Root Words: Medical Terminology 8th Grade

What is a Suffix?

• It is the ending part of a word that modifies the meaning of the word

• It is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning

• It expresses the basic meaning of the term

• All of the above

What is a Prefix?

• It is the ending part of a word that modifies the meaning of the word

• It is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning

• It expresses the basic meaning of the term

• All of the above

What is a Root word?

• It is the ending part of a word that modifies the meaning of the word

• It is placed at the beginning of a word to modify or change its meaning

• It expresses the basic meaning of the term

• All of the above

Audiologist- Diagnoses and treats _____ deficits or impairments

• head

• skull

• hearing

• double

Encephalitis- Inflammation of the _____

• nerve

• brain

• smell

• eye

Craniotomy- surgical removal of part of the _____ (to relieve pressure when the brain swells following a head injury)

• skull

• double

• brain

• eye

Psychologist- medical professional who diagnoses and treats conditions that effect the _____ and behaviors

• brain

• tongue

• spinal cord

• mind

Pathogen- _____ causing organism

• hearing

• disease

• brain

• brain

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Optic nerve- cranial nerve that controls _____

• hearing

• brain

• eye/vision

• nerve

Olfactory nerve- cranial nerve that controls your sense of _____

• skull

• brain

• nerve

• smell