Medical Terminology
Across
- 1. a fear of something
- 5. loss of (de-) intellectual function
- 6. a short word added at the beginning of a root to modify the meaning
- 9. study and treatment of the skin
- 12. specialist in the study and treatment of the heart
- 13. infection with parasites or behaving as a parasite
- 14. roots shown with a combining vowel
- 15. surgery
- 17. first
- 22. high body temperature (hyper)
- 23. pertaining to a diet
- 24. large enough to see without a microscope (macro)
- 26. vein
- 27. care and treatment of children
- 29. cancer in the white blood cell
- 30. dark pigment that colors the hair and skin
Down
- 2. loss of sensation
- 3. bluish discoloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen
- 4. study and treatment of the skeleton and joints
- 7. many forms
- 8. easy or painless death
- 10. medical specialty concerning pregnancy and birth
- 11. describes hoe people differ in the sense on which they most depend to learn
- 12. contains more than one root
- 15. a short word added at the end of a root to modify the meaning
- 16. red blood cells
- 18. very small cells (micro)
- 19. the fundamental unit of each medical word
- 20. a yellow growth
- 21. commonly used as shorthand in case histories
- 25. an abbreviation formed from he first letter of each word in a phrase
- 28. increased urination