Clinical Terms for Healthcare Exams 2024–2025
This document offers practice materials focused on core medical terminology, including
root words, prefixes, suffixes, and commonly used clinical terms. It is ideal for students
preparing for healthcare-related exams such as CPC, NCLEX, PLAB, or allied health
certifications. Exercises help reinforce term structure, meaning, and correct usage in real-
world medical contexts.
1. Corpus: Body
2. Leukopenia: Abnormally low white blood cell count
3. Infarct: Area of dead myocardial tissue
4. Lithiasis: Abnormal condition of stones
5. Menarche: Beginning of menstruation
6. Adipose tissue is made of: Fat cells
7. Orthopnea: Ability to breathe comfortably only when I'm an upright position
8. Gynecomastia: Abnormally large breasts in men
9. Rhinorrhea: Drainage from the nose
10. The Combining from cephal/o refers to the: Head
11. Onych-: Prefix pertaining to fingernail
12. Hidradenitis: Inflammation of a sweat gland
13. Exo-: Prefix meaning outside or outer