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AAPC - Medical Terminology QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)|A+ GRADE 2025/2026
AAPC - Medical Terminology QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)|A+ GRADE 2025/2026
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AAPC - Medical TerminologyBlephar/o - ANS-EYELID
Bucc/o - ANS-CHEEK
Cholecyst/o - ANS-GALLBLADDER
Colp/o - ANS-VAGINA
Cyst/o - ANS-FLUID SAC OR POUCH, URINARY BLADDER
Derm/o - ANS-SKIN
Encephal/o - ANS-BRAIN
Enter/o - ANS-INTESTINE
Example: CARDIOMYOPATHY - ANS-Cardi/o = Heart
My/o = Muscle
Pathy = Disease
Meaning: a Diseased Heart Muscle
hem/o, Hemat/o - ANS-BLOOD
My/o - ANS-MUSCLE
Myel/o - ANS-SPINAL CORD, BONE MARROW
Onych/o - ANS-NAIL
Oste/o - ANS-BONE
Phleb/o - ANS-VEIN
PREFIX: AB - ANS-far from
PREFIX: AD - ANS-toward, near
PREFIX: Ante - ANS-earlier than
PREFIX: EC, ECTO - ANS-out, out of doors
PREFIX: END/O - ANS-in, within
PREFIX: MON/O - ANS-one
PREFIX: POLY - ANS-many, tons
PREFIX: POST - ANS-after, at the back of
Pulm/o, Pulmon/o - ANS-LUNGS
SUFFIX: CENTESIS - ANS-puncture, tap
SUFFIX: DESIS - ANS-binding, fusion
SUFFIX: ECTOMY - ANS-excision, surgical elimination
SUFFIX: GRAPHY - ANS-act of recording facts
SUFFIX: PEXY - ANS-surgical fixation
SUFFIX: PLASTY - ANS-plastic restore or surgical procedure, reconstruction
SUFFIX: TRIPSY - ANS-crushing
Synov/i - ANS-SYNOVIAL FLUID, JOINT, MEMBRANE
What changes in a clinical term whilst phrase goes from singular to plural? - ANS-The Ending of
the Word
What is a prefix? - ANS-It's connected to beginning of word to alter or adjust that means -
indicate vicinity, time or range
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