Term Anatomy
Elements of a medical term are what?
The individual parts of the word. (I.e. prefix, root, suffix)
What medical term describes a "small organ"?
Organelle
-elle = small
Name 3 functions of the integumentary system.
protection, water resistance, thermoregulation, vitamin D synthesis, sensation, excretion/secretion, and social functions.
Osteopath means what?
Disease of the bone
Osteo- (bone)/-path (disease)
What medical term best describes "pertaining to the heart"?
Cardiac or Cardial
Cardi- (heart)/-ac or -al (pertaining to)
What medical term describes the study of?
-Logy
Break down all the parts of the term "Ribonucleic"
Ribo/nucle/ic
Ribo- (Ribose sugar)/Nucle- (nucleus)/-ic (pertaining to)
The "action of producing" something is what medical term?
Secrection
Secret- (produce)/-ion (action)
What is the Latin term for shoulder?
Humerus
Fascia is Latin for what?
A band
The plural version of a term that ends in -a is what?
-ae
Ex) Axilla -> Axillae
Name all 4 major types of tissue
Muscle, nervous, epithelial, and connective
Deconstruct and define the term vasoconstriction.
The action of narrowing blood vessels
Vas/o- (blood vessel)/-constrict- (narrow)/-ion (action)
Deconstruct and define the epiphysis
To grow upon or above
Epi- (above or upon)/-physis (grow)
Deconstruct and define the term peristalsis.
To constrict around something
peri- (around)/-stalsis (constrict)
The plural form of a term ending in -ma is what?
-mata
Ex) Carcinoma -> Carcinomata
What medical term describes "the study of developmental structural defects"?
Dysmorphology
Dys- (difficult, bad, wrong)/-morph- (form)/-logy (study of)
The rule of nines is a medical formula that is applied to what?
Calculate the extent of the body surface affected in a burn patient.
What is a freely moving and egg-shaped joint called?
Synovial
Syn- (together)/-ovi- (egg-shaped)/-al (pertaining to)
What muscle has three heads/points of origin?
Triceps brachii
Tri- (three)/-ceps (heads) brachi/i (of the arm)
What medical term describes "disease of the heart muscles"?
Cardiomyopathy
Cardio-(heart)/-myo-(muscle)/-pathy(disease)
Name all of the organ systems in the body. (Hint: there are 11)
Integumentary, muscular, nervous, lymphatic, circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive, urinary, and endocrine.
What is the medical term for "the spread of disease from one part of the body to another part"?
Metastasize
Meta- (beyond)/-stasis- (stay in one place)/-ize (affect in a specific way)
List 10 bones in the skull
Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, mandible, maxilla, nasal, palentine, zygomatic, lacrimal, inferior nasal conchae, and vomer.
Pronounce the word gastrocnemius
gas-TROK-knee-me-us