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intro to medical terminology

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What is the name of last syllable? ULTIMA
What is the name of the second to last syllable? PENULT
What is the name of the third to last syllable? ANTEPENULT
What two languages mostly make up the medical language? GREEK AND LATIN
What does the word EPONYMS mean? it means to put your name on something. Word formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented whatever is being described.
Who is considered the father of western medicine? Hippocrates
What is the most common combining vowel? O
When do we use a combining vowel? To join a root to any suffix beginning with a consonant. EX:SPLENOMEGALY
What is the definition of MYCO? Fungus
What does Phago "G=gut" mean? To eat
What are 3 suffixes that mean pertaining to ac, ous, eal
what suffix means tissue/structure? ium
What suffix means tumor? oma
Medical terminology language is ONLY made up of Greek and Latin? False
Encephal/o pertains to what body part? Brain
What is the root for "hard" scler/o
What does the suffix iasis mean? presence of
what is the root for the defination of "To speak"? phasia
difference between SCOPE and SCOPY? SCOPE: instrument used to look SCOPY: process of looking.
what is a gram? written record.
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