HPRS-1206 Essentials Medical Terminology || With C
HPRS-1206 Essentials Medical Terminology || with C
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Why is medical language necessary? correct answers 1. allows professionals to be clear
2. allows health care professionals to communicate quickly
3. allows professionals to comfort patients
Tachycardia correct answers fast heart rate/condition. Tachy (fast) + card (heart) + ia (condition)
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HPRS-1206 Essentials Medical Terminology || with Complete
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Why is medical language necessary? correct answers 1. allows professionals to be clear
2. allows health care professionals to communicate quickly
3. allows professionals to comfort patients
Tachycardia correct answers fast heart rate/condition. Tachy (fast) + card (heart) + ia (condition)
idiopathic correct answers pertaining to disease of unknown origin. Idio (private or alone) +
pathic (disease or suffering)
Where does medical language originate from? correct answers Greek and Latin
Eponyms are correct answers Scientific terms that are based on a person's name. Epi (upon) +
onyma (name).
Formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented whatever is being
described.
Acronyms correct answers abbreviations that stand in for common phrases. Acro (high, end) +
onyma (name)
What does MRI mean? correct answers magnetic resonance imaging
Why are Greek and Latin so prevalent? correct answers 1. foundations of western medicine were
in Ancient Greece and rome
2. latin was the global language of the scientific revolution
3. dead languages don't change.
What does ultima mean? correct answers last
What does penult mean? correct answers "Almost the last."
What does antepenult mean? correct answers "The one before the one that is almost last." Third
to last.
What does cardiac mean? correct answers relating to the heart
What is cardiology? correct answers The study of the heart and its action and diseases.
What is a colonoscopy? correct answers A visual exam of the lining of the entire large intestine
with a lighted, flexible fiber optic video endoscope.
, What is a colonoscope? correct answers A flexible, lighted instrument used to view the inside of
the colon.
What is a root? correct answers foundation or subject of the term
What is a suffix? correct answers word element placed at the end of a word that changes the
meaning of the word
What is a prefix? correct answers A syllable or group of syllables added to the beginning of the
word, root, or stem, to change its meaning or to form a new word
arthr/o correct answers joint, articulation
cardi/o correct answers heart
enter/o correct answers small intestine
gastr/o correct answers stomach
hepat/o correct answers liver
neur/o correct answers nerve
hem/o correct answers blood, relating to the blood
hemat/o correct answers blood, relating to the blood
my/o correct answers muscle
muscul/o, my/o correct answers muscle
angi/o correct answers vessel
vas/o, vascul/o correct answers vessel, duct
derm/o, dermat/o, cutane/o correct answers skin
pneum/o, pneumon/o, pulmon/o correct answers lung, air
gen/o correct answers creation, cause
hydr/o, hydra- correct answers water
morph/o correct answers change
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