Hospital Corpsman Basic 1 Exam Study Questions and Answers Top Graded 2024
Where does medical terminology originate from? How much does it take up? - Greek; 75% What are the three reasons why most medical terminology are of Greek origin. - 1. Greeks are founders of rational medicine 2. Easy to build compound words 3. International language understood by all medical professionals What oath do all medical personnel take? - The Hippocratic Oath What are Roots? - The foundation of a word; made up of prefixes + suffixes Broncho/Plumo... - Lungs Cardi... - Heart Gastro... - Stomach Hepat... - Liver Neur... - Nerve Nas... - Nose Or... - Mouth/Oral Pneumo - Lungs/Air Ab... - Away from Ad... - Increase, adherence, toward Ante... - before Brady... - Slow Contra - against Dys... - Painful or difficult Hyper... - high Hypo... - low Inter... - between Peri... - around Poly... - many Post... - after Pre... - before Tachy... - fast Uni... - one ...algia - pain ...al - pertaining to ...emesis - vomiting ...itis - inflammation ...ology - study of ...plegia - paralysis ...pnea - breathing ...rrhea - discharge
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