Medical Terminology Simplified

9–67 Hyper/glyc/emia is a condition of excessive amounts of glucose in the blood. Deficiency of glucose in the blood is known as ...

9–73 The suffix -dipsia denotes a condition of thirst.Poly/dipsia, poly/uria, and poly/phagia are three cardinal signs of diabet ...

9–79 Use oophor/oto construct medical words that mean disease of an ovary:____________________ / _____ / ____________________ in ...

SECTION REVIEW 9-3 Using the following table, write the CF, suffix, or prefix that matches its definition in the space provided ...

418 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Nervous Systems and the spinal nerves (emerging from the spinal cord). The PNS connects the CNS to ...

Nervous System • CHAPTER 9 419 WORD ELEMENTS This section introduces CFs related to the nervous system. Included are key suffixe ...

420 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Nervous Systems SECTION REVIEW 9-4 For the following medical terms, first write the suffix and its ...

9–83 The CF cerebr/orefers to the cerebrum. Build a word that means pertaining to the cerebrum. ____________________ / _________ ...

Boldfaceindicates a word root or combining form. Blueindicates a suffix. Pinkindicates a prefix. 422 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Ne ...

Frame 9–88to Frame 9–91 Nervous System • CHAPTER 9 423 C1C2 C3C4 C6C7 C8 C5 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T11 T12 L1 L2 L3 L4 L ...

Boldfaceindicates a word root or combining form. Blueindicates a suffix. Pinkindicates a prefix. 424 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Ne ...

9–97 Each spin/al nerve has two roots, which are neurons entering or leaving the spinal cord. The dors/al root is made of sensor ...

Boldfaceindicates a word root or combining form. Blueindicates a suffix. Pinkindicates a prefix. 426 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Ne ...

9–108 The CF xen/omeans foreign or strange. Combine xen/oand -phobia to identify the disorder of a person who has a fear of stra ...

428 CHAPTER 9• Endocrine and Nervous Systems SECTION REVIEW 9-5 Using the following table, write the CF, suffix, or prefix that ...

ABBREVIATIONS This section introduces endocrine and nervous system–related abbreviations and their meanings. Additional Medical ...

Chronic metabolic disorder of impaired carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism due to insufficient production of insulin or th ...

Total pituitary impairment that brings about a progressive and general loss of hormone activity Rare adrenal gland tumor that ca ...

Progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by inflammation, hardening, and loss of myelin thro ...

Additional Medical Terms • CHAPTER 9 433 Cervical (neck) Thoracic (upper back) Lumbar (lower back) Sacral Coccygeal C4 injury (q ...