ALHS 1090

prefix correct answers A syllable placed at the beginning of a word is called a suffix correct answers an affix that is added at the end of the word O correct answers In building medical terms, the combining vowel most often used is Charles needs to use a word to describe inflammation of a ...

Which combining form means white? correct answers leuk/o Based on its word parts, the term cardiorrhexis means ____. correct answers rupture of the heart In the term pericardiectomy, the word part -ectomy is a ____. correct answers suffix Which term describes a torn, ragged wound? correct a...

acuity correct answers clearness or sharpness of a sensory function adren/o correct answers adrenal glands arteri/o correct answers artery ascites correct answers abnormal accumulation of fluid in the stomach aur/o correct answers ear bronch/o correct answers bronchus cardi/o corre...

Aden/o correct answers gland Adren/o correct answers Adrenal glands Ankyl/o correct answers Stiffness, bent, crooked Andr/o correct answers male Aort/o correct answers aorta arteri/o correct answers artery arthr/o correct answers joint Atel/o correct answers Incomplete, imperfec...

anti- correct answers against, opposite of brady- correct answers slow endo- correct answers within micro- correct answers small neo- correct answers new pre- correct answers to come before epi- correct answers upon, over, above, on top append/o, appendic/o correct answers appen...

Medical Terminology correct answers Specialized language used by health care providers. Four elements are used to build medical words: - Word root (WR) - Combining form (CF) - Suffix - Prefix Medical Terminology correct answers Three rules of word building. - Defining medical words. - Pr...

word root, prefix, suffix, combining vowel correct answers the four word parts in a medical term word root correct answers foundation of the medical term; usually a system or part of the body combining vowel correct answers makes it possible to pronounce long terms "o" correct answers mos...

what is a word root? correct answers foundation of the word that contains its main meaning What is a Combining Form? correct answers created when a word root is combined with a vowel (combining vowel), has no meaning of its own What is a Suffix? correct answers word element placed at the end o...

Alveol/o correct answers air sac, alveolus Laryng/o correct answers voice box, Larynx Pharyng/o correct answers throat, pharynx Pleuro/o correct answers pleura, rib Pneumo/o correct answers air, lung Thorac/o correct answers chest,thorax Trache/o correct answers windpipe, trachea ...

constructed terms correct answers made up of multiple word parts that are combined to form a new word eponym correct answers a person whose name is, or is thought to be, the source of the name of something (non constructed terms) nonconstructed terms correct answers terms that are not formed f...

-lysis correct answers destruction -genesis correct answers creation -oma correct answers tumor -rrhage correct answers bursting forth coronary artery disease (CAD) correct answers narrowing of the lumen, or inner open space of a vessel, of heart arteries due to arteriosclerosis and athe...