Chapter 1 - Intro to Medical Language
The combining vowel that is most commonly used
What is "o"?
This is the combining form for cell
What is cyt/o
This cavity contains the kidneys.
What is abdominal cavity.
A person with onychomycosis would have this condition of the nails.
What is fungus?
An oximeter is used to measure this gas.
What is oxygen?
This is a term that is derived from a person or place.
What is an eponym?
This describes the color cyanosis
What is bluish color?
This term means pertaining to the tail.
What is caudal?
The combining forms cutaneo/o, dermo/, and dermat/o all mean this.
What is skin?
This is the term for the throat.
What is pharynx?
This part of the word is considered the core of the word.
What is the word root?
This is the meaning of the word oncology
What is the "study of tumors?"
The liver is located in which quadrant?
What is RUQ?
The combining form strept/o means this
What is twisted chains?
Someone with rhinorrhagia would have a rapid flow of blood from this.
What is the nose?
This word part is attached to the beginning of a word root to modify its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This is the term for a red blood cell.
What is erythrocyte?
The plane that divides the body into right and left sides.
What is the sagittal plane?
A person having a rhytidectomy would be having an excision of this.
What is wrinkles?
Someone with a hemothorax has this problem.
What is blood in the chest cavity?
This is what we call a word root with the combining vowel attached.
What is a combining form?
A substance that causes cancer would be considered this.
What is a carcinogen?
This region is located directly below the umbilical region.
What is hypogastric?
The term diaphoresis means this.
What is sweating?
A patient with orthopnea has this issue.
What is shortness of breath when lying down?