Axia College Material
Appendix I

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

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 1-13. Word parts may be used more than once. Click the grey box to begin typing.

epi-
oste/o-
-or
hypo-
cost/o-
ab-
gustat/o-
-cyte
-ic
xiph/o- thalam/o-
-al
perone/o-
-ion
-ar
-oid
duct/o-
dur/o-
-ory
-cervic/o sacr/o-
pronat/o-
-delt/o-
appendicul/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
-clast
-aris -ent
-ature
-ite
-ure
-logy
hemi-
-ory
C. In this activity, break the medical word into its word parts. Using the word parts, create a definition of the word. Write a sentence using the word in a medical context. Use the table to record your answers.

Medical Word Prefix Combining form Additional Combining form or suffix Suffix Definition Intervertebral Sentence:
Periosteal Sentence: Ossification   Sentence: Brachioradialis Sentence:
Neuromuscular Sentence: Subarachnoid Sentence:

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C. In this activity, break the medical word into its word parts. Using the word parts, create a definition of the word. Write a sentence using the word in a medical context. Use the table…