WGU C804 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
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diacritical mark that indicates the long vowel sound - Answer macron the foundation of a medical term - Answer root a word element that indicates procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech - Answer suffix type of marks that aid in the pronunciation of a word - Answer diacritical a combining vowel allows two or more of these to be connected as one word - Answer elements the second step in defining a medical term considers this part of the word - Answer first added to some word root combinations to help with pronunciation - Answer vowel a combining form links a suffix that begins with this - Answer consonant word created by combining root words together - Answer compound without, not - Answer a-, an-, non-, un- slow - Answer brady around - Answer peri, circum through, across - Answer dia, trans double - Answer dip, diplo bad, painful, difficult - Answer dys in, within - Answer endo, intra, en one half - Answer hemi different - Answer hetero same - Answer homo-, homeo- excessive, above normal - Answer hyper under, below, deficient - Answer hypo 1 / 3
WGU C804 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
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large - Answer macro small - Answer micro one - Answer mono, uni many, much - Answer multi, poly after, behind - Answer post before, in front of - Answer pre, pro first - Answer primi four - Answer quadri backward, behind - Answer retro upper, above - Answer super fast - Answer tachy three - Answer tri pertaining to - Answer ac, -al, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ior, -ous, -tic pain - Answer algia, dynia hernia, swelling - Answer cele surgical puncture - Answer centesis cell - Answer cyte binding, fixation (of a bone or joint) - Answer desis dilation, expansion - Answer ectasis excision, removal - Answer ectomy swelling - Answer edema bladder - Answer cysto/vesico 2 / 3
WGU C804 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
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glomerulus - Answer glomeru/o blood - Answer hemat/o, hem/o water - Answer hydr/o stone - Answer lith/o opening - Answer meat/o kidney - Answer nephr/o, ren/o night - Answer noct/o scanty - Answer olig/o disease - Answer path/o, pathy pus - Answer py/p renal pelvis - Answer pyel/o sound - Answer son/o urine or urinary tract - Answer ur/o, urin/o ureter - Answer ureter/o urethra - Answer urethr/o hernia - Answer cele blood condition - Answer emia condition - Answer esis, ia, ism process of recording - Answer graphy abnormal condition produced by something specific - Answer iasis specialist - Answer ist specialist in the study of - Answer logist
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