Prefixes
What is apart?
"-al" and "-ic"
What is "pertaining to?"
In the term "mortality," the root mortal means?
What is "human?"
a, e, i, o, u
What are "vowels?"
"antitussive"
What is "against cough?"
"ab-"
What is "away from?"
A syllable placed at the end of a word.
"stuck to"
What is "-adhes?"
This differentiates a "root from a combining form."
What is a "combining vowel?"
"pertaining to fever"
What is "febrile?"
What is the purpose of a prefix in medical terminology?
What is "to alter the meaning of a root?"
When giving the mean of a word, what do you usually begin with?
What is the suffix?
The foundation of a word
What is the "root?"
What is "o?"
"a prediction of the course of a disease"
What is "prognosis?"
What prefix would you add to the root and suffix "demic" to make it mean "upon the people?"
What is "epi-"
"forming"
What is "-ant?"
"necr"
What is "death?"
"heat, fire"
What is "pyr/o?"
"necrosis"
What is "abnormal condition of death?"
"chronous" means "pertaining to time." What prefix would you add to it to make a word that means "pertaining to time together?"
What is "syn-?"
"nature of"
What is "-ive?"
"armpit"
What is "axill?"
"enter/o"
What is "intestine?"
"diaphoresis"
What is "profuse sweating?"