HTA - Medical Terminology

Prefixes

100

brady-

Slow

200

post-

After

300

neo-

New

400

hyper-

Above

500

tachy-

Fast, Rapid

Suffixes

100

-stomy

creating an opening

200

-emia

blood condition 

300

-rrhea

discharge

400

-genesis

Production, origin

500

-plasty

surgical repair

Combining Forms

100

enter/o

small intestine

200

cyan/o

blue

300

cyt/o

cell

400

path/o

disease

500

hydr/o

water

Medical Terms

100

Eponyms

A. Alzheimer's disease  

B. Achilles tendon

C. Cesarean delivery 

D. All of the above

D.  All of the above 

Eponyms - a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc. is named or thought to be named. pg 5

200

pericardium

A.  Blue veins in the heart

B. Heart Attack

C. Outer layers of the heart

D. membrane around the heart

D.  membrane around the heart

300

hepatomegaly

A. Heart Disease 

B. Abnormal enlargement of the liver

C. Crohn's 

D. IBS

B.  abnormal enlargement of the liver

400

nephronectomy

A. Liver surgery

B. Heart surgery 

C. Surgical removal of the kidneys.

D. None of the above 

C.  surgical removal of the kidneys.

500

neurofibroma

A. Tumors on the nose

B. Specificity of the nerves 

C. Fibrous tumors of tissues surrounding the nerve

D. None of the above 

C.  Fibrous tumors of tissues surrounding the nerve

Definitions

100

an abnormally high concentration of fats or lipids in the blood.

A. Hyperlipidemia

B. Hypertension 

C. Hypothyroidism

D. hypoliposis

A.  hyperlipidemia

200

temporary loss of sensation 

A. hypoliposis

B. heterotoxin

C. Anesthesia

D. rhinoplasty

C.  Anesthesia

300

Rupture of the heart wall 

A. Arrhythmias

B. congenital heart defects 

C. Atherosclerosis 

D. Cardiorrhexis

D.  Cardiorrhexis

 

400

Headache

A. Acromegaly 

B. Dehydration 

C. Cephalodynia

D. Lyme disease 

C.  cephalodynia

500

Runny Nose

A. Malaria 

B. Zika virus 

C. Walking pneumonia 

D. Rhinorrhea

D.  Rhinorrhea