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Chapter 1 Concepts of Medical Terminology

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Medical terminology is based on what languages?

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Based on Latin and Greek words

Muscle is Latin for ‘mouse’

Coccyx named for the cuckoo’s bill

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Fundamental unit of each medical word
Establishes basic meaning of word
Part to which prefixes and suffixes are added

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Root

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Short word part or parts added to the end of a word
Modifies the meaning of the root
Indicated by a dash before (-itis)

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Suffix

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Short word part added before a root
Modifies the meaning of the root
Followed by a dash (pre-)

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Prefix

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Roots shown with a combining vowel are called?

Vowels added after a slash

Neur/o

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Combining Forms

-logy = “study of”

Neur = “nerve or nervous system”

Neur/o

Neur + o + logy = neurology (study of the nervous system)

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When you add a suffix to a word ending in x, the x is changed to a?

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g or c

g = consonant before the x change to g

Ex. Pharynx (throat) becomes pharyngeal = pertaining to throat

c = vowel before the x change to c
Ex. thorax (chest) becomes thoracic = pertaining to chest

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If there is a consonant before the x, the x is changed to a?

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g

pharynx becomes pharyngeal

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If a vowel comes before the x, the x is changed to a?

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c

thorax becomes thoracotomy

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When you add a suffix beginning with rh to a root, the r is?

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doubled

Hem/o (blood) + -rhage (bursting forth) = hemorrhage (a bursting forth of blood)

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abbreviation formed from first letter of each word in a phrase

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Acronym =

ASAP = as soon as possible

FDA = Food and Drug Administration

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A word that contains more than one root

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Compound word

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Vowels with no pronunciation marks get ______ pronunciation?

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short

‘a’ as in hat
'e' as in get
'i' as in hit
'o' as in pot

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Short line over vowel gives it ______ pronunciation?

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long
‘ā’ as in say
‘ē’ as in pēte
‘ī’ as in kīte
‘ō’ as in tōne

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indicated with capital letters
as in AK-sent

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Accented syllable

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Hard or soft?

racer

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Soft c

(RĀ-ser)

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Hard or soft?

candy

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Hard c

(KAN-dē)

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Hard or soft?

page

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Soft g

written as j = (pāj)

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Hard or soft?

grow

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Hard g

(grō)

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cervix

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neck

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®

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right

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cardi

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heart

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pulm

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lung

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-logy

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“study of”

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Neur

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“nerve or nervous system”

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Neur + o + logy

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neurology

(study of the nervous system)

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itis

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inflammation

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Neur + itis

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neuritis (inflammation of a nerve)

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Hem/o

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blood

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-rhage

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bursting forth

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Hem/o + -rhage

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hemorrhage

a bursting forth of blood

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gast/o

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stomach