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Week 4 Med Term List

This document provides a list of medical terminology prefixes, roots, and suffixes for students to study and make flashcards from for an upcoming quiz. It includes 15 new prefix terms, 3 root terms related to organs and body parts, and 5 new suffix terms related to symptoms, treatments, and surgery. Students are instructed to make flashcards, study the terms, turn the flashcards in before the quiz, and they can earn extra credit points for completing the process and scoring well on the quiz.

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Week 4 Med Term List

This document provides a list of medical terminology prefixes, roots, and suffixes for students to study and make flashcards from for an upcoming quiz. It includes 15 new prefix terms, 3 root terms related to organs and body parts, and 5 new suffix terms related to symptoms, treatments, and surgery. Students are instructed to make flashcards, study the terms, turn the flashcards in before the quiz, and they can earn extra credit points for completing the process and scoring well on the quiz.

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Week 4 Med Term List

PREFIXES
TERM

(location

15 new terms

position

time

number

(1 side of card) ENGLISH (other side of card)

color

size)

Examples using this term

auto

self, own

automatic, autonomic, autoimmune

leuko

white

leukemia, leukoplakia

erythro

red

erythrocyte, erythema

hetero

different

heterosexual, heterogenous

inter

between

intercellular, interstate

poly

many

polygon, polynephrosis

ROOTS (organs
TERM

structures

parts)

(1 side of card) ENGLISH (other side of card)

Examples using this term

hemo / hemato

blood

hemoglobin, hematocrit, hemorrhoid

bio

life

biology, biography

lipo

fat

lipoma, liposuction

dent/dont

tooth, teeth

dentist, orthodontist, dentures

SUFFIXES
TERM

(symptoms

treatment

surgery)

(1 side of card) ENGLISH (other side of card)

Examples using this term

-esthesia

sensation

anesthesia, hyperesthesia

-megaly

enlarged

cardiomegaly, hepatomegaly

-meter, metry

to measure, measurement

perimeter, telemetry, spirometer

-rrhage / -rrhagia

gushing, bursting

hemorrhage, pyorrhagia

-otomy ***

to cut into

laparotomy, tracheotomy

*** a TOME is a sharp cutting instrument, like a scalpel. Therefore, an otomy is the use of such an
instrument. USE CAUTION WITH otomy & -ostomy! Does this make sense to you: An otomy is used in
creating an -ostomy.

PROCEDURE
1. Make flashcards (in class or at home)
2. Study flashcards (at home)
3. Turn in flashcards just prior to taking the quiz (Thursday, 9/18)
4. Take quiz (Thurday, 9/18). 75% will be from these terms; the other 25% will come from the previous
weeks terms.
5. Flashcards to be returned to students the next day.

6. Earn 5 WE points by (a) turning in the flashcards AND (b) earning an A on that Med Term Quiz!

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