Scientific & Medical Terminology
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
