Origins of Medical Terms
Formed from the first letters of words in a phrase and spoken as a whole word.
What is an acronym?
This is the core of a medical term.
What is the word root?
The combining form hist/o means this.
What is tissue?
This combining form means muscle.
What is my/o?
The study of tumors
What is oncology
A medical term named for a person or place is called this.
What is an eponym?
This word part is attached at the end of a word root.
What is a suffix?
The combining form cyt/o means this.
What is cell?
This combining form means fat or fat tissue.
What is lip/o?
A physician who studies and treats tumors
What is oncologist?
LASIK is an example of this origin of medical language.
What is an acronym?
This word part is attached at the beginning of a word root.
What is a prefix?
The combining form neur/o means this type of tissue.
What is nerve tissue?
A tumor composed of nerve tissue is called this.
What is a neuroma?
The study of disease.
What is Pathology?
Arthritis is listed as an example of terms built from this language origin.
What are Greek and Latin?
A word root presented with its combining vowel is called this.
What is a combining form?
Viscer/al literally means this.
What is pertaining to internal organs?
A tumor composed of muscle tissue is called this.
What is a myoma?
Pertaining to a system.
What is systemic
Posttraumatic stress disorder is an example of this origin of medical language.
What is modern language?
When translating a term built from word parts, this word part is usually translated first.
What is the suffix?
Oste/o/arthr/itis means this.
What is inflammation of the bone and joint?
This tumor of connective tissue usually indicates a highly malignant tumor.
What is a sarcoma?
Enlargement of an organ.
What is organomegaly?