Medical Terminology Simplified

8–22 Men/o/pause, a natural process, is the gradual ending of the menstrual

cycle, which also results in an estrogen hormone deficiency. Hormone replacement

therapy (HRT) given orally or as a trans/derm/al patch may be used to relieve un-

comfortable symptoms of men/o/pause.

Identify terms in this frame that mean

cessation of the menses:__________ / _____ / ____________________

through, across the skin:____________________ / __________ / __________

8–23 The term pre/men/o/pause refers to a time period before men/o/pause.

Can you build a word that refers to a time period aftermen/o/pause?

__________ / __________ / _____ / ____________________

8–24 The suffixes -rrhageand -rrhagiamean bursting forth (of). Hem/o/rrhage

denotes a____________________ ____________________(of) blood.

8–25 The CF in hem/o/rrhage that denotes blood is

____________________ / _____.

8–26 The elements hemat/o, hem/o, and -emiamean____________________.

8–27 Hemat/o/logy is the study of____________________.

8–28 A hemat/oma is a localized collection or swelling of blood, usually clotted,

in an organ, space, or tissue, caused by a break in the wall of a blood vessel.

Analyze hemat/oma by defining the elements.

hemat:____________________

-oma:____________________

8–29 Use hemat/oto build medical words that mean

specialist in the study of blood:

____________________ / _____ / ____________________

disease of the blood:____________________ / _____ / ____________________

vomiting blood:____________________ / ____________________

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men/o/pause

MĔN-ō-pawz

trans/derm/al

trănz-DĔR-măl

post/men/o/pause

PŌST-mĕn-ō-pawz

bursting forth

hem/o

blood

blood

blood

tumor

TOO-mŏr

hemat/o/logist

hē-mă-TŎL-ō-jĭst

hemat/o/pathy

hē-mă-TŎP-ă-thē

hemat/emesis

hĕm-ăt-ĔM-ĕ-sĭs