BRCC Medical Terminology Exam 1 Questions and Answers

BRCC Medical Terminology Exam 1
Word Root - answer The word part that is the core of the word
Example: play in play/er; arthr in rather/itis

Prefix - answer The word part attached to the beginning of a word root to modify its
meaning
Example: re in re/play; sub in sub/hepat/ic

Suffix - answer The word part attached to the end of the word root to modify its meaning
Example: er in play/er; ic in heptic

Combining vowel - answerThe word part, usually an o, used to ease pronunciation. It
connects two word roots, connects a word root and suffix, and is NOT placed to connect
a prefix and word root
Example: o is oste/o/arthr/itis; hept in sub/hept/ic

anter/o - answerCombining form meaning front

caud/o - answerCombining form meaning tail (downward)

cephalic/o - answerCombining form meaning head (upward)

dist/o - answerCombining form meaning away (from the point of attachment of a body
part)

dors/o - answerCombining form meaning back

infer/o - answerCombining form meaning below

later/o - answerCombining form meaning side

medi/o - answerCombining form meaning middle

poster/o - answerCombining form meaning back, behind

proxim/o - answerCombining form meaning near (the point of attachment of a body part)

super/o - answerCombining form meaning above

ventr/o - answerCombining form meaning belly (front)

cutane/o, demro/o, dermat/o - answerCombining form meaning skin

, hidr/o - answerCombining form meaning sweat

kerat/o - answerCombining form meaning horny tissue (keratin), hard; can also refer to
the cornea of the eye

onych/o, ungu/o - answerCombining form meaning nail

seb/o - answerCombining form meaning sebum (oil)

aut/o - answerCombining form meaning self

bi/o - answerCombining form meaning life

coni/o - answerCombining form meaning dust

crypt/o - answerCombining form meaning hidden

heter/o - answerCombining form meaning other

myc/o - answerCombining form meaning fungus

necr/o - answerCombining form meaning death (cell, body)

pachy/o - answerCombining form meaning thick

rhytid/o - answerCombining form meaning wrinkles

staphyl/o - answerCombining form meaning grape like clusters

strept/o - answerCombining form meaning twisted chains

xer/o - answerCombining form meaning dry, dryness

adenoid/o - answerCombining form meaning adenoids

alveol/o - answerCombining form meaning alveolus

bronch/o, bronchi/o - answerCombining form meaning bronchus

diaphragm/o, phren/o - answerCombining form meaning diaphragm

epiglott/o - answerCombining form meaning epiglottis

laryng/o - answerCombining form meaning larynx

lob/o - answerCombining form meaning lobe