Medical Terminology Worksheet – 1

Name: _______________________________________ Course:______________

Part I. What is Medical Terminology?

1. What two languages are the basis for current medical terminology?
a.
b.

2. What are the four possible parts that can make-up a medical term?
a.
b.
c.
d.

3. Which one of the above four parts must a medical term always contain?

4. What is the definition of BRADYCARDIA?

5. Identify the roots and connecting vowels in the term STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID muscle?

i. How many roots are there? What are they?

ii. How many connecting vowels are there? What are they?

6. What is the most common COMBINING VOWEL?

7. Between which two-word parts are COMBINING VOWELS never used?

Part 2: Prefixes

1. Answer the following four questions.

a. What does the prefix "HYPO" mean?

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b. What does the prefix "HYPER" mean?

c. What does the prefix "EPI" mean?

c. What does the prefix "ENDO" mean?

Part 3: Suffixes

1. Answer the following questions.

a. What does "TRIPSY" mean?

b. What does "PHYSIS" mean?

c. What does "ITIS" mean?

2. Why do you think that the end of a long bone is called the epiphysis?

Part 4: Word Roots

1) Answer the following four questions.

a. What does "CYST" mean?

b. What does "LITH" mean?

c. Given the above information, what would you say a "cystolith" is?

d. What does "CARD" mean?

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Part 5: Creating and Dissecting Word Parts

1. Below is a list of medical terms. Write the definition in the space provided. Start by dissecting
the words into their different parts. The first one is done for you to provide an example.

a. myocarditis: myo - card – itis, meaning inflammation of the heart muscle

b. intravenous:

c. cystolithotomy: (clue: root, root, suffix)

d. cholelithiasis: (clue: root, root, suffix)

e. hypertonic:

f. dermatitis:

g. lithotripsy: (clue: root, suffix)

h. endocarditis:

Part 6. True or False

_______ 1. Hyperglycemia means too much sugar in the urine.

_______ 2. Anemia is a decreased blood count.
_______ 3. Hematology is the study of the cells.
_______ 4. Uremia is too much blood in the urine.
_______ 5. Tracheostomy is cutting in the trachea.
_______ 6. Just because I have neuralgia in my arm, my arm should not hurt.
_______ 7. An erythrocyte is a red blood cell.
_______ 8. Pericarditis is inflammation around the heart.
_______ 9. People who fear Friday the 13th have triakaidekaphobia.
_______10. Biology is the study of life.

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