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A comprehensive review of key medical terminology concepts covered in chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the 10th edition of the medical terminology textbook. It includes a series of exam questions and answers that test the understanding of common medical prefixes, suffixes, and word roots related to anatomy, physiology, and pathology. A wide range of topics such as the terminology for joints, organs, cells, diseases, and medical procedures. By studying this material, students can prepare for exams, strengthen their medical vocabulary, and develop a solid foundation in the language of healthcare.
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Arthr - correct answer ✅✅ Joint Hepat - correct answer ✅✅ Liver Ven - correct answer ✅✅ Vein Oste - correct answer ✅✅ Bone -itis - correct answer ✅✅ Inflammation -pathy - correct answer ✅✅ Disease -megaly - correct answer ✅✅ Enlargement -ic - correct answer ✅✅ Pertaining to -ous - correct answer ✅✅ Pertaining to Intra- - correct answer ✅✅ Within
Sub- - correct answer ✅✅ Under Aden/o - correct answer ✅✅ Gland Carcin/o - correct answer ✅✅ Cancer Cyt/o - correct answer ✅✅ Cell Erythr/o - correct answer ✅✅ Red Iatr/o - correct answer ✅✅ Physician, medicine, or treatment Leuk/o - correct answer ✅✅ White Lip/o - correct answer ✅✅ Fat Melan/o - correct answer ✅✅ Black My/o - correct answer ✅✅ Muscle
Neur/o - correct answer ✅✅ Nerve Onc/o - correct answer ✅✅ Tumor, mass Plasm/o - correct answer ✅✅ Growth, substance, formation Path/o - correct answer ✅✅ Disease Somat/o - correct answer ✅✅ Body Dys- - correct answer ✅✅ Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored Hyper- - correct answer ✅✅ Above, excessive Hypo- - correct answer ✅✅ Below, deficient Meta- - correct answer ✅✅ After, beyond, change
Neo- - correct answer ✅✅ New -al - correct answer ✅✅ Pertaining to -cyte - correct answer ✅✅ Cell -gen - correct answer ✅✅ Substance or agent that produces or causes -genic - correct answer ✅✅ Producing, originating, causing -logist - correct answer ✅✅ One who studies and treats (physician) -logy - correct answer ✅✅ Study of -oid - correct answer ✅✅ Resembling -oma - correct answer ✅✅ Tumor, swelling
-osis - correct answer ✅✅ Abnormal condition, means increase when paired with blood cell word root -ous - correct answer ✅✅ Pertaining to -pathy - correct answer ✅✅ Disease -stasis - correct answer ✅✅ Control, stop, standing Anter/o - correct answer ✅✅ Front Caud/o - correct answer ✅✅ Tail (downward) Cephal/o - correct answer ✅✅ Head (upward) Dist/o - correct answer ✅✅ Away Dors/o - correct answer ✅✅ Back
Infer/o - correct answer ✅✅ Below Later/o - correct answer ✅✅ Side Medi/o - correct answer ✅✅ Middle Poster/o - correct answer ✅✅ Back, behind Proxim/o - correct answer ✅✅ Near Super/o - correct answer ✅✅ Above Ventr/o - correct answer ✅✅ Belly (front) Bi- - correct answer ✅✅ Two Uni- - correct answer ✅✅ One -ad - correct answer ✅✅ Toward
-ior - correct answer ✅✅ Pertaining to Eti/o - correct answer ✅✅ Cause (of disease) Chrom/o - correct answer ✅✅ Color Chlor/o - correct answer ✅✅ Green Cyan/o - correct answer ✅✅ Blue Xanth/o - correct answer ✅✅ Yellow Kary/o - correct answer ✅✅ Nucleus Gno/o - correct answer ✅✅ Knowledge Fibr/o - correct answer ✅✅ Fiber Rhabd/o - correct answer ✅✅ Rod shaped, striated
Lei/o - correct answer ✅✅ Smooth Pro- - correct answer ✅✅ Before Dia- - correct answer ✅✅ Through, complete -plasia - correct answer ✅✅ Condition of formation, development, growth -sis - correct answer ✅✅ State of -plasm - correct answer ✅✅ Growth, substance, formation