Word Parts
Prefixes
Suffixes
Describe the Disease
Potpourri
100

This part of a medical term provides the core meaning of the word.

(What is the word root?)

100

This prefix means "against" and is used to describe a certain class of medicines.

(What is anti-?)

100

The suffix “-logy” means this.

(What is the study of?)

100

Gastritis is an inflammation of what?

(What is the stomach?)

100

This is the singular of bacteria.

(What is bacterium?)

200

The vowel, usually “o,” that links a root to a suffix or another root.

(What is a combining vowel?)

200

This prefix means "half" and is often used in terms related to paralysis.

(What is hemi-?)

200

The suffix “-pathy” is related to this medical concept.

(What is disease?)

200

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of what?

(What is heart muscle)

200

This is the name of the museum we will be visiting next Wednesday.

(What is the Russel Museum?)

300

The prefix “brady-” means this.

(What is slow?)

300

The prefix that means "within" or "inside."

(What is endo-?)

300

The suffix “-ectomy” refers to this type of procedure.

(What is surgical removal?)

300

This term describes a condition of having a low red blood cell count.

(What is anemia?)

300

This is often abbreviated as EKG, even though there is no "k" in this word.

(What is an electrocardiogram?)

400

The suffix “-itis” refers to

(What is a condition)

400

This prefix is used to show that there is a difficulty in something operating correctly

(what is dys-)

400

The suffix "-scope" refers to this.

(What is medically observing something inside of the body)

400

If someone has tachycardia, what is wrong with their heart?

Beating too quickly.

400

A glucagon-like peptide-1, usually found in weight-loss drugs, is often abbreviated like this.

(What is GLP-1)
500

The prefix “hyper-” means this.

(What is excessive or above normal?)

500

This Latin based prefix means "outside" or "beyond"

(What is extra)

500

The suffix “-megaly” means this.

(What is enlargement?)

500

This is what is removed during a cholecystectomy.

(What is the gallbladder?)

500

The plural of “thorax.”

(What is thoraces?)