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Posttest
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Review of the Unit

1. Terms may be composed of a root + suffix.

Medical Term	Root	Meaning	Suffix	Meaning
carcinoma	carcin(o)	crab	oma	tumor
sarcoma	sarc(o)	flesh	oma	tumor
cerebral	cerebr	brain	al	pertaining to

2. Terms may be composed of a prefix + a root.

Medical Term	Prefix	Meaning	Root	Meaning
neoplasm	neo	new	plasm	growth, formation
biped	bi	two	ped	foot
dysfunction	dys	difficult, painful	function	normal action

3. Terms may be composed of a prefix + a root + a suffix.

Medical Term	Prefix	Meaning	Root	Meaning	Suffix	Meaning
hypoglycemia	hypo	under	glyc	sugar	emia	blood
encephalitis	en	in	cepahl	head	itis	inflammation of
pericarditis	peri	around	card	heart	itis	inflammation of

4. Some medical terms are composed of two roots.

Medical Term	Root	Meaning	Root	Meaning
biostatistics	bio	life	statistics	numerical facts
erythroblast	erythr(o)	red	blast	germ cell
microfilm	micr(o)	small	film

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