MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY LEARNING THROUGH PRACTICE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS.pdf

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY LEARNING THROUGH
PRACTICE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

◉ ather/o.
Answer: plaque; fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel)


◉ blast/o.
Answer: immature cells


◉ calc/o, calci/o.
Answer: calcium


◉ chondrio, chondro.
Answer: cartilage, grainy, gritty


◉ chyl/o.
Answer: chyle, a digestive juice


◉ chym/o.
Answer: chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

,◉ cyst/o, cyst/i.
Answer: bladder, cyst, cystic duct


◉ cyt/o.
Answer: cell


◉ ethm/o.
Answer: ethmoid bone


◉ gli/o.
Answer: glue


◉ gluc/o.
Answer: glucose


◉ glyc/o.
Answer: sugars


◉ hydr/o.
Answer: hydrogen, water

,◉ ket/o, keton/o.
Answer: ketone, acetone


◉ lip/o.
Answer: fat (outside of a blood vessel)


◉ nucle/o.
Answer: nucleus


◉ plasma, plasmo.
Answer: formative; plasma


◉ salping/o.
Answer: tube


◉ sider/o.
Answer: iron


◉ somat/o.
Answer: body


◉ squam/o.

, Answer: scale; squamous (meaning scaly)


◉ syring/o.
Answer: tube


◉ ceph/o.
Answer: head


◉ itis.
Answer: inflammation


◉ ectomy.
Answer: removal


◉ oma.
Answer: cancer or tumor


◉ genesis/poesis.
Answer: production


◉ penia.
Answer: deficiency