Chapter 1 Combining Forms

Front 1

Root

Back 1

Foundation of the term

Front 2

Suffix

Back 2

Word ending

Front 3

Prefix

Back 3

Word beginning

Front 4

Combining vowel

Back 4

Usually “O” that links the root to the suffix or the root to another root and aids in pronunciation but has no meaning

Front 5

Combining form

Back 5

Combination of the root and the combining of the vowel

Front 6

When a term contains two or more roots related to parts of the body what often determines which root is listed first?

Back 6

Anatomical position

Front 7

Electr

Back 7

Electricity

root word

Front 8

Cardi

Back 8

Menas heart

Root word

Front 9

Gram

Back 9

Means record

Is the suffix

Front 10

Sub

Back 10

Under

Prefix

Front 11

gastr

Back 11

Stomach

Root

Front 12

All medical terms have ?

Back 12

A suffix

Front 13

Which element appears at the beginning of a medial term

Back 13

Prefix

Front 14

Hemat

Back 14

Blood

Root

Front 15

Ology

Back 15

Study of

Suffix

Front 16

Itis

Back 16

Means inflammation

Suffix

Front 17

Drop combining vowel when suffix starts with a vowel as in ?

Back 17

“Itis”

Front 18

Enter

Back 18

Means intestine

Root

Front 19

Logy

Back 19

Mean a process of study

Suffix

Front 20

Epi

Back 20

Above

Prefix

Front 21

Ic

Back 21

Means pertaining to

Suffix

Front 22

Adeno-o

Back 22

Gland

Front 23

Arthr-o

Back 23

Joint

Front 24

Bi-o

Back 24

Life

Front 25

Carcin-o

Back 25

Cancerous, cancer

Front 26

cephal/o

Back 26

head

Front 27

cerebr/o

Back 27

cerebrum

Front 28

cis/o

Back 28

to cut

Front 29

crin/o

Back 29

to secrete

Front 30

cyst/o

Back 30

urinary bladder

Front 31

cyto/o

Back 31

cell

Front 32

derm/o

or dermat/o

Back 32

skin

Front 33

encephal/o

Back 33

brain

Front 34

enter/o

Back 34

intestines

Front 35

erythr/o

Back 35

red

Front 36

gn/o

Back 36

knowledge

Front 37

gynec/o

Back 37

woman knowledge

Front 38

hemat/o

or hem/o

Back 38

blood

Front 39

hept/o

Back 39

liver

Front 40

leuk/o

Back 40

white

Front 41

nephr/o

Back 41

kidney

Front 42

neur/o

Back 42

nerve

Front 43

onc/o

Back 43

tumor

Front 44

opthalm/o

Back 44

eye

Front 45

oste/o

Back 45

bone

Front 46

path/o

Back 46

disease

Front 47

ped/o

Back 47

child

Front 48

psych/o

Back 48

mind

Front 49

radi/o

Back 49

xrays

Front 50

rhin/o

Back 50

nose

Front 51

sarc/o

Back 51

flesh

Front 52

thromb/o

Back 52

clot, clotting

Front 53

ur/o

Back 53

urine

Front 54

-algia

Back 54

pain

Front 55

-cyte

Back 55

cell

Front 56

-ectomy

Back 56

excision, removal

Front 57

which suffix means to cut out or to remove?

Back 57

-ectomy

Front 58

-emia

Back 58

blood condition

Front 59

-genic

Back 59

produced by or in

Front 60

-globin

Back 60

protein

Front 61

-gram

Back 61

record

Front 62

when -- is above a vowel, the sound is

Back 62

long

ex. ape, open