Medical terms for medical assistants
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You are being interviewed for a job as a medical assistant. As part of the interview process, the office manager tells you there will be a short test to assess your familiarity with using roots, prefixes, and suffixes to understand medical terms.
You are taken to a quiet room and given 6 medical terms. You are to identify if they have a root, suffix, or prefix; write the meaning of each of those; and define the medical term.
Identify if the following have a root, suffix, or prefix; write the meaning of each; and define the medical term:
* Cardiomyopathy
* Gastroparesis
* Hematoma (Hint: State the literal meaning of this word you will get by correctly analyzing the root, prefix, or suffix)
* Arteriosclerosis
* Cystoscopy
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This solution provides information about several medical terms that medical assistants should know.
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Cardiomyopathy: Literal meaning- Heart muscle disease. Definition: a disease that weakens and enlarges your heart muscle making it harder for your heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. From the Greek root cardia meaning heart and the root myocardium- heart muscle
Gastrparesis: Literal meaning- Gastric emptying. Definition: a condition in which your stomach muscles do not function normally. In gastroparesis the muscles in the wall of your stomach work poorly or not at all. It prevents your stomach ...
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