Basic Word Structure
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Aden/o means????
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Brain
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Life
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Gland
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Joint
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Cancer
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About This Quiz
Divide medical words into their components. . Learn suffixes, prefixes of the medical language. Use these combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes to build medical words. . .
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Arthr/o means?
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Cancer
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Bladder
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Joint
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Skin
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Brain
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What does cyt/o mean???
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cell - 4.
Word endings are called???
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suffixes - 5.
Study of the heart???
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cardiology - 6.
Process of visual examination of a joint???
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arthroscopy - 7.
Gastr/o means???
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stomach - 8.
Hemat/o means???
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blood - 9.
Leuk/o means???
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white - 10.
Inflammation of the stomach????
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gastritis - 11.
Inflammation of the small intestine???
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enteritis - 12.
Study of the kidneys????
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nephrology - 13.
What is a leukocyte???
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white blood cell - 14.
What is an erythrocyte???
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red blood cell - 15.
What does ren/o mean???
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kidney - 16.
What does rhin/o mean????
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nose - 17.
What does ophthalm/o mean???
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eye - 18.
Renal means kidney.. Is this a true or false statement????
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True - 19.
Science of tumors???
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oncology - 20.
What does renal mean???
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kidney - 21.
The suffix that means pain???
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algia - 22.
The suffix for blood condition????
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emia - 23.
The suffix for record???
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gram - 24.
The suffix that means cell???
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cyte - 25.
The suffix that means inflammation???
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itis - 26.
The suffix that means incision???
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tomy - 27.
The suffix that means produced by???
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genic - 28.
The suffix that means removal, excision, resection???
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ectomy - 29.
The suffix that means abnormal condition???
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osis - 30.
Instrument to visually examine???
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scope - 31.
The suffix that means process???
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ion - 32.
What does the suffix algia mean???
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pain - 33.
What does the suffix cyte mean???
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cell - 34.
What does the suffix itis mean???
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inflammation - 35.
What does the suffix -pathy mean???
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disease condition - 36.
What does the suffix ectomy mean???
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surgical removal - 37.
What does the suffix -scope mean???
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instrument to visually examine - 38.
What does the suffix gram mean???
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record - 39.
What does the suffix -emia mean???
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blood condition - 40.
What does the suffix -ion mean???
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process - 41.
Tumor in the liver???
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hepatoma - 42.
The medical term for bladder infection???
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cystitis - 43.
The medical term for cancer of the white blood cells????
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leukemia - 44.
What does the suffix epi mean???
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above - 45.
The suffix endo means???
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within - 46.
The suffix re- means???
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back - 47.
The suffix retro- means??
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behind - 48.
The suffix pro means???
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before - 49.
Epi means???
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above
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