Medical Terminology Simplified

10–40 Hypo/calc/emia is a deficiency of calcium in the blood. The term that

means excessive amount of calcium in the blood is

____________________ / __________ / __________.

10–41 Radi/o/logy, initially widely called roentgen/o/logy, was developed after

discovery of an unknown ray in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, who called his discovery

a roentgen(x-ray). Occasionally you still may see words with roentgen/o, but radi/ois

the preferred term used in the context of medical imaging today.

Radi/o/logy is the branch of medicine concerned with radioactive substances. It is

used to diagnose path/o/log/ical conditions of the skeletal system. A physician who

specializes in the study of x-rays is called a

__________ / _____ / ____________________.

10–42 Radiation is used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Radiation

therapy, also called radi/o/therapy, is treatment of diseases using an external source

of high-energy rays or internally implanted radioactive substances. These rays and

substances are effective in damaging cancer cells and halting their growth.

Treatment of disease using radiation is called

__________ / _____ / ____________________.

10–43 Combine radi/o+ -logistto build a word that means specialist in the study

of x-rays.

__________ / _____ / ____________________

10–44 Although my/oand myel/osound alike, they have different meanings.

My/orefers to ____________________. Myel/orefers to __________

____________________ or the ____________________ __________.

10–45 A myel/o/gram is a radi/o/graph of the spin/al cord after injection of a

contrast medium. The CF for bone marrow and spinal cordis __________ / _____.

10–46 Use -genesisto build a word that means formation of bone marrow.

__________ / _____ / ____________________

10–47 Develop medical words that mean

softening of the spinal cord:__________ / _____ / ____________________

record of the spinal cord:__________ / _____ / __________

Frame 10–32to Frame 10–47

Skeletal System • CHAPTER 10 471

hyper/calc/emia

hī-pĕr-kăl-SĒ-mē-ă

radi/o/logist

rā-dē-ŎL-ō-jĭst

radi/o/therapy

rā-dē-ō-THĔR-ă-pē

radi/o/logist

rā-dē-ŎL-ō-jĭst

myel/o

muscle, bone marrow,

spinal cord

myel/o/genesis

mī-ĕ-lō-JĔN-ĕ-sĭs

myel/o/malacia

mī-ĕl-ō-mă-LĀ-shē-ă

myel/o/gram

MĪ-ĕl-ō-grăm