Allied Healthcare Readiness Project

PRACTICE WORD ELEMENTS: ROOTS, PREFIXES, SUFFIXES D2

If you know the meanings of the common prefixes, suffixes and roots, you are better able to work out the meanings of words. One writer has estimated that knowledge of only 14 basic Latin and Greek roots can help us recognize more than 14,000 English words.

Exercise 2: A knowledge of word elements can enable you to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. In the first column is a list of words which may be unfamiliar to you. Using your knowledge of word elements, match the word with the proper definition without looking the words up in a dictionary.

Word choices / Meaning / Word defined
a. uteroscopy / 1. process of poisoning oneself / 1.
b. gynecological / 2. a record of the heart made by using returned
or reflective sounds / 2.
c. antidepressant / 3. study of diseases / 3.
d. brachycardia / 4. examination of the uterus / 4.
e. echocardiogram / 5. the development of life from preexisting life / 5.
f. hepatoma / 6. related to the female reproductive system / 6.
g. autointoxication / 7. working against depression / 7.
h. Biogenesis / 8. tumor of the liver / 8.
i. tracheostomy / 9. mass or tumor of clotted blood / 9.
j. tonsillectomy / 10. occurs after death / 10.
k. hematoma / 11. staying or remaining the same, unchanging / 11.
l. acrophobia / 12. removal or cutting out of the tonsils / 12.
m. Postmortem / 13. an incision or creating an opening in the trachea / 13.
n. tracheotomy / 14. abnormal fear of high places / 14.
o. pathology / 15. slow heartbeat / 15.

ALLIED HEALTHCARE READINESS PROGRAM:

VOCABULARY WARM-UP D1

Exercise 1: Separate the following words into their basic parts. Connect the meaning of each part of a word to help you discover a literal definition for the medical term.

WORDS / WORD ELEMENTS and THEIR MEANINGS / LITERAL MEANING
1.  biology / ROOT
bio = life / PREFIX AND/OR SUFFIX
ology = study of; practice of / The practice or study of life
2.  hypodermic
3.  tachycardia
4.  gastroenterology
5.  hydrocephalic
6.  appendectomy
7.  rhinoplasty
8.  nephritis
9.  psychogenesis
10.  oncologist
11. orthodontist