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VETT 118
Chapter 1 - Text flash cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a root? | Gives the essential meaning of the word. It cannot stand alone. |
| What is a prefix? | Beginning of a word. Usually indicates number, location, time, or status. |
| Combining vowel? | Single vowel, usually an o, that is added to the end of a root to make the word easier to pronounce. It is used when a suffix begins with a consonant or when two or more roots are joined. |
| Combining form? | Combination of the root and combining vowel. |
| What is a suffix? | Part found at the end of a word. Indicates procedure, condition, disease, or disorder. |
| Prefixes are added to the beginning of a word or root to? | Modify its meaning. |
| What is the most commonly used combining vowel? | O, however i and e may be used as well. |
| What is always used when two or more root words are joined? | A combining vowel. |
| What is a combining form? | It is word root plus a combining vowel. |
| What do combining forms usually describe? | A part of the body. |
| Suffixes are added to the end of a word or root to: | Modify its meaning. |
| Suffixes made do what to word's part of speech? | Change it. Different suffixes may change the word from a noun to and adjective. |
| How do you correctly dissect a word? | Define the suffix first, the prefix second, and then the root. If there are two roots, divide each one and read from left to right. |
| What is the order of words in a medical term? | Anatomical order. Where body systems are involved, words usually are built in the order in which the organs occur in the body. For example, gastroenteritis is the term for inflammation of the stomach and small intestines because of how food passes. |
| Describe exception to the anatomical order of a medical term? | If a diagnostic procedure uses a tool or substance that is passed in the opposite direction of how the body operates, the words are built in order of how the tool or substance passes. |
| What are three interesting facts about medical terms? | Terms may be pronounced the same, but have different meanings (ex. ileum and ilium). Some terms have the same spelling as terms used for other body parts (ex. myel/o, cervical). Many terms form a verb, noun, plural, and adjective form. |
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