Hth 210 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

word root - ANS foundation of a medical term and contains its primary meaning combining vowel/form - ANS Makes it easier to pronounce long terms, usually an O bi/o - ANS life carcin/o - ANS cancer cardi/o - ANS heart chem/o - ANS chemical cis/o - ANS to cut dermat/o - ANS skin enter/o - ANS small intestine gastr/o - ANS stomach gynec/o - ANS female hemat/...

abdomin/o - ANS abdomen adip/o - ANS fat aer/o - ANS air anter/o - ANS front brachi/o - ANS arm bucc/o - ANS cheek cardi/o - ANS heart caud/o - ANS tail cephal/o - ANS head cervic/o - ANS neck chondr/o - ANS cartilage crani/o - ANS skull crin/o - ANS to secrete crur/o - ANS leg cutane/o - ANS skin cyt/o ...

biopsy - ANS S) -opsy (to view) R) bi- (life) Removing tissue from a living person for lab examination carcinoma - ANS S) -oma (tumor, mass) R) carcin- (cancer) A malignant and invasive epithelial tumor cryosurgery - ANS S) -ery (process of) R) cryo- (icy cold) R) -surg- (operate) use of liquid nitrogen or argon gas in a probe to freeze and kill abnormal tissue cutaneous - ANS S) -ous (pertaining to) R/CF) cutan/e- (skin) Pertaini...

auscultation - ANS the process of listening to sounds within your body by using a stethoscope is known as sphygmomanometer - ANS is used for measuring blood pressure; also known as a blood pressure cuff stethoscope - ANS is an instrument for listening to body sounds, such as chest, heart, or intestines cardiac biomarkers - ANS a blood test to determine level of proteins specific to heart muscle in blood is called a serum lipoprotein level - ANS...

aort/o - ANS aorta valvul/o - ANS valve ather/o - ANS fatty substance pector/o - ANS chest fibrin/o - ANS fibers electr/o - ANS electricity lip/o - ANS fat vas/o - ANS vessel sept/o - ANS a wall hem/o - ANS blood embol/o - ANS plug varic/o - ANS dilated vein phleb/o - ANS vein valv/o - ANS valve scler/o - ANS ...

aer/o - ANS air alveol/o - ANS alveolus anthrac/o - ANS coal atel/o - ANS incomplete bronch/o, bronchi/o - ANS bronchus coni/o - ANS dust cyan/o - ANS blue cyst/o - ANS sac diaphragmat/o - ANS diaphragm epiglott/o - ANS epiglottis hal/o - ANS to breathe laryng/o - ANS larynx lob/o - ANS lobe muc/o - ANS mucus nas/o, ...

Abdomen or Abdominal (pl) - ANS Part of the trunk between thorax and pelvis. Pertaining to the abdomen -Latin: Abdomen R) Abdomin- abdomen S) -al (pertaining to) Anatomy - ANS Study of the structures of the human body R) Ana- (apart from) S) -tomy (process of separating) Anatomical - ANS Pertaining to anatomy R) Ana- (apart from) S) -tomy (process of separating) S) -ical (pertaining to) Anterior - ANS The front surface of the body; situat...

The combining form that means "life" is - ANS bi/o The combining form that means "cancer" is - ANS carcin/o The combining form that means "heart" is - ANS cardi/o The combining form that means "chemical" is - ANS chem/o The combining form that means "to cut" is - ANS cis/o The combining form that means "skin" is - ANS dermat/o The combining form that means "small intestine" is - ANS enter/o T...

plug (combining form) - ANS embol/o muscle (combining form) - ANS my/o clot (combining form) - ANS thromb/o vein (combining form) - ANS phleb/o, ven/o atrium (combining form) - ANS atri/o fibers (combining form) - ANS fibrin/o, fibr/o a wall (combining form) - ANS sept/o to hold back (combining form) - ANS isch/o fatty substance (combining form) - ANS ather/o skin (combining form)...

myocardial infarction (MI) - ANS occlusion of coronary artery; results in a myocardial infarct; a heart attack orthostatic hypotension - ANS sudden drop in blood pressure when standing up suddenly pericarditis - ANS inflammation of pericardial sac coronary artery disease (CAD) - ANS poor blood supply to heart muscle due to obstruction of coronary arteries; may cause angina pectoris and heart attack angina pectoris - ANS severe pain an...