Medical Vocabulary

Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 1

Complete activities A, B, & C.

A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in problems 1-8. Click the grey box to begin typing.

-ic

-pathy

hepat/o-

an-

-megaly

sub-

gastr/o-

ven/o-

esthes/o-

cutane/o-

-ectomy

poly-

hemat/o-

-ous

-ia

-oma

-ous

neur/o-

appendic/o-

intra-

1. Pertaining to the liver

2. Pertaining to underneath the skin

3. Surgical removal of the appendix

4. Pertaining to within the vein

5. Disease of many nerves

6. Enlargement of the liver

7. Swelling of the blood

8. Condition of not feeling

B. Define the following word parts.

-ac

Pertaining to cardiac -ar Pertaining to nasal

-ary

Pertaining to muscular -ion Action; condition

-osis Condition; abnormal

Condition; process Peri-

around

Hyper-

Above; more than normal Brady-

slow

Post-

After, behind Anti-

against

Dys- Painful, difficult, abnormal Laryng/o-

Larynx (voice box)

C. In the following activity, break the medical word into its