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    This document provides medical vocabulary building activities that involve defining word parts, combining word parts to form medical terms, and using the newly learned terms in sentences. Students are given a word bank and asked to use the terms to define 13 terms related to anatomy. They then define additional word parts and medical suffixes. Finally, students break down medical words into their constituent parts, define the terms, and use them in example sentences. The goal is to build students' medical terminology vocabulary.

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    Medical Appendix I

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    Axia College Material

    Appendix I

    Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 8, 9, & 10

    Complete activities A, B, & C, and post to the Individual forum.

    A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in problems 1-
    13. Word parts may be used more than once. Click the grey box to begin typing.

    epi- ab- thalam/o- -oid sacr/o-


    oste/o- gustat/o- -al duct/o- pronat/o-
    -or -cyte perone/o- dur/o- -delt/o-
    hypo- -ic -ion -ory appendicul/o-
    cost/o- xiph/o- -ar -cervic/o recept/o-

    1. Pertaining to a limb Appendicular

    2. Cartilage resembling a sword xiphoid

    3. Pertaining to a rib Costal

    4. Pertaining to the neck Cervical

    5. Pertaining to the sacrum Sacral

    6. Action of moving (a body part) away (from body) abduction

    7. Resembling a triangle deltoid

    8. Action of lying face-down pronation

    9. Pertaining to the fibula fibular

    10. Having a sense of taste gustatory

    11. Pertaining to below the thalamus hypothalmic

    12. Pertaining to above the dura mater epidural

    13. A thing (person) that receives receptor


    B. Define the following words or word parts.

    -eal Pertaining to -clast Cell that breaks down


    substances

    -aris Pertaining to -ent Pertaining to

    -ature System composed of -ite Thing that pertains to

    -ure System result of -logy The study of

    hemi- One half -ory The function of

    C. In this 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. Use the table to record your answers.

    Additional
    Pref Combinin Combining Suffi
    Medical Word ix g form form or suffix x Definition
    Intervertebral
    Inter- Vertebr/o- -al Pertaing to between two vertebre
    Sentence: The doctor told the Patients sister there
    was a mass in-between intervertebral
    Periosteal Per- Oste/o- -al Pertains to around the bone
    Sentence: The patient is experiencing pain in on
    their patella due to inflammation
    periosteal
    Ossificat/o
    Ossification
      - -ion Action of changing into the bone
    Sentence: The young man’s hip was going through
    ossification when there should have been
    blood flow.
    Brachioradialis Brachio/o- Radi/o -alis Pertains to radiation of the arm
    Sentence: Radiologist USE BRACHIORADIALIS
    TO FIND OUT IF A PATIENT HAS A
    BROKEN BONE.
    Person or thing that produces a nerve cell
    Neuromuscular Neur/o Muscul/o- -ar to send across or through the nerve
    Sentence:

    Subarachnoid Sub- Arachn/o- -oid Resembling a spider below


    Sentence: The arachnoid, a thin membrane within
    the brain, is that of a subarachnoid

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