Basic Elements of a Medical Word
The word root for kidney
What is nephr?
The second part of a medical term
What is the middle or rule3?
The medical word Osteochondritis
What is a compound word?
Describes a place or location
What is a prefix of position?
Ex: hypodermic
Seals off the air passage to the lungs during swallowing
What is the epiglottis?
The word root for stomach
What is stomach?
The first part of the word
What is the second rule?
The medical word hepatocyte
What is a combining form?
Describes an amount, size, or degree
What is a prefix of number and measurement?
Ex: bi= two
hemi= one half
The structure that make vocal sounds possible
What is the larynx?
The suffix for inflammation
What is itis?
A word root links a suffix that begins with
What is a vowel?
The medical word hepatitis
What is a word root?
Describes a pathway or route?
What is a prefix of direction?
ab (abduction away from the midline axis)
ad (adduction toward the midline axis)
Also know as the windpipe
What is the trachea?
The suffix for cells
What is cyte?
A combining form (root+o) links a suffix
What is a consonant?
The medical word arthrocentesis
What is brady?
Space between the right and left lung?
What is the mediastinum?