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Medical Terminology
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |