Medical Terminology-HOSA Questions and Answers Graded A+

Medical Terminology-HOSA Questions and Answers Graded A+ onc - ANS- tumor carcin - ANS- cancer cyt - ANS- cell epitheli - ANS- epithelium hist - ANS- tissue lip - ANS- fat my - ANS- muscle neur - ANS- nerves path - ANS- disease plasm - ANS- growth sarc - ANS- flesh or connective tissue stasis - ANS- stop or control viscer - ANS- internal organs -al - ANS- pertaining to -genic - ANS- producing or causing -logist - ANS- specialist (physician) who studies and treats -logy - ANS- the study of -oid - ANS- resembling -oma - ANS- tumor -a, -e, -y - ANS- no meaning meta- - ANS- beyond neo- - ANS- new -itis - ANS- inflammation intra- - ANS- within ven - ANS- vein -ous - ANS- pertaining to oste - ANS- bone arthr - ANS- joint trache - ANS- trachea poly - ANS- many cyt - ANS- cell dx - ANS- diagnosis px - ANS- prognosis chemo - ANS- chemotherapy CA - ANS- cancer METS - ANS- metastasis XRT - ANS- radiation therapy anatomic position - ANS- face forward, feet front and palms forward anter - ANS- front caud - ANS- tail (downward) cephal - ANS- head (upward) dist - ANS- away (from the point of attachment of a body part) dors - ANS- back infer - ANS- below later - ANS- side medi - ANS- middle poster - ANS- back or behind proxim - ANS- near (the point of attachment of a body part) super - ANS- above ventr - ANS- belly (front) -ad - ANS- toward -ic or -ior - ANS- pertaining to transverse - ANS- ________ sagittal - ANS- | benign - ANS- not cancerous, but are deadly because they grow very big chemotherapy - ANS- treatment of cancer by using pharmaceuticals; AB- chemo diagnosis - ANS- identification of a disease inflammation - ANS- protective response of body tissue characterized by redness, swelling, heat and pain malignant - ANS- tending to become progressively worse, possibly resulting in death prognosis - ANS- prediction of a possible outcome of a disease radiation therapy - ANS- treatment of cancer with a radioactive substance; X-ray or radiation remission - ANS- lessening or absence of signs of disease