Axia College Material |
Appendix I | | | | | |
Building a Medical Vocabulary | | | |
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A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in questions 1-15. Provide the whole word for example heredit/o + -ary = hereditary |
| epi- | ab- | thalam/o- | -or | sacr/o- | -cyte |
| oste/o- | gustat/o- | -al | hypo- | pronat/o- | -ic |
| -delt/o- | oste/o | perone/o- | -itis | myel/o | -oid |
| appendicul/o- | compress/o | -ion | -ory | por/o | duct/o- |
| cost/o- | xiph/o- | -ar | -cervic/o | recept/o- | dur/o- |
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1. | Pertaining to the neck | Cervic/o- + -al = cervical |
2. | Action of moving (a body part) away (from body) | Ab- + duct/o- + -ion = abduction |
3. | Pertaining to a limb | Appendicul/o- + -ar = appendicular |
4. | Resembling a triangle | Delt/o- + -oid + deltoid |
5. | Action of lying face-down | Pronat/o- + -ion = pronation |
6. | Having a sense of taste | Gustat/o- + -ory = gustatory |
7. | Pertaining to below the thalamus | Hypo- + thalam/o- + -ic = hypothalamic |
8. | Cartilage resembling a sword | Xiph/o- + -oid = xiphoid |
9. | Type of fracture where the vertebra collapses in on itself | Compress/o- + -ion = compression |
10. | A thing (person) that receives | Recept/o- + -or = receptor |
11. | Pertaining to the sacrum | Sacr/o- + -al = sacral |
12. | Pertaining to a rib | Cost/o- + -al = costal |
13. | Pertaining to above the dura mater | Epi- + dur/o- + -al = epidural |
14. | Pertaining to the fibula | Fibul/o- + -ar = fibular |
15. | Infection in the bone and marrow | Oste/o- + myel/o- + -itis = osteomyelitis |
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B. Define the following word parts. |
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| hemi- | One half. | -clast | A cell that breaks down substances. | sen/o | Old age. |
| -eal | Pertaining to. | -ent | Pertaining to. | chondr/o | Cartilage. |
| -aris | Pertaining...