Ch. 1 Med Term
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| show | It allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly, and provide comfort to patients.
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| show | Greek & Latin
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| show | Eponym - epi (upon) + onyma (name) = "to put a name to something"
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| show | Acronym
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| show | Hippocrates
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| show | Ancient Greece & Rome
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| show | Galen
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| What was the global language of the scientific revolution that allowed people from England, Italy, Spain, Poland, and elsewhere to talk to one another? | show 🗑
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| show | True, by using dead language there is no worry that words will change meaning overtime.
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| show | K
Example: Cardiac (KAR-dee-ak)
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| What sound does the letter C make (before e, i, y)? | show 🗑
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| What sound does CH make? | show 🗑
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| What sound does the letter G make (before a, o, u)? | show 🗑
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| show | J
Example: Genetic (jen-ET-ik)
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| show | F
Example: Pharmacy (FAR-mah-see)
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| What sound does PN make? | show 🗑
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| show | T
Example: Pterigium (teh-RIH-jee-um)
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| What sound does RH, RRH, make? | show 🗑
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| show | Z
Example: Xanax (ZAN-ex), Xeroderma (ZER-oh-DER-mah)
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| What is the name of the last syllable? | show 🗑
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| show | Penult "almost the last"
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| show | Antepenult "the one before the one that is almost the last"
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| Which syllable do you emphasize when pronouncing medical terms? | show 🗑
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| show | The Root
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| show | Suffix
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| show | Prefix
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| show | Arthr/o
(AR-throh)
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| What is the root word for Heart? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Small Intestine? | show 🗑
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| show | Gastr/o
(GAS-tro)
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| show | Hepat/o
(he-PAH-toh)
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| show | Neur/o
(NUR-oh)
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| show | Hem/o and Hemat/o
(HEE-moh) (heh-MAH-toh)
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| show | My/o and Muscul/o
(MAI-oh) (MUS-kyoo-loh)
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| show | Vessel, (most commonly refers to blood vessel)
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| show | Skin
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| show | Lung
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| show | gen/o
(JIN-oh)
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| What is the root word for Water? | show 🗑
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| show | Morph/o
(MOR-foh)
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| show | myc/o
(MAI-koh)
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| show | Necr/o
(NEH-kroh)
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| show | Ortho/o
(OR-thoh)
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| What is the root word for Suffering / Disease? | show 🗑
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| show | Phag/o
(FAY-goh)
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| What is the root word for Formation? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Pus? | show 🗑
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| show | Scler/o
(SKLEH-roh)
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| What is the root word for Narrowing? | show 🗑
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| show | Troph/o
(TROH-foh)
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| What is the root word for Foreign? | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Cardiac
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Skeletal
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Muscular
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Pulmonary
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-eal" | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Medic
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-tic" | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Subcutaneous
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| show | condition
Example: pneumonia, autism
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| show | tissue, structure
Example: pericardium
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| show | condition, procedure
Example: hypertrophy
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| show | Diminutive (Small)
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| What does -icle mean? | show 🗑
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| What does -ole mean? | show 🗑
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| show | small
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| show | small
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| What does the suffix -iatrics mean? | show 🗑
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| show | specialist in medicine of
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| show | specialist
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| show | specialist in the study of
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| show | study of
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| What is the definition of the Suffix(s) -algia and -dynia? | show 🗑
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| show | hernia
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| What does -emia mean? | show 🗑
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| show | presence of
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| show | inflammation
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| What does -lysis mean? | show 🗑
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| show | abnormal softening
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| What is -megaly? | show 🗑
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| What does -oid mean? | show 🗑
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| show | tumor
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| What does -osis mean? | show 🗑
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| show | disease
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| What does -penia mean? | show 🗑
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| show | drooping
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| show | excessive flow
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| show | flow
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| What does -rrhexis mean? | show 🗑
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| show | involuntary contraction
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| When it comes to testing what is the suffix -centesis | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -gram | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -graph | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -graphy | show 🗑
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| show | instrument used to measure
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -metry | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -scope | show 🗑
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| show | process of looking
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -desis | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -ectomy | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -pexy | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -plasty | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -rrhaphy | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -stomy | show 🗑
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| show | incision
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| show | -ae
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| show | -aces
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| show | -ices
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| What is the plural form of -ix | show 🗑
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| show | -es
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| show | -mata
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| show | -a
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| show | -a
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| What is the plural form of -us | show 🗑
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| show | -ies
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| show | not
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| show | against
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| show | down, away from
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| show | before
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| What does the prefix pro- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | slow
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| show | fast
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| show | after
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| What does the prefix re- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix ab- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | toward
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| What does the directional prefix(s) circum- or peri- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix(s) dia- or trans- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix(s) e-, ec-, ex- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix(s) ecto-, exo-, extra- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix(s) en-, endo-, intra- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | upon
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| What does the directional prefix sub- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix inter-mean? | show 🗑
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| What is the quantity of bi- | show 🗑
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| What is the quantity of hemi, or semi | show 🗑
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| show | over
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| show | under
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| show | large
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| show | small
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| What is the quantity of mono- | show 🗑
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| What is the quantity of oligo- | show 🗑
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| show | all
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| What is the quantity of poly- or multi- | show 🗑
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| What does con-, syn-, or sym- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | bad
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| What does eu- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Suffix first
then the Prefix (if present)
then the Root or Roots
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| show | study of the heart
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| The term hepatitis (hepat / itis) is defined as what? | show 🗑
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| The term myalgia (my / algia) is defined as what? | show 🗑
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| show | incision into a bone
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| show | surgical removal of a vessel
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| The term arthritis (arthr / itis) is defined as what? | show 🗑
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| show | hardening of a blood vessel (angio / scler / osis)
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| What is the definition of the term cardiopulmonary? | show 🗑
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| show | skin condition cause by fungus (dermato / myc / osis)
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| What is the definition of the term dysentery? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term hepatosplenomegaly? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term hyperplasia? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term hypoglycemia? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term osteocarcinoma? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term osteomyelitis? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term pericardium? | show 🗑
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