Chapter 2: The Basics of Medical Terminology Questions and Answers with complete solutions

Chapter 2: The Basics of Medical Terminology Questions and Answers with complete solutions Intrapneumonultramicroscoposilicovolcanoconiosis - ANS- Mount St. Helen Disease due to volcano eruption Intra - ANS- within pneumono - ANS- lung ultra - ANS- beyond micro - ANS- small scopic - ANS- view silico - ANS- silicon carbon volcano - ANS- vent coni - ANS- dust osis - ANS- condition Pneumonoconiosis - ANS- Black Lung Disease (Literal Meaning) is lung/dust/medical condition or disease (Actual Meaning) is lung inflammation caused by the inhalation of small dust particles resulting in scarring of the air sacs Hippocrates - ANS- "The Father of Medicine" Galen - ANS- An ancient medical writer about anatomy, physiology, and general medicine Aulus Cornelius Celsus - ANS- Roman encyclopediast who wrote a lengthy volume on medicine. His anatomical observations helped give unique language of medicine its basis for existence today. Noun - ANS- names something; functions as subjects, objects, complements, and modifiers; names persons, places, things, ideas, animals, body parts, and medical objects Verb - ANS- Describes an action or condition; functions as sentence predicates or as part of a predicate Adjectives - ANS- modify nouns to show or describe a quality; modify or qualify nouns and pronouns compound word - ANS- word formed from two or more word roots that are frequently used together in a spoken language; has a meaning that is derived from the fracturing and analyzing of each of the smaller words synonym - ANS- (same word) words with similar meanigs antonym - ANS- (against word) words with opposite meanings homonym - ANS- (same word) words that sound like another but differ in spelling and meaning prefix - ANS- one or more letters attached to the beginning of a word stem; pre- (before) and -fix (to fasten) in Latin; "to fasten in front of a word"; it expands or modifies a stem word's meaning and usage root - ANS- word stem a-/an-/ir-/ar- - ANS- without, lack of, no, not ab-/ef- - ANS- away from ad-/af- - ANS- to, toward ambi- - ANS- both, double, two ana- - ANS- apart, up, back, again ante- - ANS- before, in front of anti- - ANS- against, rversed bi-/bin-/di-/diplo- - ANS- two, twice, double co- - ANS- two, twice, double; together, with, both (two) cata- - ANS- down, under, against circum- - ANS- around, about, circle com-/con- - ANS- together, with, both (two) contra- - ANS- against, opposite de- - ANS- away from, remove dia- - ANS- across, complete, between, total, apart, through dis- - ANS- apart or away from, reverse e- - ANS- out, to remove, protrude ec- - ANS- out from, out ecto- - ANS- on outer side, situated on em-/en- - ANS- in, within endo-/intra- - ANS- within epi- - ANS- upon,on