Word Building & Rules
What word part links a suffix that begins with a vowel?
What is a Word Root (WR)?
What suffix means "visual examination"?
What is -scopy?
What is subjective evidence of a disease evaluated only by the patient (e.g., pain)?
What is a symptom?
What plural suffix replaces "-a" (such as bursa)?
What is "-ae" (e.g., bursae)?
Most medical terms originate from these two languages.
What are Latin and Greek?
What word part links a suffix that begins with a consonant?
What is a Combining Form (CF)?
Prefixes like "sub-" and "peri-" indicate this type of information.
What is location (e.g., under, around)?
What is objective evidence of a disease observed by a patient or physician (e.g., fever)?
What is a sign?
Singular terms ending in "-is" (like diagnosis) change to this plural ending.
What is "-es" (e.g., diagnoses)?
What is the scientific study of language and its structure?
What is linguistics?
What is the first step when defining a medical term?
What is defining the suffix first?
Prefixes such as "pre-" and "post-" indicate this relation.
What is time (before and after)?
What term describes a prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease?
What is a prognosis?
Words ending in "-us" (like thrombus) change to this suffix in plural form.
What is "-i" (e.g., thrombi)?
This type of condition features a rapid onset along with a short, severe duration.
What is an acute condition?
True or False: A Combining Form links a root to another root even if the second root begins with a vowel.
What is True?
In the word "cranium", the suffix "-um" indicates this part of speech or structure.
What is a Latin noun suffix?
What do you call a disease or clarifying term named after a person, like Alzheimer's?
What is an eponym?
Singular endings "-on" or "-um" change to this ending in plural form.
What is "-a" (e.g., ganglia, bacteria)?
This type of condition is long-standing or long-term.
What is a chronic condition?
What do you call a Combining Form without its combining vowel /o?
What is a Word Root (WR)?
The prefixes "a-" and "an-" mean this.
What is without or not?
What term describes a set of signs and symptoms that occur together as part of a specific disease process?
What is a syndrome?
What plural suffix replaces "-nx" (such as phalanx)?
What is "-nges" (e.g., phalanges)?
Combining the Greek roots "path/o" (suffering) and "logos" (study) forms this field.
What is Pathology?