In each blank, try to type in the
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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: Why is language useful and necessary?Answer: It allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly, and provide to patients. Question: What are the two languages that serve as the foundation of medical language?Answer: Greek & Question: Lou Gehrig's Disease is an example of what derivative of the language? Answer: Eponym - epi (upon) + (name) = "to put a name to something" Question: What word is derived from the Greek words acro (high, end) and (name) which translates to "make a name with the ends." One example would be, MRI.Answer: Question: Who is considered to be the of western medicine?Answer: Hippocrates Question: were the foundations of western medicine laid?Answer: Greece & Rome Question: Born in AD 129, what man made some of the achievements of our understanding of the human body, how disease affects it, and how drugs work?Answer: Question: What was the global language of the scientific revolution that allowed from England, Italy, Spain, Poland, and elsewhere to talk to one another?Answer: Question: True or False: Latin and Greek provide an excellent for medical terminology because dead languages do not change?Answer: True, by using dead language there is no worry that words will change meaning . Question: What does the letter C make (before a, o, u)?Answer: : Cardiac (KAR-dee-ak) Question: What does the letter C make (before e, i, y)?Answer: : Cephalic (seh-FAL-ik), Cyst (SIST) Question: What does CH make?Answer: : Chiropractor (KAI-roh-PRAK-tor) Question: What does the letter G make (before a, o, u)?Answer: : Gamma (GAH-mah) Question: What does the letter G make (before e, i, y)?Answer: J
Example: (jen-ET-ik) Question: What does PH make?Answer: : Pharmacy (FAR-mah-see) Question: What does PN make?Answer: N
Example: (noo-MOHN-yah) Question: What does PT make?Answer: : Pterigium (teh-RIH-jee-um) Question: What does RH, RRH, make?Answer: : Hemorrhage (HEH-moh-rig) Question: What does X make?Answer: Z
Example: (ZAN-ex), Xeroderma (ZER-oh-DER-mah) Question: What is the name of the last ?Answer: Ultima Question: What is the name of the -to-last syllable? Answer: "almost the last" Question: What is the name of the -to-last syllable?Answer: Antepenult "the one before the one that is the last" Question: Which syllable do you emphasize when medical terms?Answer: the third-to-last "Antepenult"
Example: Cardiac (KAR-dee-ak), Cardiology, (kar-dee-AW-loh-jee), (co-lon-AW-skoh-pee) Question: What is the foundation or of the term?Answer: The Root Question: What is the that gives essential meaning to the term?Answer: Suffix Question: What is added to the of the term when needed to further modify the root?Answer: Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(AR-throh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(KAR-dee-oh) Question: What is the root word for Intestine?Answer: /o
(EN-ter-oh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(GAS-tro) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(he-PAH-toh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: Neur/o
(NUR-oh) Question: What is the root word(s) for ?Answer: Hem/o and /o
(HEE-moh) (heh-MAH-toh) Question: What is the root word(s) for ?Answer: My/o and /o
(MAI-oh) (MUS-kyoo-loh) Question: Angi/o, (AN-gee-oh) Vas/o, (VAS-oh) and /o (VAS-kyoo-loh) are all root words for what?Answer: Vessel, (most commonly to blood vessel) Question: Derm/o, (DER-moh) Dermat/o, (der-MAH-toh) and Cutane/o (kyoo-TAY-nee-oh) are all root for what?Answer: Skin Question: /o, (NOO-moh) Pneumon/o, (noo-MAW-noh) and Pulmon/o (PUL-maw-noh) are all root words for what?Answer: Lung Question: What is the root word for or Cause?Answer: gen/o
(JIN-oh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: hydr/o
(HAI-droh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(MOR-foh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: myc/o
(MAI-koh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: Necr/o
(NEH-kroh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: /o
(OR-thoh) Question: What is the root word for / Disease?Answer: Path/o
(PAH-thoh) Question: What is the root word for Eat?Answer: Phag/o
(FAY-goh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: Plas/o
(PLAH-soh) Question: What is the root word for Pus?Answer: Py/o
(PAI-oh) Question: What is the root word for Hard?Answer: /o
(SKLEH-roh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: Sten/o
(STIH-noh) Question: What is the root word for / Development?Answer: /o
(TROH-foh) Question: What is the root word for ?Answer: Xen/o
(ZEE-noh) Question: What is the definition of the "-ac"Answer: pertaining to : Cardiac Question: What is the of the suffix "-al"Answer: pertaining to
Example: Question: What is the of the suffix "-ar"Answer: pertaining : Muscular Question: What is the definition of the "-ary"Answer: pertaining to
Example: Question: What is the definition of the "-eal"Answer: pertaining to
Example: Question: What is the definition of the "-ic"Answer: pertaining : Medic Question: What is the of the suffix "-tic"Answer: pertaining to : Neurotic Question: What is the definition of the "-ous"Answer: to
Example: Subcutaneous Question: What is the definition of the Suffix(s): -ia (ee-ah), and -ism (ih-zum), that the root into nouns?Answer: condition
Example: pneumonia, Question: What is the definition of the -ium (ee-um), that turns the root into nouns?Answer: tissue, structure
Example: Question: What is the of the Suffix -y (ee), that turns the root into nouns?Answer: , procedure
Example: hypertrophy Question: Ventricle, Arteriole, , & Uvula, are all words that have what kind of suffix(s)?Answer: (Small) Question: What does -icle mean?Answer: Question: What does -ole mean?Answer: Question: What does -ule mean?Answer: Question: What does -ula mean?Answer: Question: What does the -iatrics mean?Answer: science Question: What does the -iatrist mean?Answer: specialist in of Question: What does the -ist mean?Answer: Question: What does the -logist mean?Answer: specialist in the of Question: What does the -logy mean?Answer: of Question: What is the of the Suffix(s) -algia and -dynia?Answer: pain Question: What does -cele to?Answer: hernia Question: What does -emia mean?Answer: condition Question: What does -iasis mean?Answer: presence Question: What is -itis?Answer: Question: What does -lysis mean?Answer: loosen, down Question: What is -malacia?Answer: abnormal Question: What is -megaly?Answer: Question: What does -oid mean?Answer: Question: What does -oma mean?Answer: Question: What does -osis mean?Answer: Question: What does -pathy mean?Answer: Question: What does -penia mean?Answer: Question: What does -ptosis mean?Answer: Question: What does -rrhage, or -rrhagia mean?Answer: excessive Question: What does -rrhea mean?Answer: Question: What does -rrhexis mean?Answer: Question: What does -spasm mean?Answer: involuntary Question: When it comes to what is the suffix -centesisAnswer: Question: When it to testing what does is the suffix -gramAnswer: record Question: When it comes to testing what does is the -graphAnswer: instrument used to a record Question: When it comes to what does is the suffix -graphyAnswer: procedure Question: When it to testing what does is the suffix -meterAnswer: instrument used to Question: When it comes to testing what does is the -metryAnswer: of measuring Question: When it comes to testing what does is the -scopeAnswer: instrument used to Question: When it to testing what does is the suffix -scopyAnswer: of looking Question: When it to treatment what does is the suffix -desisAnswer: binding or Question: When it comes to what does is the suffix -ectomyAnswer: removal Question: When it comes to what does is the suffix -pexyAnswer: fixation Question: When it to treatment what does is the suffix -plastyAnswer: reconstruction Question: When it to treatment what does is the suffix -rrhaphyAnswer: suture Question: When it comes to what does is the suffix -stomyAnswer: of an opening Question: When it comes to treatment what does is the -tomyAnswer: Question: What is the form of -aAnswer: -ae Question: What is the form of -axAnswer: -aces Question: What is the form of -exAnswer: -ices Question: What is the form of -ixAnswer: -ices Question: What is the form of -isAnswer: -es Question: What is the form of -maAnswer: -mata Question: What is the form of -onAnswer: -a Question: What is the form of -umAnswer: -a Question: What is the form of -usAnswer: -i Question: What is the form of -yAnswer: -ies Question: What does the prefix a- or an- mean?Answer: Question: What does the prefix anti- or contra- mean?Answer: against Question: What does the prefix de- mean?Answer: down, away Question: What does the ante- or pre- mean?Answer: before Question: What does the pro- mean?Answer: before, on behalf Question: What does the brady- mean?Answer: slow Question: What does the tachy- mean?Answer: Question: What does the post-Answer: Question: What does the re- mean?Answer: Question: What does the prefix ab- mean?Answer: away Question: What does the prefix ad- mean?Answer: Question: What does the directional (s) circum- or peri- mean?Answer: Question: What does the prefix(s) dia- or trans- mean?Answer: Question: What does the directional (s) e-, ec-, ex- mean?Answer: out Question: What does the prefix(s) ecto-, exo-, extra- mean?Answer: outside Question: What does the directional prefix(s) en-, endo-, - mean?Answer: in, Question: What does the prefix epi- mean?Answer: upon Question: What does the prefix sub- mean?Answer: beneath Question: What does the prefix inter-mean?Answer: Question: What is the of bi-Answer: two Question: What is the quantity of hemi, or Answer: half Question: What does - mean?Answer: Question: What does hypo- mean?Answer: Question: What does - mean?Answer: large Question: What does - mean?Answer: small Question: What is the of mono-Answer: Question: What is the quantity of -Answer: Question: What is the of pan-Answer: all Question: What is the quantity of poly- or -Answer: many Question: What does con-, syn-, or sym- mean?Answer: with, Question: What does dys- mean?Answer: Question: What does eu- mean?Answer: Question: To figure out the definition of a term what 3 steps should you follow in to interpret?Answer: first
then the Prefix (if present)
then the Root or Roots Question: The term (cardio / logy) is defined as what?Answer: study of the Question: The term hepatitis (hepat / itis) is as what?Answer: inflammation of the Question: The term myalgia (my / ) is defined as what?Answer: pain of Question: The term osteotomy (osteo / tomy) is as what?Answer: incision into a Question: The term (angi / ectomy) is defined as what?Answer: surgical removal of a Question: The term arthritis (arthr / itis) is as what?Answer: inflammation of the Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: of a blood vessel (angio / scler / osis) Question: What is the of the term cardiopulmonary?Answer: pertaining to the and lungs (cardio / pulmon / ary) Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: skin cause by fungus (dermato / myc / osis) Question: What is the of the term dysentery?Answer: name for severe diarrhea (dys / enter / y) Question: What is the of the term hepatosplenomegaly?Answer: enlargement of the liver and (hepato / spleno / megaly) Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: condition (hyper / plas / ia) Question: What is the of the term hypoglycemia?Answer: characterized by low sugar in the blood (low blood sugar) (hypo / glyc / emia) Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: bone tumor (osteo / carcin / oma) Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: of the bone marrow (osteo / myel / itis) Question: What is the definition of the term ?Answer: tissue the heart (peri / card / ium) |
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