Medical Terminology Chapters 1 and 2 Questions and Answers Graded A

Medical Terminology Chapters 1 and 2 Questions and Answers Graded A Combining form - ANS- a root that includes one or more vowels tacked onto the end of it to make a root-suffix combination pronounceable -al - ANS- makes a word an adjective -ism - ANS- makes a word a noun -iatr - ANS- physician -algia - ANS- pain -logy - ANS- study of -itis - ANS- inflammation dia- - ANS- across; through gnosis - ANS- greek word meaning knowledge gen - ANS- origin, cause psycho - ANS- mind path - ANS- disease neur/o - ANS- nerve genic - ANS- adjective suffix meaning "caused by" or "originating from" iatrogenic - ANS- disorder, disease caused by any medical treatment or practictioner -ist and -ician - ANS- practitioner -y and -ics - ANS- practice ger/o - ANS- old man ped/o - ANS- child arthr/o - ANS- joint card/i/o - ANS- heart derm/o/ato - ANS- skin ger/o/onto - ANS- old age hem/a/ato - ANS- blood muscul/o - ANS- muscle natal - ANS- birth; born os/teo - ANS- bone phren/o - ANS- diaphragm, mind, or seat of passions psych/o - ANS- mind skelet/0 - ANS- skeleton tend/o, ten/o - ANS- tendon -dynia - ANS- pain -gen, -genesis - ANS- origin, cause, formation -pathy - ANS- disease -scope - ANS- viewing, an instrument used for viewing epi- - ANS- upon, following, or subsequent to micro- - ANS- small peri- - ANS- around pre- - ANS- before post- - ANS- after arter/i/o - ANS- artery spino/o - ANS- spine -porosis - ANS- porous arthralgia - ANS- pain in a joint athrodynia - ANS- pain in joint -ectasis, -ectasia - ANS- expansion or dilation angiectasis - ANS- dilation of a vessel -iasis - ANS- presence, formation of -malacia - ANS- softening osteomalacia - ANS- softening of the bones -megaly - ANS- enlargement gastromegaly - ANS- enlargement of the stomach -oma - ANS- tumor gastroma - ANS- tumor of the stomach -osis - ANS- abnormal condition -penia - ANS- reduction of size or quantity leukopenia - ANS- low number of WBC -plegia - ANS- paralysis hemiplegia - ANS- paralysis on one side of body -pnea - ANS- breathing tachypnea - ANS- rapid breathing -ptosis - ANS- downward displacement -rrhage - ANS- flowing forth hemorrhage - ANS- significant discharge of blood from blood vessels -rrhexis - ANS- rupture -spasm - ANS- muscular contraction -centesis - ANS- surgical puncture -desis - ANS- surgical binding -ectomy - ANS- surgical removal -gram - ANS- written or pictorial record -graph - ANS- device for graphic or pictorial recording -graphy - ANS- act of graphic or pictorial recording -meter - ANS- device for measuring -metry - ANS- act of measuring