Axia College Material

Appendix G

Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 6, 7, & 14

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 1-17. Word parts may be used more than once. Click the grey box to begin typing.

-um

-ic

-blast

kerat/o-

home/o-

-poiesis

sebace/o-

adip/o-

calc/i

theli/o-

coll/a-

leuk/o-

-ose

norm/o-

hemat/o-

melan/o-

epi-

ton/o-

-osis

-ous

system/o-

phag/o-

-stasis

-poetin

-gen

hem/o-

glyc/o-

erythr/o-

myel/o-

-in

lip/o-

• cyte

insul/o-

cty/o-

1.Normal immature cell

2.Process of forming blood

3.A substance that forms red blood cells

4.White blood cells

5.Immature cell in the bone marrow

6.Process of cells eating microorganisms

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