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Medical Terminology Chapter 1 Review
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Medical terminology is based on what languages?
2. Suffix “Death of tissue”?
3. Surgical repair of the nose?
4. Abnormal softening of arteries?
5. What is an abbreviation?
6. abdominocentesis?
7. Gastroenterology?
8. Suffix “Abnormal hardening”?
9. Suffix “The study of”?
10. Root word for Stone?
11. hepatomegaly?
12. Poliomyelitis?
13. Colotomy?
14. arterionecrosis?
15. Surgically created opening?
16. Suffix “Pertaining to” (x2)?
17. illium?
18. Perinatal?
19. Root word for Throat?
20. Myorrhexis?
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21. Suffix for Pain (x2)?
22. Suffix for Narrowing?
23. Atherosclerosis?
24. Suffix for Surgical removal?
25. Myel/o (full definition)?
26. ab?
27. Surgically created opening in the colon?
28. When was Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary first published?
29. Hepatitis?
30. Where do you find the suffix on a medical term?
31. Cardi/o?
32. What is an eponym?
33. Rule of “O”?
34. Where is the Ileum?
35. Diarrhea?
36. acronym?
37. Surgical removal of a stone?
38. Who were the founders of modern medicine?
39. Endoscopy?
40. Where does the prefix go?
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