LSUE NURS1000 Medical Terminology Exam 1.

LSUE NURS1000 Medical Terminology Exam 1.
(overview) eponym

a term derived from the name of a person

(overview) acronym

a term formed from the first letters of the words in a phrase

(overview) suffix

the end of a word

(overview) prefix

the beginning of a word

(overview) word root

the core of a word

(overview) combining forms

a word root with the combining vowel attached

(combining forms) aden/o

gland

(combining forms) anter/o

front

(combining forms) aut/o

self

(combining forms) bi/o

life

(combining forms) cancer/o

cancer

(combining forms) carcin/o

cancer

(combining forms) caud/o

tail (downward)

(combining forms) cephal/o

, head

(combining forms) chlor/o

green

(combining forms) cyan/o

blue

(combining forms) cyt/o

cell

(combining forms) dist/o

away (from the point of attachment)

(combining forms) dors/o

back

(combining forms) epitheli/o

epithelium

(combining forms) erythr/o

red

(combining forms) eti/o

cause (of disease)

(combining forms) fibr/o

fibrous, fibrous tissue

(combining forms) gno/o

knowledge

(combining forms) hemat/o

blood

(combining forms) hist/o

tissue

(combining forms) iatr/o

physician, medicine (also means treatment)

(combining forms) infer/o

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