Ch. 1 Med Term
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| show | It allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly, and provide comfort to patients.
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| show | Greek & Latin
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| show | Eponym - epi (upon) + onyma (name) = "to put a name to something"
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| What word is derived from the Greek words acro (high, end) and onyma (name) which translates to "make a name with the ends." One example would be, MRI. | show 🗑
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| Who is considered to be the father of western medicine? | show 🗑
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| Where were the foundations of western medicine laid? | show 🗑
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| Born in AD 129, what man made some of the greatest achievements of our understanding of the human body, how disease affects it, and how drugs work? | show 🗑
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| What was the global language of the scientific revolution that allowed people from England, Italy, Spain, Poland, and elsewhere to talk to one another? | show 🗑
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| True or False: Latin and Greek provide an excellent basis for medical terminology because dead languages do not change? | show 🗑
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| show | K
Example: Cardiac (KAR-dee-ak)
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| What sound does the letter C make (before e, i, y)? | show 🗑
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| show | K
Example: Chiropractor (KAI-roh-PRAK-tor)
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| show | G
Example: Gamma (GAH-mah)
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| show | J
Example: Genetic (jen-ET-ik)
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| What sound does PH make? | show 🗑
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| What sound does PN make? | show 🗑
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| What sound does PT make? | show 🗑
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| show | R
Example: Hemorrhage (HEH-moh-rig)
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| What sound does X make? | show 🗑
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| show | Ultima "last"
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| What is the name of the second-to-last syllable? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the third-to-last syllable? | show 🗑
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| Which syllable do you emphasize when pronouncing medical terms? | show 🗑
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| show | The Root
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| show | Suffix
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| What is added to the beginning of the term when needed to further modify the root? | show 🗑
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| show | Arthr/o
(AR-throh)
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| What is the root word for Heart? | show 🗑
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| show | Enter/o
(EN-ter-oh)
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| What is the root word for Stomach? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Liver? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Nerve? | show 🗑
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| show | Hem/o and Hemat/o
(HEE-moh) (heh-MAH-toh)
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| What is the root word(s) for Muscle? | show 🗑
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| show | Vessel, (most commonly refers to blood vessel)
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| Derm/o, (DER-moh) Dermat/o, (der-MAH-toh) and Cutane/o (kyoo-TAY-nee-oh) are all root words for what? | show 🗑
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| show | Lung
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| What is the root word for Creation or Cause? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Water? | show 🗑
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| show | Morph/o
(MOR-foh)
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| What is the root word for Fungus? | show 🗑
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| show | Necr/o
(NEH-kroh)
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| show | Ortho/o
(OR-thoh)
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| What is the root word for Suffering / Disease? | show 🗑
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| show | Phag/o
(FAY-goh)
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| show | Plas/o
(PLAH-soh)
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| show | Py/o
(PAI-oh)
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| show | Scler/o
(SKLEH-roh)
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| What is the root word for Narrowing? | show 🗑
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| What is the root word for Nourishment / Development? | show 🗑
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| show | Xen/o
(ZEE-noh)
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Cardiac
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-al" | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-ar" | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
Example: Pulmonary
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-eal" | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-ic" | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-tic" | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the suffix "-ous" | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the Suffix(s): -ia (ee-ah), and -ism (ih-zum), that turns the root into nouns? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the Suffix -ium (ee-um), that turns the root into nouns? | show 🗑
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| show | condition, procedure
Example: hypertrophy
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| Ventricle, Arteriole, Pustule, & Uvula, are all words that have what kind of suffix(s)? | show 🗑
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| What does -icle mean? | show 🗑
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| What does -ole mean? | show 🗑
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| show | small
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| What does -ula mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the suffix -iatrics mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the suffix -iatrist mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the suffix -ist mean? | show 🗑
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| show | specialist in the study of
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| show | study of
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| show | pain
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| What does -cele translate to? | show 🗑
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| What does -emia mean? | show 🗑
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| show | presence of
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| What is -itis? | show 🗑
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| show | loosen, break down
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| show | abnormal softening
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| What is -megaly? | show 🗑
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| show | resembling
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| What does -oma mean? | show 🗑
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| show | condition
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| show | disease
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| show | deficiency
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| What does -ptosis mean? | show 🗑
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| show | excessive flow
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| What does -rrhea mean? | show 🗑
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| What does -rrhexis mean? | show 🗑
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| What does -spasm mean? | show 🗑
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| show | puncture
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| show | written record
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -graph | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -graphy | show 🗑
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| When it comes to testing what does is the suffix -meter | show 🗑
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| show | process of measuring
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| show | instrument used to look
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| show | process of looking
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| show | binding or fixation
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| show | removal
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| show | surgical fixation
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -plasty | show 🗑
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| When it comes to treatment what does is the suffix -rrhaphy | show 🗑
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| show | creation of an opening
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| show | incision
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| show | -ae
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| What is the plural form of -ax | show 🗑
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| show | -ices
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| show | -ices
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| show | -es
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| show | -mata
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| What is the plural form of -on | show 🗑
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| show | -a
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| show | -i
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| What is the plural form of -y | show 🗑
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| What does the negating prefix a- or an- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the negating prefix anti- or contra- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | down, away from
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| show | before
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| What does the prefix pro- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | slow
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| What does the prefix tachy- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | after
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| show | again
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| show | away
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| show | toward
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| show | around
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| What does the directional prefix(s) dia- or trans- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | out
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| show | outside
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| What does the directional prefix(s) en-, endo-, intra- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does the directional prefix epi- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | beneath
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| show | between
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| What is the quantity of bi- | show 🗑
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| show | half
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| What does hyper- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does hypo- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does macro- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does micro- mean? | show 🗑
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| What is the quantity of mono- | show 🗑
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| What is the quantity of oligo- | show 🗑
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| show | all
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| What is the quantity of poly- or multi- | show 🗑
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| show | with, together
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| What does dys- mean? | show 🗑
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| What does eu- mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Suffix first
then the Prefix (if present)
then the Root or Roots
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| show | study of the heart
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| The term hepatitis (hepat / itis) is defined as what? | show 🗑
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| show | pain of muscle
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| show | incision into a bone
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| show | surgical removal of a vessel
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| show | inflammation of the joint
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| show | hardening of a blood vessel (angio / scler / osis)
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| show | pertaining to the heart and lungs (cardio / pulmon / ary)
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| show | skin condition cause by fungus (dermato / myc / osis)
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| What is the definition of the term dysentery? | show 🗑
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| show | enlargement of the liver and spleen (hepato / spleno / megaly)
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| What is the definition of the term hyperplasia? | show 🗑
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| What is the definition of the term hypoglycemia? | show 🗑
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| show | bone cancer tumor (osteo / carcin / oma)
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| show | inflammation of the bone marrow (osteo / myel / itis)
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| show | tissue around the heart (peri / card / ium)
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