Question

Medical Terminology

Assignment - Nervous System

Building Medical Words

Use encephal/o (brain) to build words that mean:

1. Disease of the brain __________________________________________________________________

2. Radiography of the brain ______________________________________________________________

Use neur/o (nerve) to build words that mean:

3. Pain in a nerve _____________________________________________________________________

4. Specialist in the study of the nervous system_______________________________________________

Use the suffix -plegia (paralysis) to build words that mean:

5. Paralysis of one half (of the body) ______________________________________________________

6. Paralysis of four (limbs)_______________________________________________________________

Use the suffix -phasia (speech) to build words that mean:

7. Difficult speech ______________________________________________________________________

8. Lacking or without speech _____________________________________________________________

9. Incision of the skull __________________________________________________________________

10. Surgical repair of the skull_____________________________________________________________

2. solve photo matching

Match the medical term from column A with the correc meaning from column B: A В Venography 1 Necrosis or death of the myocardial tissues due to lack of blood supply Mitral regurgitation 2 Inflammation of the inner layer of the heart Mitral stenosis 3 Inflammation of the outer layer of the heart Myocardial infarction 4 Inflammation of the vein resulting in blood clot or thrombus formation. Endo/card/itits Pericard/itis Thrombus Brady/cardi/a Tachy/cardia Thrombo/phleb/itis 5 Backflow of blood through the mitral valve 6 Increase in heart rate 7 Narrowing of the mitral valve 8 X-ray of veins; used to identify a thromb 9 Decrease in the heart rate 10 Formation of a blood clot in the blood vessels but does not move

Answer 1

Answer 1. Encephalopathy

2. Encephalography

3. Neuralgia

4.neurologist

5. Hemiplegia

6. Quadriplegia

7 dysphasia

8. Aphasia

9. Craniotomy

10. Cranioplasty

ANSWER

1.venography. 8th

2.mitral regurgitation. 5th

3.mitral stenosis. 7th

4 myocardial infraction. 1st

5. Endo carditis. 2nd

6 pericarditis. 3rd

7thrombus. 10th

8bradycardia. 9th

9 tachycardia 6th

10thrombophelebitis 4th