Word Parts
This part of a medical term provides the core meaning of the word.
(What is the word root?)
This prefix means "against" and is used to describe a certain class of medicines.
(What is anti-?)
The suffix “-logy” means this.
(What is the study of?)
Gastritis is an inflammation of what?
(What is the stomach?)
This is the singular of bacteria.
(What is bacterium?)
The vowel, usually “o,” that links a root to a suffix or another root.
(What is a combining vowel?)
This prefix means "half" and is often used in terms related to paralysis.
(What is hemi-?)
The suffix “-pathy” is related to this medical concept.
(What is disease?)
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of what?
(What is heart muscle)
This is the name of the museum we will be visiting next Wednesday.
(What is the Russel Museum?)
The prefix “brady-” means this.
(What is slow?)
The prefix that means "within" or "inside."
(What is endo-?)
The suffix “-ectomy” refers to this type of procedure.
(What is surgical removal?)
This term describes a condition of having a low red blood cell count.
(What is anemia?)
This is often abbreviated as EKG, even though there is no "k" in this word.
(What is an electrocardiogram?)
The suffix “-itis” refers to
(What is a condition)
This prefix is used to show that there is a difficulty in something operating correctly
(what is dys-)
The suffix "-scope" refers to this.
(What is medically observing something inside of the body)
If someone has tachycardia, what is wrong with their heart?
Beating too quickly.
A glucagon-like peptide-1, usually found in weight-loss drugs, is often abbreviated like this.
The prefix “hyper-” means this.
(What is excessive or above normal?)
This Latin based prefix means "outside" or "beyond"
(What is extra)
The suffix “-megaly” means this.
(What is enlargement?)
This is what is removed during a cholecystectomy.
(What is the gallbladder?)
The plural of “thorax.”
(What is thoraces?)