Medical Terminology Simplified

6–70 Hemat/orefers to blood.A patient with acute gastr/itis or a peptic ulcer

may vomit blood.

Build a word that means vomiting blood.

____________________ / ____________________

6–71 Bleeding in the stomach may be due to a gastr/ic ulcer and may cause

vomiting of blood. A Dx of vomiting blood is entered in the medical record as

____________________ / ____________________.

6–72 A common symptom of gastr/ic disease is pain. When pain occurs in the

region above the stomach, it is called epi/gastr/ic pain.

Form a word that means pertaining to above or on the stomach.

__________ / ____________________ / __________

6–73 Dys/pepsia literally means painful or difficult digestionand is a form of gas-

tric indigestion. It is not a disease in itself but may be a symptom of disease.

Determine word elements in this frame that mean

digestion:____________________

bad, painful, difficult:__________

6–74 Over-the-counter antacids (agents that neutralize acidity) usually provide

prompt relief of pain from __________ / ____________________.

6–75 The suffix -phagiameans swallowing, eating.Use dys-and -phagiato form a

word that means difficult or painful swallowing.

__________ / ____________________

Analyze dys/phagia by defining its elements:

dys-: __________, ____________________, ____________________

-phagia:____________________, ____________________

6–76 Swallowing air, usually followed by belching and gastric distention, is a

condition known as aer/o/phagia. The CF for airis __________ / _____.

6–77 Infants have a tendency to swallow air as they suck milk from a bottle, a

condition charted as __________ / _____ / ____________________.

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hemat/emesis

hĕm-ăt-ĔM-ĕ-sĭs

hemat/emesis

hĕm-ăt-ĔM-ĕ-sĭs

epi/gastr/ic

ĕp-ĭ-GĂS-trĭk

-pepsia

dys-

dys/phagia

dĭs-FĀ-jē-ă

bad, painful, difficult

swallowing, eating

dys/pepsia

dĭs-PĔP-sē-ă

aer/o

aer/o/phagia

ĕr-ō-FĀ-jē-ă