Prefixes
Suffixes
Medical Terminology
Skeletal System
Health Careers
100

Pre-

What is before ?

100

-rrhea

What is flow or discharge?

100

Makes body movement possible, and also protects the organs of the digestive excretion and reproduction.

What is appendicular skeleton?

100

Is used to image soft tissue structures, such as the interior of complex joints. It is not the most effective method of imaging heart tissue, such as bone.

What is MRI?

100

Specialist who treats conditions of the heart

What is cardiologist?

200

dys-

What is bad, difficult, or painful?

200

-stenosis 

What is abnormal narrowing?

200

Consist of eight bones that form the cranium, 14 bones that formed the face, and six bones in the middle ear.

What is skull?

200

All of the parts of the knee were replaced

What is total knee replacement?

200

A specialist who treats conditions of the bone

What is orthopedics?

300

arter

What is artery?

300

-necrosis 

What is tissue death?

300

Abnormal lateral curvature of the spine

What is scoliosis?

300

Surgical incision are opening in the skull

What is craniotomy?

300

Neonatology

What is the study of the birth of newborns?

400

py/o

What is pus?

400

-algia

What is pain?

400

Inflammation of the surrounding tissue of the bone

What is periostitis?

400

Is a substitute for a diseased or missing body, part, such as a leg that has been amputated.

What is prosthesis?

400

Gerontology 

What is Specializes in the diseases of the elderly?

500

nat/o

What is birth?

500

-ologist

What is Specialist?

500

Death of the tissue of the bone

What is Osteonecrosos?

500

Is the surgical removal of a portion of the skull?

What is craniectomy?

500

A person who takes pictures of the body structure, using x-ray machines, MRIs, and ultrasounds

What is radiology technician?