CSCC FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS COMPLETE
PREPARATION KIT
●● Found at the end of a medical term. Provides information including
conditions, diseases, surgical procedures, and diagnostic procedures
involving the word root. ALL MEDICAL TERMS MUST CONTAIN A
SUFFIX!!
Answer: Suffix
●● Found at the beginning of a medical term. It often indicates info such
as abnormal conditions, numbers, positions, and times.
Answer: Prefix
●● Used for two reasons: to connect word parts and to make medical
terms easier to spell and pronounce. Placed between a word root and a
suffix or between two word roots. NOT USED BETWEEN A PREFIX
AND A WORD ROOT!! Do NOT use between a word root and a suffix
if the suffix begins with a vowel. Put a combining vowel between two
word roots always.
Answer: Combining Vowel
●● pain
Answer: -algia
,●● weakness
Answer: -asthenia
●● hernia, protrusion
Answer: -cele
●● pain
Answer: -dynia
●● abnormal cell condition (too many)
Answer: -cytosis
●● dilated, stretched out
Answer: ectasis
●● swelling
Answer: -edema
●● vomiting
Answer: -emesis
,●● condition of the blood
Answer: -emia
●● state, condition
Answer: -ia
●● abnormal condition
Answer: -iasis
●● state of, condition
Answer: -ism
●● inflammation
Answer: -itis
●● stone
Answer: -lith
●● destruction
Answer: -lysis
●● destruction
, Answer: -lytic
●● abnormal softening
Answer: -malacia
●● enlargement
Answer: -megaly
●● tumor, mass
Answer: -oma
●● abnormal condition
Answer: -osis
●● disease
Answer: -pathy
●● too few
Answer: -penia
●● fear
Answer: -phobia
ACCURATE ANSWERS COMPLETE
PREPARATION KIT
●● Found at the end of a medical term. Provides information including
conditions, diseases, surgical procedures, and diagnostic procedures
involving the word root. ALL MEDICAL TERMS MUST CONTAIN A
SUFFIX!!
Answer: Suffix
●● Found at the beginning of a medical term. It often indicates info such
as abnormal conditions, numbers, positions, and times.
Answer: Prefix
●● Used for two reasons: to connect word parts and to make medical
terms easier to spell and pronounce. Placed between a word root and a
suffix or between two word roots. NOT USED BETWEEN A PREFIX
AND A WORD ROOT!! Do NOT use between a word root and a suffix
if the suffix begins with a vowel. Put a combining vowel between two
word roots always.
Answer: Combining Vowel
●● pain
Answer: -algia
,●● weakness
Answer: -asthenia
●● hernia, protrusion
Answer: -cele
●● pain
Answer: -dynia
●● abnormal cell condition (too many)
Answer: -cytosis
●● dilated, stretched out
Answer: ectasis
●● swelling
Answer: -edema
●● vomiting
Answer: -emesis
,●● condition of the blood
Answer: -emia
●● state, condition
Answer: -ia
●● abnormal condition
Answer: -iasis
●● state of, condition
Answer: -ism
●● inflammation
Answer: -itis
●● stone
Answer: -lith
●● destruction
Answer: -lysis
●● destruction
, Answer: -lytic
●● abnormal softening
Answer: -malacia
●● enlargement
Answer: -megaly
●● tumor, mass
Answer: -oma
●● abnormal condition
Answer: -osis
●● disease
Answer: -pathy
●● too few
Answer: -penia
●● fear
Answer: -phobia