Saturday, July 21, 2007

i get a gold star!!

i took my first official quiz on Lesson 1 yesterday. it actually gets registered toward my certificate.
i got 100%

i am so excited. i studied so hard. the first Lesson was very difficult for me. jumping back into 'school work' was just weird...and hard. not to mention that medical terms are a friggin' different language! prefixes, root words, suffixes, OH MY!

feel my pain:

dia-
prefix that means 'complete'
epi- prefix that means 'above, upon'
crin/o root that means 'secrete'
erythr/o root that means 'red'
nephr/o root that means 'kidney'
cyst/o root that means 'urinary bladder'
-gram suffix that means 'to record'
-cyte suffix that means 'cell'
-algia suffix that means 'pain'

there are 16 prefixes, 40 root words, and 23 suffixes in this lesson. bring on lesson 2!!

3 comments:

SplendidlyImperfect said...

Check you out! Does that mean
DIASARALGIA means I'm a complete pain?

Susanne P. said...

actually, no. the suffix comes around to the front, not on paper but in the definition. for example:

cystalgia means pain in the cells or painful cells.

freakin' confusing, but nice try. LOL

Danea Burleson said...

UGH! I hurt just reading that! LOL...But that is fantastic news! You go girl. :)