Purpose and Origins
Medical language allows professionals to be clear, quick, and provide this to patients.
What is comfort?
This is the main idea of a medical term.
This is the main idea of a medical term.
The suffix '-itis' means this.
What is inflammation?
Stress is usually placed on this syllable in medical words.
What is the third-to-last syllable?
This word part gives essential meaning to the medical term.
What is the suffix?
Most medical language comes from these two ancient languages.
What are Greek and Latin?
Roots often function like this part of speech.
What are nouns?
The suffix 'algia' means this.
What is pain?
The 'ultima' is this syllable.
What is the last syllable?
This part is always present in a medical term.
What is the Root?
Eponyms and acronyms are examples of these sources of terms.
What are modern add-ins?
The combining vowel is usually this letter.
What is 'o'?
The prefix 'tachy-' means this
What is fast?
Words ending in '-a' are made plural by adding this letter
What is 'e'?
This part modifies the root and appears at the beginning.
What is the prefix?
Latin was used because these languages don't change over time.
What are dead languages?
'Myc/o' means this.
What is fungus?
The prefix "oligo" means this
What is few?
The 'penult' is defined as this syllable.
What is the almost-last syllable?
Pericarditis means inflammation around this organ.
Pericarditis means inflammation around this organ.
This disease is named after a baseball player and is an example of an eponym.
What is Lou Gehrig’s disease?
What is the nourishment or development?
"-ous" is what category of suffixes?
What is a "pertaining to" suffix?
Words ending in 'ma' are made plural by adding these letters.
What are "ta"?
This medical term combines a prefix meaning “under,” a root meaning “stomach,” and a suffix meaning “pertaining to.” Build the term
What is hypogastric?