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Roots, Prefixes & Suffixes
Anatomic Terms
Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes II
100

How many continuing education hours does an EMT need to recertify ever 4 years?

What is 80 hours?

100

Consent given by adults who ae of legal age and are mentally competent to make a rational decision with regard to their medical well-being?

What is expressed consent?

100

A word added to the end of a root or word to complete its meaning.

What is a suffix?

100

What is the study of the body function?

What is physiology?

100

A word added to the beginning of a root or word to modify or qualify it s meaning?

What is a prefix?

200

A physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the patient-care aspects of the EMS system? 

What is the medical director?

200

Can a person with Power of Attorney make a medical decision for a conscious patient? 

What is false?
200

What is the meaning of the prefix HYPO?

What is below normal, low?

200

Toward the midline of the body

What is medial?

200

What is the meaning of the suffix ology?

What is "the study of" ?

300

What are the 4 levels of EMS training and certification in NC?

What is EMR, EMT, AEMT, and Paramedic?

300

Name the consent that presumes patients or their parents would give if they could?

What is implied consent?

300

What is the meaning of the root Hepat?

What is the liver?

300

Term used for farther away from the torso.

What is distal?

300

What is the meaning of the prefix inter?

What is between?

400

How many continuing education hours must a Paramedic have to recertify?  

What is 120 hours?

400

Name 1 circumstance that a minor in NC may consent to treatment without the knowledge of a parent? 

What is pregnancy, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol/drug abuse or emotional disturbances? 

400

What is the meaning of the root Nas?

What is nose/nasal?

400
Name the 4 divisions of the abdomen used to pinpoint the location of pain or injury. 
What is the Right and Left Upper Quadrant and the Right and Left Lower Quadrant?
400

What is the meaning of the suffix plegia?

What is paralysis?

500

A federal act that mandates a procedure by which emergency response personnel can seek to find our if they have been exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases while providing patient care?

What is the Ryan White CARE Act?

500

What is the term used "In place of a parent" indicating a person who may give consent for fare of a child when a parent is not present or able to give consent?

What is in loco parentis?

500

What is the meaning of the suffix rrhea?

What is discharge?

500

What is the term used for referring to the sole of the foot?

What is plantar?

500

What is the meaning of the suffix algia?

What is pain?