mod 5 quiz Flashcards
Medical terminology has what background?
Latin or Greek
Colp/o means
Vagina… combining word
Cyan/o means
blue… combining word
Gastro means
Stomach… combining word
the component that goes at the beginning of a word and modifies its meaning is?
Prefix
often indicates a location, presence or absence, quantity, size, frequency, or position.
prefix
usually indicates a procedure, condition, disorder, or disease
suffix
stand alone nouns that can be added to combining forms for more specificity of a particular term
suffix
a word part added at the end of a word and completes a medical term
suffix
the begin with a hyphen followed by
the suffix
the foundations of the word that identifies the structure or anatomy being described and to which a suffix or a prefix is added
word root and coining forms
most often uses the vowel o, but other vowels may be used the other two most commonly used are a and i
combining form
most often describes the part of the body
word root
ectomy means
surgical removal
nephro means
kidney
pathy means
disease
tachycardia which word is the prefix
tachy meaning fast
what is the suffix meaning discharge/flowing
rrhea
what is the suffix meaning opening
stomy
combining form most often ends in?
a oi is
megalo means
large
cyan means
blue
oste means
bone
gastro means
stomach : gastroligist
leuk means
white : leukemia white blood cells
neur means
nerve: neurologist
ur means
urine: urology
muscl means
muscle
average blood pressure range
LESS than 120/80
average temperature is
97.6-99.6
average pulse is
60-100
average respiration is
16-20
