WGU C804 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED Diacritical mark that indicates the long vowel sound ✔✔macron the foundation of a medical term ✔✔root a word element that indicates procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech ✔✔suffix type of marks that aid in the pronunciation of a word ✔✔diacritical a combining vowel allows two or more of these to be connected as one word ✔✔elements the second s tep in defining a medical term considers this part of the word ✔✔first added to some word root combinations to help with pronunciation ✔✔vowel a combining form links a suffix that begins with this ✔✔consonant word created by combining root words togethe r ✔✔compound without, not ✔✔a-, an-, non -, un- slow ✔✔brady around ✔✔peri, circum through, across ✔✔dia, trans double ✔✔dip, diplo bad, painful, difficult ✔✔dys in, within ✔✔endo, intra, en one half ✔✔hemi different ✔✔hetero same ✔✔homo -, homeo - excessive, above normal ✔✔hyper under, below, deficient ✔✔hypo large ✔✔macro small ✔✔micro one ✔✔mono, uni many, much ✔✔multi, poly after, behind ✔✔post before, in front of ✔✔pre, pro first ✔✔primi four ✔✔quadri backward, behind ✔✔retro upper, above ✔✔super fast ✔✔tachy three ✔✔tri pertaining to ✔✔ac, -al, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ior, -ous, -tic pain ✔✔algia, dynia hernia, swelling ✔✔cele surgical puncture ✔✔centesis cell ✔✔cyte binding, fixation (of a bone or joint) ✔✔desis dilation, expansion ✔✔ectasis excision, removal ✔✔ectomy swelling ✔✔edema