Medical Terminology

Question 1

How many origins of medical terms are there?

Answer 1

Three.

Question 2

What are the 3 origins of medical terms?

Answer 2

Word parts; eponyms; modern terms and acronyms

Question 3

What 2 languages are today’s medical terms derived from?

Answer 3

Green and Latin

Question 4

Name 2 historical figures that formed the basis of modern medical terminology.

Answer 4

Aristotle and Hippocrates

Question 5

What is an Eponym?

Answer 5

A term named after the person who invented the technique or disease.

Question 6

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s are examples of what?

Answer 6

Eponyms.

Question 7

What is an Acronym?

Answer 7

A new word formed by the first letter or first few letters of multiple words.

Question 8

Give an example of an acronym.

Answer 8

LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Question 9

T/F: Medical terminology is mainly about memorizing long and difficult medical terms.

Answer 9

False. The main portion of medical terminology is learning small word
parts and their definitions to put them together to form larger words.

Question 10

T/F: Once you know medical word parts, you can often figure out the meaning of the word even if you’ve never heard of it before.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

How many parts of medical terms?

Answer 11

4

Question 12

Name the 4 parts of medical terms.

Answer 12

1. Word Roots
2. Prefixes
3. Suffixes
4. Combining Vowels

Question 13

What are word roots?

Answer 13

The main part of medical terms.

Question 14

What comes at the beginning of a word and can modify the meaning?

Answer 14

Prefix

Question 15

What are suffixes?

Answer 15

They come at the end of a word and can modify the meaning.

Question 16

What is a combining vowel?

Answer 16

A, E, I, O, U

They are placed between two word roots OR a word root and a suffix to are the word easier to pronounce.

Question 17

What is a combining form?

Answer 17

When you have a word root with a combining vowel attached.

Question 18

T/F: Most medical terms have a suffix.

Answer 18

True.

Question 19

T/F: The parts “o/meter” represent a combining form.

Answer 19

False. Combining forms have the vowel second, not first.

Question 20

T/F: the main part of the medical term is the word rood.

Answer 20

True.

Question 21

Each medical term contains _____ word root(s).

Answer 21

One or more

Question 22

Many medical terms Do/Don’t have a prefix.

Answer 22

DON’T

Question 23

Most medical terms have a ____.

Answer 23

Suffix

Question 24

The _______ _______ is usually ____, and not all medical terms have one.

Answer 24

combining vowel; ‘o’

Question 25

Combining vowels are never used between _____ and ______.

Answer 25

Prefix and a word root.