Hca 220 Appendix I

Axia College Material

Appendix I

Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 8, 9, & 10

Complete activities A, B, & C.

A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in problems 1-13. Word parts may be used more than once. Click the grey box to begin typing.

|epi- |ab- |thalam/o- |-oid |sacr/o- |

|oste/o- |gustat/o- |-al |duct/o- |pronat/o- |

|-or |-cyte |perone/o- |dur/o- |-delt/o- |

|hypo- |-ic |-ion |-ory |appendicul/o- |

|cost/o- |xiph/o- |-ar |-cervic/o |recept/o- |

1. Pertaining to a limb

2. Cartilage resembling a sword

3. Pertaining to a rib

4. Pertaining to the neck

5. Pertaining to the sacrum

6. Action of moving (a body part) away (from body)

7. Resembling a triangle

8. Action of lying face-down

9. Pertaining to the fibula

10. Having a sense of taste

11. Pertaining to below the thalamus

12. Pertaining to above the dura mater

13. A thing (person) that receives

B. Define the following words or word parts.

|-eal |Pertaining to |-clast |Cell that breaks down substances |

|-aris |Pertaining to |-ent |Pertaining to |

|-ature |System composed of |-ite |Thing that pertains to |

|-ure |System; result of |-logy |The study of...