Unit 1 med term

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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


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