,Contents
Part One: The Basics
Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
Chapter 2. Suffixes and Combining Forms Made Easy Chapter
3. Essential Prefixes and More
Chapter 4. Diagnostic Procedures and Therapeutic Interventions
Chapter 5. The Body as a Whole
Part Two: Body Systems
Chapter 6. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 7. Circulatory System Chapter
8. Respiratory System Chapter 9.
Digestive System Chapter 10. Urinary
System Chapter 11. Reproductive
System Chapter 12. Integumentary
System
Chapter 13. Nervous System and Psychologic Disorders
Chapter 14. Special Sensory Organs of the Peripheral Nervous System Chapter
15. Endocrine System
,Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
1. What is the main body of a word called?
A) Prefix
B) Suffix
C) Word root
D) Combining form
Answer: C) Word root
2. A combining form can be recognized by which symbol?
A) Hyphen before the word
B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
C) Hyphen after the word
D) Parentheses around the word
Answer: B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
3. What does a word root + a combining vowel equal?
, A prefix
A) A suffix
B) A combining form
C) An eponym
Answer: C) A combining form
4. Which vowel is most frequently used as a combining vowel?
A) a
B) e
C) i
D) o
Answer: D) o
5. What is placed before a word to modify its meaning?
A) Suffix
B) Prefix
C) Word root
D) Combining vowel
Answer: B) Prefix
6. What is attached to the end of a word or word root to modify its meaning?
A) Prefix
B) Word root
C) Suffix
D) Combining vowel
Answer: C) Suffix
7. How is a prefix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: A) With a hyphen after it
8. How is a suffix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
Part One: The Basics
Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
Chapter 2. Suffixes and Combining Forms Made Easy Chapter
3. Essential Prefixes and More
Chapter 4. Diagnostic Procedures and Therapeutic Interventions
Chapter 5. The Body as a Whole
Part Two: Body Systems
Chapter 6. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 7. Circulatory System Chapter
8. Respiratory System Chapter 9.
Digestive System Chapter 10. Urinary
System Chapter 11. Reproductive
System Chapter 12. Integumentary
System
Chapter 13. Nervous System and Psychologic Disorders
Chapter 14. Special Sensory Organs of the Peripheral Nervous System Chapter
15. Endocrine System
,Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
1. What is the main body of a word called?
A) Prefix
B) Suffix
C) Word root
D) Combining form
Answer: C) Word root
2. A combining form can be recognized by which symbol?
A) Hyphen before the word
B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
C) Hyphen after the word
D) Parentheses around the word
Answer: B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
3. What does a word root + a combining vowel equal?
, A prefix
A) A suffix
B) A combining form
C) An eponym
Answer: C) A combining form
4. Which vowel is most frequently used as a combining vowel?
A) a
B) e
C) i
D) o
Answer: D) o
5. What is placed before a word to modify its meaning?
A) Suffix
B) Prefix
C) Word root
D) Combining vowel
Answer: B) Prefix
6. What is attached to the end of a word or word root to modify its meaning?
A) Prefix
B) Word root
C) Suffix
D) Combining vowel
Answer: C) Suffix
7. How is a prefix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: A) With a hyphen after it
8. How is a suffix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
