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This comprehensive resource provides fully solved exam questions and answers for the Medical Terminology course in the 2025/2026 Billing and Coding program at Penn Foster. It covers essential topics across foundational medical language, ensuring learners can understand and apply terminology in clinical and administrative settings. The content includes detailed explanations of word roots, prefixes, and suffixes, with examples covering common medical terms related to body systems, surgical procedures, diseases, and conditions. It also explores anatomical directions and positions, tissue types, body planes and cavities, and includes extensive sections on diagnostic testing, abbreviations, and confidentiality protocols in healthcare documentation. A full unit is dedicated to pharmacology terminology, including drug classifications, routes of administration, controlled substance schedules, and the distinction between generic and brand name medications. Another section emphasizes rules for building medical terms, the six levels of biological organization, and the use of eponyms in healthcare language. This guide is ideal for students pursuing programs in medical billing and coding, healthcare administration, nursing, allied health, medical transcription, or preparing for AHIMA or AAPC certifications. It’s particularly useful for mastering the language needed to communicate clearly in patient records, insurance documentation, and clinical environments. Keywords: medical terminology, billing and coding, Penn Foster, word roots, suffixes, prefixes, anatomy terms, pharmacology, drug classifications, diagnostic terms, surgical procedures, abbreviations, healthcare documentation, body systems, HIPAA, drug routes, eponyms

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Medical Terminology- Penn Foster-
Billing & Coding 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers | New
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Word Root - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A word root is the foundation of a medical

term. It provides us with the general meaning of the word.


neur - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nerve


gastr - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔stomach


enter - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔small intestines


Prefix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provide information about the root word.


Is added to the front (before) of the root word.

,Could give location of the organ.

Number or frequency

NOT all medical terms have prefixes!!!!


brady - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Slow


*think brady brunch slowwww


Dys - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔difficulty


bad

painful

example:Dysmenorrhea is the occurrence of painful cramps during

menstruation.


pre - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔before


tachy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Rapid


Fast

example: tachycardia

Rapid heart beat (over 120 beats per min)


Mono - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔one

, Multi - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔many


Suffix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A word part attached to the end of a word.


Usually indicates a condition, disease, disorder or procedure.

Almost ALL medical terms have a suffix.


algia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pain/painful condition


example: myalgia - my = muslce, algia = pain

neur = nerve, algia = pain


logy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔study of


example: biology = study of life


lysis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔destruction


example: hemolysis = destruction of RBC (red blood cells

bacteriolysis = destruction of bacteria


rrhage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔excessive, abnormal flow


ex: menorrhagia = abnormal bleeding at menstruation

hemorrhage = excessive blood flow



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