To study body structure and function, the nurse must have an understanding of the vocabulary used in the healthcare field called medical terminology
Healthcare professional use medical terminology to communicate assessment findings, diagnostic test results, and other pertinent information. Based on this information, a client asks the student nurse what the word intravenous means. The student nurse breaks the word into parts for the client. When the student nurse breaks down the word for the client, which part of the word represents the root of the word? A) In
B) Ous
C) Tra
D) Ven
D
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Medical terms are analyzed by breaking them into components: intravenous:
-ous (suffix) means "pertaining to"; intra- (prefix) means "within"; ven (root) means "vein."
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