Introduction 1

Question 1

What word parts make up a medical term?

Answer 1

Prefixes, combining forms, and suffixes

Question 2

Earliest medical practitioners spoke/wrote in what?

Answer 2

Greek and Latin

Question 3

Medical terminology comes from what?

Answer 3

Word parts derived from early languages, modern languages, and eponyms

Question 4

Basic word parts include

Answer 4

Roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Question 5

Gastr

Answer 5

Stomach

Question 6

Cardi

Answer 6

Heart

Question 7

Cerebr

Answer 7

Brain, cerebrum

Question 8

Colo, colon

Answer 8

Colon (section of large intestine)

Question 9

Crani

Answer 9

Cranium, skull

Question 10

Dermat

Answer 10

Skin

Question 11

Neuron

Answer 11

Nerve

Question 11

Nephr

Answer 11

Kidney

Question 12

Ost

Answer 12

Bone

Question 13

Pulmon

Answer 13

Lung

Question 14

Ren

Answer 14

Kidney

Question 15

Vas

Answer 15

Vessel

Question 16

Prefixes are always

Answer 16

Spelled with a hyphen (-) at the end indicating that it is a word part to be attached to another

Question 17

A-, an-

Answer 17

Without, not

Question 18

Dys-

Answer 18

Painful, difficult, abnormal

Question 19

Inter-

Answer 19

Between, among

Question 20

Intra-

Answer 20

Inside, within

Question 21

Peri-

Answer 21

Around, surrounding

Question 22

Poly-

Answer 22

Many, much

Question 23

Post-

Answer 23

After, behind

Question 24

Pre-

Answer 24

Before

Question 25

Sub-, infra-

Answer 25

Below, beneath

Question 26

Supra-, super-

Answer 26

Above

Question 27

Suffixes are always

Answer 27

Spelled with a hyphen (-) at the beginning indicating that it is a word part to be attached to another

Question 28

-ac, -al, -ary, -ic, -ous

Answer 28

Pertaining to

Question 29

-algia

Answer 29

Pain

Question 30

-ectomy

Answer 30

Excision, surgical removal

Question 31

-gram

Answer 31

Recording, record

Question 32

-ism, -ia

Answer 32

Condition of

Question 33

-itis

Answer 33

Inflammation

Question 34

-logy

Answer 34

Study of

Question 34

-ium

Answer 34

Pertaining to body region, structure

Question 35

-oma

Answer 35

Tumor

Question 36

-tomy

Answer 36

Incision

Question 37

Combining vowel is usually an

Answer 37

“o” but sometimes “i” or “e”

Question 38

Combining vowels use the word root followed by a

Answer 38

Slash “/“ and the combining vowel