Scientific & Medical Terminology

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hemat-/hemo-

blood

-emia

blood condition

my-/musculo-

muscle

-onyma

name

sten/o

narrowing

neuro-

nerve

troph/o

nourishment/development

Medical language is made up primarily (but not exclusively) of words taken from two ancient languages:

Greek & Latin

Medical language allows health care professionals to communicate quickly because a. it is a quick way to speak to other health care professionals without taking the time to describe symptoms or examine findings b. the patients are usually baffled by the terminology and do not ask additional questions c. words with many syllables always communicate more information than words with few syllables d. none of these

a. it is a quick way to speak to other health care professionals without taking the time to describe symptoms or examine finding

-malacia

abnormal softening

a word made up of the first letters of each of the words that make up a phrase

acronym

pen-

almost

Medical language allows health care professionals to be clear because a. few people really understand medical terminology, so at least everyone is speaking the same way b. health care professionals are in control of the situation and don't want to scare patients with a language that they could understand c. we live in a multicultural society with a variety of languages, and medical language is a way of speaking the same way about the same thing despite your native language d. none of these

c. we live in a multicultural society with a variety of languages, and medical language is a way of speaking the same way about the same thing despite your native language

morph/o

change

-ia

condition

-ia/-ism

condition

-osis

condition

-y

condition/procedure

gen/o

creation/cause

Which of the following is NOT a reason why medical language is necessary and useful? a. Medical language allows health care professionals to be clear. b. Medical language allows health care professionals to comfort patients. c. Medical language allows health care professionals to communicate quickly. d. Medical language allows health care professionals to intimidate their patients.

d. Medical language allows health care professionals to intimidate their patients.

Medical language allows health care professionals to comfort patients because a. it communicates a sense that the health care professionals are in control of the situation b. it lets the patients know that the health care professionals are not caught off guard by the symptoms at hand c. it lets the patients know that the health care professionals know what is going on d. all of these

d. all of these

necr/o

death

-penia

deficiency

-pathy

disease

-pathic

disease or suffering

-ptosis

drooping

xer/o

dry

phag/o

eat

-megaly

enlargement

a word formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented whatever is being described

eponym

-rrhage

excessive flow

tachy-

fast

-rrhea

flow

xen/o

foreign

plas/o

formation

myc/o

fungus

scler/o

hard

card-

heart

cardi-

heart

-cele

hernia

acro-

high

-itis

inflammation

-spasm

involuntary contraction

arthr-

joint

ultima

last syllable

hepat-

liver

-lysis

loosen, or break down

pnuem-/pnuemon-/pulmon-

lung

-iatry

medical science

-algia/-dynia

pain

-iasis

presence of

-iodio

private or alone

py/o

puss

-oid

resembling

-rrhexis

rupture

penult

second to last syllable, almost last

derm-/dermat-/cutane-

skin

-icle/-ole/-ule/-ula

small

entero-

small intestine

-ist

specialist

-iatrist

specialist in medicine of

-logist

specialist in the study of

gastro-

stomach

orth/o

straight

-ium

structure/tissue

-logy

study of

path/o

suffering/disease

antepenult

third to last syllable

-oma

tumor

epi-

upon

vas-/vaculo-/angi-

vessel

hydr/o

water


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