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Medical Terminology
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Question | Answer |
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What two languages are at the base of medical terminology? | Greek and Latin |
Why medical terminology-three reasons to use? | Communicate clearly; Communicate quickly; Comfort patients |
Instead of memorization, what approach do we use with medical terminology? | Translation |
What is the vowel used to combine 2 roots or a root word and suffix-'o'? | Combining Vowel |
What does -logy mean? | Study of |
What does sclero/o mean? | hard |
What does phago mean? | eat |
What does algia mean? | pain |
What does megaly mean? | enlargement |
What does spasm mean? | involuntary contraction |