Medical Terminology basics 2

Most medical terminology words have a , and . (In the correct order)

• suffix, root, prefix

• prefix, root, suffix

• root, suffix, prefix

• root, prefix, suffix

To figure out a medical terminology word, you start with which part of the word?

• Prefix

• Root

• Suffix

Carditis means

• Inflammation of the heart

• Disease of the heart

• Study of the heart

• Heart tumor

A hematologist does what?

• Studies arteries

• Studies the stomach

• Studies the heart

• Studies blood

A rhinoscope would do what?

• Allow for the doctor to look at a rhinoceros

• Allow for the doctor to look in the stomach

• Allow for the doctor to look in the nose

• Allow for the doctor to look at blood

Leukaemia is what?

• Cancer of the nose

• Cancer of the throat

• Removal of the throat

• Cancer of blood cells

A myogram would look at what?

• Muscles

• Heart

• Blood

• Lungs

Neropathy is what?

• A disease of the nervous system

• Study of the nervous system

• Inflammation of the nervous system

• Nerve tumor

The following word has a prefix, root and suffix. Osteoarthritis

• True

• False

In the word melanoma the -oma means what?

• Disease

• Tumor

• Eyes

• Removal of