Unit 1 med term
Between which two word parts are combining vowels never used?
A combining Vowel never used before a suffix that begins with a vowel.
What is the definition of bradycardia?
Bradycardia means a condition in which someone has a slow heart, or slow heart rate.
Arthr/o-
Joint
What are the four possible parts that can make up a medical term?
The four possible parts that can make up a medical term are prefix, root, suffix, and combining vowel.
What is the most common combining vowel?
The most common combining vowel is the letter o.
Identify the roots and connecting vowels in the term sternocleidomastoid.
The roots of sternocleidomastoid are stern, cleid, and mastoid. That means there are three roots.There are two connecting vowels and they are both the vowel o.
abdomin/o
abdomen
-osis
abnormal condition
epi-
above, upon
trans-
across, through
dors/o
back portion of the body
re-
back, backward, again
pro-
before, forward
retro-
behind
sub-
below, under
hemat/o, hem/o
blood
-emia
blood condition
oste/o
bone
encephal/o
brain
carcin/o
cancerous, cancer
chondr/o
cartilage
-cyte
cell
cyt/o
cell
cerebr/o
cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
ped/o
child
thromb/o
clot, clotting
coccyg/o
coccyx (tailbone)
chrom/o
color
dia-
complete, through
hypo/o
deficient, low, under, beneath, below
path/o
disease
-pathy
disease condition
electr/o
electricity
hyper-
excessive, above normal
-ectomy
excision, removal
ophthalm/o
eye
dist/o
far, distant
adip/o
fat
sarc/o
flesh
anter/o
front
aden/o -
gland
inguin/o
groin
cephal/o
head
cardi/o
heart
ili/o
ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
-scope
instrument for viewing
enter/o
intestines (usually the small intestine)
in-
into, in
nephr/o
kidney
ren/o
kidney
gnos/o
knowledge
bi/o
life
hepat/o
liver
lumb/o
lower back
medi/o
middle
psych/o
mind
cervic/o
neck (of the body or uterus)
neur/o
nerve
a-, an-
no, not, without
rhin/o
nose
kary/o
nucleus
ex-, exo-
out, outside of, outward
-algia
pain
-ac
pertaining to
-al
pertaining to
-ic, -ical
pertaining to
-genic
pertaining to producing, produced by or in.
-ion
process
-tomy
process of cutting, incision
-logy
process of study
-opsy
process of viewing
-y
process, condition
-globin
protein
-gram
record
erythr/o
red
aut-, auto-
self, own
later/o
side
derm/o dermat/o
skin
crani/o
skull
-ist
specialist
-sis
state of, condition
gastr/o
stomach
log/o
study of
glyc/o
sugar
peri-
surrounding, around
hist/o
tissue
bol/o
to cast (throw)
cis/o
to cut
sect/o
to cut
crin/o
to secrete (to form and give off)
iatr/o
treatment, physician
onc/o
tumor (cancerous)
-oma
tumor, mass, swelling
hypo-
under, below
cyst/o
urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
ur/o
urine, urinary tract
leuk/o
white
endo-
within
gynec/o
women, female
radi/o
x-rays
