How Medical Terms are Formed 1
To understand _____________, also called the language of medicine, you have to know how the terms that make up this language are put together.
What is Medical Terminology
This part of a medical term can be found at the end of the term
What is Suffix
A __________ tells the illness or other condition that is affecting the body based on the signs and symptoms.
What is a diagnosis
_____________ are ones that progress over time and gradually get worse. Some other examples of these illnesses include Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and Parkinson's disease.
What are Chronic illnesses?
'Micro-' is a prefix that means ____________.
Terms that may include this prefix are 'microscope,' 'microorganism,' 'microcyte,' 'microcardia,' and 'microcephalus.'
What is 'tiny' or 'small.'
There is an enormous amount of these. This is because there is one for every single part of the body, everything that enters the body, and everything that exits the body. It's the part of the medical term that gives the term its most basic or central meaning.
What is the Woed Root
The ________ is found at the beginning of the term and gives a location, number, or time, or narrows the meaning of the word root down to a certain part.
What is a prefix
Diagnoses can only be obtained after you tell the doctor the __________, which are the sensations that you feel, and the doctor examines for them.
These are things that can't be seen like itching, feeling nauseous, and body aches.
What are symptoms
A diagnosis is based on the _______ which is the set of signs and symptoms.
What is a Syndrome
'mega-.' is a prefix that means something is ________
Medical terms that may include the prefix 'mega-' are 'megacolon,' 'megahysterosis,' and 'megastomia.
Megacolon' is a term used to describe an abnormally large colon.
What is 'abnormally large.'
If you want to form a term based on the heart, then you would use the word root
What is 'card-' or 'cardi-.
The _______ for a medical term can be found at the end of the term. It serves the purpose of further telling what is happening with the word root. This can tell what the word root is doing, what is being done to it, or identify who is doing something with it.
What is a suffix
A ________________ is when the doctor has to determine the diagnosis based on the signs and symptoms and evaluate the likelihood of it being one disease versus another disease that causes the same set of signs and symptoms
What is a differential diagnosis
When a disease gradually gets worse over time, it is a _______ disease.
What is Chronic
'Macro' means __________ Terms that may include this prefix are 'macromolecules,' 'macroscopic,' 'macrophage,' and 'macromyocardia.'
What is 'large.'
To make a term about the stomach or intestines, then you would use
What is 'gastr-' or 'enter-'
Gastr- is stomach
enter- is intestines
The term 'gastroenterologist.' This term was formed to define a person who specializes in or studies the stomach and intestines. What is the suffix of this term
-logist
____________ are the changes in the body that can be detected or measured.
These are things like blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, and oxygen saturation.
What are signs of disease
There are three basic word parts to a medical term. They are the;
What are the prefix, word root, and suffix?
The term 'megahysterosis' has the word root 'hyster-,' meaning 'uterus,' and the suffix '-osis,' meaning 'condition of.' The term means _________________
a condition of having an abnormally large uterus.'
In order to make medical terms easier to pronounce when the word parts are put together, the word roots may need to be changed into a different form, This usually involves adding the letter 'o,' 'i,' or 'a' to the end of the word root.
This is known as the.
What is a combining form?
Different word parts are put together in order to achieve the goal of forming a.
What is a medical term
An _____________ is one that has a sudden onset and is short-lived.
What is an acute illness
The prefix (when used) is the word part that is found in which part of a medical term and it gives more information to make the term more specific. They may give information such as time, location, color, amount, and size.
What is the beginning of a
Macromyocardia has the prefix, 'macro-;' the combining form, 'myo-,' meaning 'muscle;' the word root, 'card-,' meaning 'heart;' and the suffix '-ia,' meaning 'pertaining to.'
Putting it all together, you should get that 'macromyocardia' means ______________
What is 'pertaining to a large muscle of the heart.'