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OTD 215- Medical Terminology Chapter 1

Exam Questions and Answers

angi/o - Answers - vessel vas/o - Answers - vessel vascul/o - Answers - vessel cardi/o - Answers - heart enter/o - Answers - small intestine esophag/o - Answers - esophagus gastr/o - Answers - stomach hem/o - Answers - blood hemat/o - Answers - blood hepat/o - Answers - liver oste/o - Answers - bone ur/o - Answers - urine urin/o - Answers - urine

• al - Answers - pertaining to
• eal - Answers - pertaining to
• ectasis - Answers - expansion or dilation
• ectomy - Answers - excision or removal
• ia - Answers - condition of
• itis - Answers - inflammation
• logy - Answers - study of

• megaly - Answers - enlargement
• stomy - Answers - creation of an opening
• tomy - Answers - incision oligo- - Answers - few or deficient para- - Answers - alongside of, abnormal peri- - Answers - around
• ac - Answers - pertaining to
• ar - Answers - pertaining to
• dynia - Answers - pain
• ium - Answers - structure or tissue
• rrhaphy - Answers - suture
• rrhexis - Answers - rupture endo- - Answers - within epi- - Answers - upon sub- - Answers - below or under a- - Answers - without an- - Answers - without anti- - Answers - against or opposed to contra- - Answers - against or opposed to de- - Answers - from, down, or not ab- - Answers - away from ad- - Answers - to, toward, or near circum- - Answers - around

peri- - Answers - around dia- - Answers - across or through trans- - Answers - across or through e- - Answers - out or away ec- - Answers - out or away ex- - Answers - out or away ecto- - Answers - outside exo- - Answers - outside extra- - Answers - outside en- - Answers - within intra- - Answers - within inter- - Answers - between meso- - Answers - middle meta- - Answers - beyond, after, or change retro- - Answers - backward or behind sub- - Answers - below or under infra- - Answers - below or under bi- - Answers - two or both hemi- - Answers - half semi- - Answers - half hyper- - Answers - above or excessive hypo- - Answers - below or deficient macro- - Answers - large or long

micro- - Answers - small mono- - Answers - one uni- - Answers - one pan- - Answers - all poly- - Answers - many multi- - Answers - many quadri- - Answers - four super- - Answers - above or excessive supra- - Answers - above or excessive tri- - Answers - three ultra- - Answers - beyond or excessive ante- - Answers - before pre- - Answers - before pro- - Answers - before brady- - Answers - slow tachy- - Answers - fast post- - Answers - after or behind re- - Answers - again or back con- - Answers - together or with syn- - Answers - together or with sym- - Answers - together or with dys- - Answers - painful, difficult, or faulty eu- - Answers - good or normal

neo- - Answers - new

• algia - Answers - pain
• genesis - Answers - origin or production
• lysis - Answers - breaking down or dissolution
• oid - Answers - resembling
• penia - Answers - abnormal reduction
• rrhea - Answers - discharge
• spasm - Answers - involuntary contraction
• cele - Answers - pouching or hernia
• iasis - Answers - formation of presence of
• malacia - Answers - softening
• oma - Answers - tumor
• osis - Answers - condition or increase
• phil - Answers - attraction for
• phila - Answers - attraction for
• ptosis - Answers - falling or downward displacement
• rrhage - Answers - to burst forth (usually blood)
• rrhagia - Answers - to burst forth (usually blood)
• centesis - Answers - puncture for aspiration
• desis - Answers - binding
• pexy - Answers - suspension or fixation
• plasty - Answers - surgical repair or reconstruction
• ation - Answers - process

• e - Answers - general indicator that a word is a person, place, or thing
• icle - Answers - small
• ole - Answers - small
• ula - Answers - small
• ule - Answers - small
• gram - Answers - record
• graph - Answers - instrument for recording
• graphy - Answers - process of recording
• iatrics - Answers - treatment
• iatry - Answers - treatment
• logist - Answers - one who specializes in the study or treatment of
• ist - Answers - one who specializes in
• meter - Answers - instrument for measuring
• metry - Answers - process of measuring
• poiesis - Answers - formation
• scope - Answers - instrument for examination
• scopy - Answers - process of examination
• stasis - Answers - stop or stand cyan/o - Answers - blue erythr/o - Answers - red leuk/o - Answers - white melan/o - Answers - black aer/o - Answers - air or gas

hydr/o - Answers - water lip/o - Answers - fat py/o - Answers - pus abdomin/o - Answers - abdomen lapar/p - Answers - abdomen acr/o - Answers - extremity or topmost adren/o - Answers - gland angi/o - Answers - vessel arthr/o - Answers - joint cephal/o - Answers - head col/o - Answers - colon colon/o - Answers - colon cyt/o - Answers - cell derm/o - Answers - skin dermat/o - Answers - skin cutane/o - Answers - skin hist/o - Answers - tissue my/o - Answers - muscle muscul/o - Answers - muscle nas/o - Answers - nose rhin/o - Answers - nose nephr/o - Answers - kidney ren/o - Answers - kidney

neur/o - Answers - nerve or/o - Answers - mouth pneum/o - Answers - air or lung pneumon/o - Answers - air or lung carcin/o - Answers - cancer crin/o - Answers - to secrete esthesi/o - Answers - sensation fibr/o - Answers - fiber gen/o - Answers - origin or production gynec/o - Answers - woman lith/o - Answers - stone morph/o - Answers - form necr/o - Answers - death onc/o - Answers - turmor or mass orth/o - Answers - straight, normal, or correct path/o - Answers - disease ped/o - Answers - child or foot phag/o - Answers - eat or swallow phas/o - Answers - formation psych/o - Answers - mind scler/o - Answers - hard son/o - Answers - sound sten/o - Answers - narrow

therm/o - Answers - heat tox/o - Answers - poison toxic/o - Answers - poison troph/o - Answers - nourishment or development