Axia College Material

Appendix E

Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 3, 4, & 5

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 1-16. Word parts may be used more than once. Click the grey box to begin typing.

gloss/o-

bil/i-

mastic/o-

axill/o-

-al

cardi/o-

epi-

apic/o-

tri-

glott/o-

-stals/o

fec/o-

diastol/o-

cusp/o-

rub/o-

sept/o-

-ary

peri-

-in

-ic

thorac/o-

-ous

-sis

-ation

saphen/o-

-id

eu-

mucos/o-

-pne/o-

-ac

1.Pertaining to the tongue

2.Pertaining to the mucous membrane

3.Process of chewing

4.Process of contracting around

5.Substance of red (red blood cell) bile

6.Pertaining to stool

7.Pertaining to the septum

8.Pertaining to...