flashcards
What word parts make up a medical term?
Prefixes, combining forms, and suffixes
Earliest medical practitioners spoke/wrote in what?
Greek and Latin
Medical terminology comes from what?
Word parts derived from early languages, modern languages, and eponyms
Basic word parts include
Roots, prefixes, and suffixes
Gastr
Stomach
Cardi
Heart
Cerebr
Brain, cerebrum
Colo, colon
Colon (section of large intestine)
Crani
Cranium, skull
Dermat
Skin
Neuron
Nerve
Nephr
Kidney
Ost
Bone
Pulmon
Lung
Ren
Kidney
Vas
Vessel
Prefixes are always
Spelled with a hyphen (-) at the end indicating that it is a word part to be attached to another
A-, an-
Without, not
Dys-
Painful, difficult, abnormal
Inter-
Between, among
Intra-
Inside, within
Peri-
Around, surrounding
Poly-
Many, much
Post-
After, behind
Pre-
Before
Sub-, infra-
Below, beneath
Supra-, super-
Above
Suffixes are always
Spelled with a hyphen (-) at the beginning indicating that it is a word part to be attached to another
-ac, -al, -ary, -ic, -ous
Pertaining to
-algia
Pain
-ectomy
Excision, surgical removal
-gram
Recording, record
-ism, -ia
Condition of
-itis
Inflammation
-logy
Study of
-ium
Pertaining to body region, structure
-oma
Tumor
-tomy
Incision
Combining vowel is usually an
“o” but sometimes “i” or “e”
Combining vowels use the word root followed by a
Slash “/“ and the combining vowel
