CLA 131 Exam 1-QA 2022/2023

constructed terms - ANSWER made up of multiple word parts that are combined to form a new word eponym - ANSWER terms derived from the names of people nonconstructed terms - ANSWER terms that are not formed from ind ...

constructed terms - ANSWER made up of multiple word parts that are combined to form a new word eponym - ANSWER terms derived from the names of people nonconstructed terms - ANSWER terms that are not formed from individual word parts acronyms - ANSWER words derived from the first letters of words in a compound term prefix - ANSWER word part that is affixed to the beginning of a word word root - ANSWER a word part that provides the primary meaning of the term suffix - ANSWER word part that is affixed to the end of a word. combining vowel - ANSWER used when a word root requires a connecting vowel in order to add a suffix that begins with a consonant, or to add another word root, when forming a term combining form - ANSWER add a slash between the word root and the combining vowel o - ANSWER the most common combining vowel term ends in a - ANSWER the plural is usually formed by adding an e term ends in is - ANSWER the plural form is usually formed by changing the is to es term ends in itis - ANSWER the plural form is itides term ends in on or um - ANSWER the plural form drops the on or um and adds a term ends in ma - ANSWER the plural form is changed to mata term ends in y - ANSWER the plural form drops the y and adds the ending ies term ends in us - ANSWER the plural form drops the us and adds the ending i anti- - ANSWER against, opposite of brady- - ANSWER slow endo- - ANSWER within epi- - ANSWER upon, over, above, on top neo- - ANSWER new pre- - ANSWER to come before appendo/o, appendic/o - ANSWER appendix bi/o - ANSWER life cardi/o - ANSWER heart cerebr/o - ANSWER brain, cerebrum dermat/o - ANSWER skin electr/o - ANSWER electricity encephal/o - ANSWER brain gastr/o - ANSWER stomach hem/o - ANSWER blood hepat/o - ANSWER liver hyster/o - ANSWER uterus laryng/o - ANSWER voice box, largynx leuk/o - ANSWER white mamm/o - ANSWER breast mast/o - ANSWER breast ment/o - ANSWER mind nat/o - ANSWER birth neur/o - ANSWER nerve path/o - ANSWER disease proct/o - ANSWER rectum or anus psych/o - ANSWER mind rhin/o - ANSWER nose tonsill/o - ANSWER almond, tonsil vas/o - ANSWER vessel -al - ANSWER pertaining to -ectomy - ANSWER surgical excision, removal -emia - ANSWER condition of blood -gram - ANSWER a record or image -ia - ANSWER condition of -iatry - ANSWER treatment, specialty -ic - ANSWER pertaining to -itis - ANSWER inflammation -logist - ANSWER one who studies -logy - ANSWER study or science of -pathy - ANSWER disease -philia - ANSWER loving, affinity for -plasty - ANSWER surgical repair -scope - ANSWER instrument used for viewing -tic - ANSWER pertaining to -ous - ANSWER pertaining to -meter - ANSWER measures -drome - ANSWER run or running syn- - ANSWER together hemat - ANSWER blood -malacia - ANSWER softening -opsy - ANSWER view of -oxia - ANSWER condition of oxygen hypo- - ANSWER deficient, below -phil - ANSWER loving or affinity for -phagia - ANSWER eating or swallowing dys- - ANSWER bad, abnormal, painful or difficult -phasia - ANSWER speaking -physis - ANSWER growth -plegia - ANSWER paralysis quadri- - ANSWER four -oma - ANSWER tumor oste - ANSWER bone -statis - ANSWER standing still home/o - ANSWER sameness, unchanging -algia - ANSWER condition of pain arthr - ANSWER joint -asthenia - ANSWER weakness my/o - ANSWER muscle -atresia - ANSWER a closure or the absence of a normal body opening -cele - ANSWER hernia, swelling or protrustion mening/o - ANSWER membrane -dynia - ANSWER pain ten/o - ANSWER tendon anorex - ANSWER no appetite -osis - ANSWER condition of -ism - ANSWER condition of aden/o - ANSWER gland albin/o - ANSWER white lip - ANSWER fat -penia - ANSWER deficiency or abnormal reduction in number -phobia - ANSWER fear hydr/o - ANSWER water -plasia - ANSWER formation, growth -rrhagia - ANSWER abnormal discharge -rhea - ANSWER discharge -rrhexis - ANSWER rupture amnion - ANSWER encloses a featus -sclerosis - ANSWER condition of hardening anteri/o - ANSWER artery spasm - ANSWER sudden, involuntary muscle contraction -spasm - ANSWER sudden, involuntary muscle contraction bronch/o - ANSWER bronchi -ad - ANSWER toward ceph/o - ANSWER head