MSC WEEK 1 TEST 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

MSC WEEK 1 TEST 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Parts of terminology

Prefix (beginning):

Root (middle):

Suffix (end): - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prefix: often about size, shape, color, direction, amount

Root: often relates to a part of the body

Suffix: can be about size, shape, color or problem



Prefixes:

bone:

muscle:

nerves:

skin:

blood vessels:

veins:

heart:

nose:

eardrum:

kidney:

skull:

eye:

ear:

blood clot:

liver:

breast:

large intestine:

stomach:

small intestine:

,chest:

lungs: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅bone: oste(o)

muscle: myo or sarco

nerves: neuro

skin: Derm

blood vessel: angi(o)

veins: ven(o) or phleb(o)

heart: cardio

nose: rhino

eardrum: tympan

kidney: neph

skull: crani

eye: ophthalm or oculo

ear: oto

blood clot: thromb(o)

liver: hepato

breast: mamm(o)

large intestine: colo

stomach: gastro

small intestine: ileo

chest: thorac(o)

lung: pneumo or pleuro

large: macro

small: micro

large/enlarged: megalo or megaly



Size and rates prefixes:

large:

small:

, large/enlarged:

high/elevated/above:

low/reduced/below:

fast/rapid:

slow/reduced: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅large: macro

small: micro

large/enlarged: megalo or megaly

high/elevated/above: hyper-

low/reduced/below: hypo-

fast/rapid: tachy-

slow/reduced: brady-



Color prefixes:

green:

white:

red:

blue: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅green: chloro-

white: leuk-

red: eryth-

blue: cyan-



Directional prefixes:

outside:

within:

between:

around:

across: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅outside: extra-

within: endo- or intra-

between: inter-