Axia College Material

Appendix B

Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 1

Complete activities A, B, & C, and post to the Individual forum.

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

-ar

Pertaining to

-ary

Pertaining to

-ion

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