Medical term structure
Prefixes & Suffixes
Word Roots & Combining Forms
Medical Terms
Body Structure
100
This is the foundation of a medical term.
What is the word root?
100
The prefix that means “high” or “excessive”
What is Hyper?
100
The combining form that pertains to the skin.
What is Derm/o?
100
The medical term that means "inflammation of a joint".
What is arthritis?
100
This tissue supports and connects other tissues and organs.
What is connective tissue?
200
This portion of a medical term usually describes the pathology of the disease, symptom, procedure or part of speech.
What is the suffix?
200
The suffix that means "inflammation"
What is -itis?
200
This word root refers to the blood.
What is hemat?
200
This medical term literally means “without breathing”
What is Apnea?
200
The study of the body at a cellular level.
What is cytology?
300
This indicates the number, time, position, direction or negation within a medical term.
What is the prefix?
300
The suffix that means tumor.
What is -oma?
300
The combining forms gluc/o or glyc/o refer to this.
What is sugar, sweetness?
300
The medical term for "slow heartbeat"
What is bradycardia?
300
This body quadrant contains the right lobe of the liver, gallbladder, part of the pancreas, and part of the small and large intestines.
What is the Right Upper Quadrant or RUQ?
400
A letter added to a word root, usually an "O" but sometimes it can be an "I" creates this.
What is the combining form?
400
The prefix that means “difficulty”
What is Dys?
400
The combining form nephr/o relates to this organ.
What is the kidney?
400
The medical term for "difficult digestion".
What is dyspepsia?
400
This body plane divides the body into superior and anterior parts.
What is the transverse plane?
500
These roots build words that describe a disease, condition, treatment or diagnosis.
What are Greek roots?
500
This prefix means “near”, “beside” or “beyond”
What is Para?
500
This combining form relates to the gallbladder.
What is cholecyst/o?
500
This medical term means "lying horizontal with face downward".
What is prone?
500
This body cavity contains the heart, lungs and associated structures.
What is the thoracic cavity?
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