COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
⩥ AIDET. Answer: Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation,
Thank you
⩥ Hippocrates. Answer: the father of modern medicine and medical
ethics
⩥ Medical terminology. Answer: serves as an aid in communication;
consistent and uniform throughout the world; is efficient because it
reduces entire phases to a single word
⩥ word parts. Answer: word root, prefix, suffix, and combining form
⩥ word root. Answer: the stem or main part of a word; usually in the
middle of the word and central to its meaning
⩥ prefix. Answer: comes at the beginning to the word; usually identifies
some subdivision or part of the central meaning or changes the meaning
,⩥ suffix. Answer: comes at the end of the word; modifies the central
meaning as to what or who is interacting with it or what is happening to
it; usually indicates procedure, condition, disorder, disease or pertaining
to
⩥ pericardial. Answer: pertaining to the area surrounding the heart
⩥ epigastric. Answer: pertaining to the area above the stomach
⩥ rules for combining. Answer: the combining vowel is not used when
the suffix begins with a vowel; the combining vowel is used when the
suffix begins with a consonant
⩥ myocarditis. Answer: muscle heart inflammation
⩥ carcin. Answer: cancer
⩥ cyt. Answer: cell
⩥ epitheli. Answer: epithelium
⩥ hist. Answer: tissue
, ⩥ lip. Answer: fat
⩥ my. Answer: muscle
⩥ neur. Answer: nerve
⩥ onc. Answer: tumor
⩥ path. Answer: disease
⩥ plasm. Answer: growth
⩥ sarc. Answer: flesh, connective tissue
⩥ stasis. Answer: control, stop
⩥ viscer. Answer: internal organ
⩥ symptoms. Answer: what the patient feels
⩥ signs. Answer: what you actually see