Med Term ASA Unit 1 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| The base of a word that represents its main meaning is the | Word Root |
| What are the three purposes of a suffix? | They are placed at the end of a word They Change the meaning or the word root. The Change the part of speech of a word. |
| Prefixes are placed | in front of a word |
| The part of speech that is a modifier (describes a noun) is a(n) | adjective |
| What is a verb? | The part of speech that shows action or a state of being. |
| The word cyanotic is a(n) adjective, verb, noun, or combining form? | adjective |
| The work cardiology is a(n) (give the part of speech) | Noun |
| Choose the suffix that means the process of creating a picture or record. Tome, Tomy, Graph, Graphy | Graphy |
| A word root plus a vowel (e.g., gastr/o) is a | Combining form |
| The suffix representing one who practices (specialist) is: | IST |
| The correct plural form for ganglion is | Ganglia |
| The correct singular form of bacteria is | Bacterium |
| The correct plural of phalanx is | Phalanges |
| When building a word, if the suffix begins with a vowel, what do you do? | Usually use a word root |
| A_____________ of antibiotic was given to fight the infection (injection, inject, injected, injecting) | Injection |
| What is the correct adjective form for Anemia | Anemic |
| what is the correct adjective form for Condyle | Condylar |
| What is the correct adjective form for carpus | Carpal |
| What is the correct adjective form for ilium | Iliac |
| What is the correct adjective form for mucus | Mucous |
| Med Term for inflammation of the stomach | Gastritis |
| Med term for the condition or state of an overactive thyroid | Hyperthyroidism |
| Med term for condition of muscle shortening | Contraction |
| Med term for one who practices psychiatry | Psychiatrist |
| Med term for full of too much stress | Nervous |
| Med term for able to be irritated | irritable |
| Med term for quality of being sensitive | Sensitivity |
| Med term for enlargement of the extremities | Acromegaly |
| Med term for study of the skin | Dermatology |
| Med term for inflammation of the skin on the extremities | Acrodermatitis |
| Med term for hypersensitive reaction to a substance (i.e. perfumed soaps) | Allergy, (Allergies), Allergic reaction |
| Med term for condition of blueness | Cyanosis, Cyanotic |
| Med term for one who practices medicine | Practitioner, physician |
| Med term for fear of water | Hydrophobia, Hydrophobic |
| Med term for surgery using a microscope | Microsurgery |
| Med term for instrument used to count cells | Cytometer |
| Med term for one who makes x-ray images | Radiographer |
| Med term for muscle shortening with stimulation (noun) | Contraction |
| Med term for looking into the stomach and duodenum with a(n) scope | Gastroduodenoscopy |
| Med term for varicella infection causing itchy red spots | Chickenpox |
| Med term for inflammation of the stomach | Gastritis |
| Plural of appendix | Appendices |
| Singular form of carcinomata | Carcinoma |
| Med. Term for specialist in mental disorders (physician) | Psychiatrist |
| Med term for able to be eaten | edible |
| Provide the correct abbreviation for herpes simplex virus one | HSV 1, or HSV I |
| Provide the correct abbreviation for varicella (chickenpox) | VAR |
| Provide the correct abbreviation for the Greek | Gr |
| -able | Ability |
| -acr/o | Extremity |
| allerg/o | Allergy |
| appendic/o | Appendix |
| carcin/o | Cancer (epithelial) |
| cardio | heart |
| condyl/o | condyle (a rounded projection on a bone |
| cyan/o | blue |
| cyt/o | cell |
| dermat/o, derm/a | skin |
| duoden/o | duodenum |
| -ectomy | excision |
| -emia | condition in the blood |
| -er | one who |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| -grapher | one who makes a picture or image |
| hydro- | water |
| -ible | ability |
| -ism | condition or theory |
| itis | inflammation |
| -ity | quality |
| lymph/o | lymphatic |
| -mania | mental illness |
| -megaly, megal/o | enlarged, large |
| -meter | instrument that measures (or counts) |
| -metry | process of measuring |
| micr/o, micro- | small |
| -ology | study of, specialty |
| -ologist | specialist, one who studies |
| -oscopy | process of looking with a scope |
| -osis | condition |
| -ostomy | making a new surgical opening |
| -ous | full of, having (adj. suffix) |
| path/o | disease, pathology |
| -penia | abnormally low amount |
| -phobia | fear |
| -tion | condition or state |
Created by:
Paul Mayuiers
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