Rules
In the Beginning
The Middle
In the End
What?
100
I form medical words
What is elements or parts
100
I am at the beginning of a word
What is prefix?
100
Abdomin/o
What is abdomen
100
-gram
What is record, writing.
100
Nucleophobia
What is fear of nuclei?
200
A word root and a vowel form?
What is combining form
200
A prefix indicates
What is a number, time, position, or negation.
200
Dors/o
What is back (of the body)
200
-graph
What is instrument for recording.
200
Chondroma
What is tumor composed of cartilage?
300
Word Root indicates
What is body part?
300
In, within
What is endo-
300
Inguin/o
What is groin?
300
-cele
What is hernia, swelling.
300
Proximal
What is pertaining to the nearest point.
400
To build a medical word, use a Combining Form before a suffix that begins with a:
What is a consonant?
400
Through or across
What is Trans
400
Fluor/o
What is luminous, fluorescence.
400
-iasis
What is abnormal condition?
400
Caudad
What is toward the tail, in a posterior direction?
500
A CF that links a root to another root is a
What is a compound word.
500
Epi-
What is above or upon.
500
Ventr/o
What is belly, belly side.
500
-plegia
What is paralysis?
500
Histolysis
What is separation, destruction or loosening of tissue?
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