Suffix/Prefix
Suffix that means inflammation
What is -itis
Leading cause of death of the elderly
What are fall?
A doctor for the nervous system
What is a neurologist?
Doctor that corrects or prevents misaligned teeth
What is an orthodontist?
Suffix that means condition
What is -ia?
The most common emergency signal
What is the brain stem?
A doctor who treats skin disease
What is a dermatologist?
Doctor who treat diseases and disorders of the digestive system
What is a gastroenterologist?
What is -cide
The freezing of body tissue
What is frostbite?
The colored part of the eye
What is the iris?
Axial skeleton and Appendicular skeleton
What are the two major parts of the skeletal system?
Muscular tube that connects the pharynx with the stomach
What is the esophogus?
Prefix that means heat
What is thermo-?
The two types of fires to never use water on
What are electrical and grease fires?
Eating disorder that involves self-induced starvation
What is anorexia nervosa?
Large spongy organs in the thoracic cavity
What are the lungs?
Suffix that means eye
What is -op or -ops?
The weather phenomenon that kills the most people
What are floods?
The two types of nerves in the peripheral nervous system
What are the cranial and spinal nerves?
Rigid bone that supports most of the body's weight
What is the pelvic girdle?
Prefix that means dark
What is melan- or melano-?
A serious reduction in the body's water level
What is dehydration?
Bundle of fibers through which the brain communicates with the rest of the body
What is the spinal cord?
The wasting away of muscle through lack of use
What is atrophy?
Suffix that means something that produces
What is -gen?
Traffic accidents
What is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States?
Sensory receptors responsible for sensations of heat and cold
What are thermoreceptors?
Muscles that increase the angle between the bones of the joints
What are extensors?
What is my- or myo?
Best drown proofing method technique to use in choppy water
What is the survival float?
The white of the eye
What is the sclera?
Connective tissue that connects muscle to bone
What is a tendon?
Prefix that means fat or fatty
What is -lip or -lipo?
Dangerous surface current
What is a rip current?
Sensory receptors responsible for the sensations of smell and taste
What are chemoreceptors?
Circulation that involves movement of blood through all parts except the lungs
Prefix that refers to bones
What is osteo-?
Below normal body temperature
What is hypothermia?
Part of the brain that coordinates complex movements
What is the cerebellum?
Chemical and physical process that burns food and generates energy
What is metabolism?
The prefix that means heart
What is cardio-
Inflammation of skin
What is dermatitis?
The nerve system responsible for functions you can control (voluntary)
What is the somatic nervous system?
The body's largest artery
What is the aorta?
What is hepat- or hepato?
The only types of poisonous snakes in North America
What are pit vipers and coral snakes
The body's largest veins
What is the vena cavae?
Weather phenomenon during which you should seek underground shelter
What is a tornado
Parts the CNS (central nervous system) is composed of
What are the spinal cord and brain?
The body's largest internal organ
What is the liver?
Controls memory and thought
What is the cerebrum?
Part of the brain that controls sensory information
What is the cerebrum?