Chapter 1

Question 1

What is a prefix?

Answer 1

Attached at the beginning of a word root.

Question 2

What is a combining vowel?

Answer 2

Usually a “o” at the beginning of a suffix.

Question 3

What is a suffix?

Answer 3

Attached at the end of a word root.

Question 4

What is a root word?

Answer 4

The core of the medical term.

Question 5

What is a combining form?

Answer 5

Word root with combining vowel attached.

Question 6

In the medical term oste/o/pathy, oste/o is a?

Answer 6

Prefix.

Question 7

In the medical term oste/o/pathy, o is a?

Answer 7

Combining vowel

Question 8

In the medical term arthr/itis, itis is a?

Answer 8

Suffix

Question 9

In the medical term arthr/itis, arthr is a?

Answer 9

Word root

Question 10

In the medical term intra/ven/ous, intra is a?

Answer 10

Prefix

Question 11

Cyt/o- means?

Answer 11

Cell

Question 12

-logy means?

Answer 12

Study of

Question 13

Cytology means?

Answer 13

Study of cells

Question 14

Dermat/o- means?

Answer 14

Skin

Question 15

-itis means?

Answer 15

Inflammation

Question 16

Dermatitis means?

Answer 16

Inflammation of the skin

Question 17

Dermatology means?

Answer 17

Study of the skin

Question 18

-oid means?

Answer 18

Resembling

Question 19

Cystoid means?

Answer 19

Resembling a cell

Question 20

-pathy means?

Answer 20

Disease

Question 21

My/o- means?

Answer 21

Muscle

Question 22

Myopathy means?

Answer 22

Muscle disease

Question 23

Leuke/o means?

Answer 23

White

Question 24

Leukocyte means?

Answer 24

White blood cell