Com_220_Appendix_I

Axia College Material | Appendix I | | | | | | Building a Medical Vocabulary | | | | | A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in questions 1-15. Provide the whole word for example heredit/o + -ary = hereditary | | epi- | ab- | thalam/o- | -or | sacr/o- | -cyte | | oste/o- | gustat/o- | -al | hypo- | pronat/o- | -ic | | -delt/o- | oste/o | perone/o- | -itis | myel/o | -oid | | appendicul/o- | compress/o | -ion | -ory | por/o | duct/o- | | cost/o- | xiph/o- | -ar | -cervic/o | recept/o- | dur/o- | | | | | | | | 1. | Pertaining to the neck |  Cervic/o- + -al = cervical | 2. | Action of moving (a body part) away (from body) |  Ab- + duct/o- + -ion = abduction | 3. | Pertaining to a limb |  Appendicul/o- + -ar = appendicular | 4. | Resembling a triangle |  Delt/o- + -oid + deltoid | 5. | Action of lying face-down |  Pronat/o- + -ion = pronation | 6. | Having a sense of taste |  Gustat/o- + -ory = gustatory | 7. | Pertaining to below the thalamus |  Hypo- + thalam/o- + -ic = hypothalamic | 8. | Cartilage resembling a sword |  Xiph/o- + -oid = xiphoid | 9. | Type of fracture where the vertebra collapses in on itself |  Compress/o- + -ion = compression | 10. | A thing (person) that receives |  Recept/o- + -or = receptor | 11. | Pertaining to the sacrum |  Sacr/o- + -al = sacral | 12. | Pertaining to a rib |  Cost/o- + -al = costal | 13. | Pertaining to above the dura mater |  Epi- + dur/o- + -al = epidural | 14. | Pertaining to the fibula |  Fibul/o- + -ar = fibular | 15. | Infection in the bone and marrow |  Oste/o- + myel/o- + -itis = osteomyelitis | | | | | | | | B. Define the following word parts. | | | | | | | | | | | | | hemi- | One half. | -clast | A cell that breaks down substances. | sen/o | Old age. | | -eal | Pertaining to. | -ent | Pertaining to. | chondr/o | Cartilage. | | -aris | Pertaining to. | convuls/o | Seizure. | -ite | Thing that pertains to. | | -ature | System composed of. | comat/o | Deep unconsciousness. | -logy | The study of. | | -ure | System, result of. | pleg/o | Paralysis. | -ory | Having the function of. | | | | | | | | C. In the following activity, break the medical word into its word parts. Using the word parts, create a definition of the word. Write a sentence using the word in a medical context. | | Medical Word | Prefix | Combining form | Suffix | Definition | 1. |  Periosteal |  Peri- | Oste/o- | -al | Pertaining to around the bone. | | Sentence: The bones of the body are covered with a periosteal sheet. | 2. |  Intervertebral |  Inter- | Vertebr/o- | -al | Pertaining to between the vertebra. | | Sentence: The intervertebral disks were damaged when the man was in an accident. | 3. |  Ossification |   | Ossificat/o-  |  -ion | Action of changing into bone. | | Sentence: Due to severe malnutrition, the ossification process in the child was abnormal. | 4. |  Subarachnoid |  Sub- | Arachn/o- | -oid  | Below the membrane layer that resembles a spider web. | | Sentence: The man thought he was suffering from a migraine, when in fact he was having a subarachnoid hemorrage | 5. |  Sarcoma |   |  Sarc/o- |  -oma |  Tumor or mass of the connective tissue. | | Sentence:The removal of the soft tissue sarcoma was a success | 6. |  Avascular |  a- | Vascul/o- | -ar | Pertaining to without blood vessels. | | Sentence: The bone collapsed because of avascular necrosis which was over looked at the examination. | 7. |  Abduction | Ab-  | Duct/o | -ion | Action of bringing or moving away. | | Sentence: Raising the arms is a process known as abduction. | 8. |  Hyperflexion |  Hyper- | Flex/o- | -ion | Condition of more than normal bending. | | Sentence: The girl was doing a back bend and caused a hyperflexion injury. | 9. |  Avulsion |  a- | Vuls/o- | -ion | Action of tearing away from. | | Sentence: The car accident caused an avulsion, the muscles tore away from the tendons. | 10. |  Hyperkinesis |  Hyper- | -kinesis |   |  More than normal condition of movement. | | Sentence: It was clear the boy had some form of hyperkinesis, he could not sit still. |