Prefixes, Suffixes, and Wood Roots
The word root meaning disease:
What is path/o?
PO BID meaning:
What is by mouth twice a day?
A fluid filled sac under the skin:
What is a cyst?
These are the terms for RBC and WBC:
What is erythrocyte and leukocyte?
These are the 3 types of tonsils:
What are palatine, pharyngeal, and lingual?
The prefix meaning slow:
What is brady-?
The stomach is found in this cavity:
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
This is one type of skin cancer:
What is basal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, or squamous cell carcinoma?
Deoxygenated blood is pumped from the right atrium to the right ventricle through this:
What is the tricuspid valve?
Lymphedema meaning...
What is swelling d/t obstruction in lymph flow?
The prefix meaning self:
What is auto-?
The movement toward the midline of the body:
What is adduction?
BONUS: Show me what pronation looks like!
Combining form for nail:
What is onchyo?
This is the difference between sclerosis and stenosis:
What is?
Sclerosis - thick/hardened
Stenosis - narrow
Word meaning pus in the chest cavity:
What is pyothorax?
The suffix meaning puncture to withdraw fluid:
What is -centesis?
This divides the body into upper and lower portions:
What is the transverse or horizontal plane?
BONUS: What are the other planes?
Osteomyelitis meaning...
What is bone and bone marrow inflammation?
This is the term for enlarged heart:
What is cardiomegaly?
Abnormal widening and thickening of fingers:
What is clubbing?
BONUS: What condition can we see this in?
The suffix meaning to cut into:
What is -otomy?
The knee is ______ to the foot:
What is proximal?
Study Tip: Remember your other directional terms!
There are these types of skeleton and the bones are covered by this:
What is axial and appendicular, and periosteum?
Who can get type O blood?
Everyone!
ABG meaning...
What is arterial blood gas?