HLHS 101: Chapter 1 - Introduction to
Medical Language-Study Guide
medical language - Answer allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly,
and provide comfort to patients
medical language derives mainly from - Answer Greek and Latin
eponyms - Answer a person after a discovery is named
acronyms - Answer abbreviations that stand in for common phrases
ultima - Answer the last syllable
penult - Answer the almost last syllable
antepenult - Answer the one that is just before the penult
syllable emphasis - Answer usually on the 3rd to last syllable
medical terms - Answer root, suffix, and often a prefix
root - Answer foundation of subject of the term
suffix - Answer ending that gives essential meaning to the term
prefix - Answer added to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root
gen/o - Answer crenation, cause
hydr/o - Answer water
morph/o - Answer change
myc/o - Answer fungus
, necr/o - Answer death
orth/o - Answer straight
path/o - Answer suffering, disease
phag/o - Answer eat
plas/o - Answer formation
py/o - Answer pus
scler/o - Answer hard
sten/o - Answer narrowing
troph/o - Answer nourishment, development
xen/o - Answer foreign
adjective - Answer often mean pertaining to
-ac - Answer pertaining to
-al - Answer pertaining to
-ar - Answer pertaining to
-ary - Answer pertaining to
-eal - Answer pertaining to
-ic - Answer pertaining to
Medical Language-Study Guide
medical language - Answer allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly,
and provide comfort to patients
medical language derives mainly from - Answer Greek and Latin
eponyms - Answer a person after a discovery is named
acronyms - Answer abbreviations that stand in for common phrases
ultima - Answer the last syllable
penult - Answer the almost last syllable
antepenult - Answer the one that is just before the penult
syllable emphasis - Answer usually on the 3rd to last syllable
medical terms - Answer root, suffix, and often a prefix
root - Answer foundation of subject of the term
suffix - Answer ending that gives essential meaning to the term
prefix - Answer added to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root
gen/o - Answer crenation, cause
hydr/o - Answer water
morph/o - Answer change
myc/o - Answer fungus
, necr/o - Answer death
orth/o - Answer straight
path/o - Answer suffering, disease
phag/o - Answer eat
plas/o - Answer formation
py/o - Answer pus
scler/o - Answer hard
sten/o - Answer narrowing
troph/o - Answer nourishment, development
xen/o - Answer foreign
adjective - Answer often mean pertaining to
-ac - Answer pertaining to
-al - Answer pertaining to
-ar - Answer pertaining to
-ary - Answer pertaining to
-eal - Answer pertaining to
-ic - Answer pertaining to
