Study guide · Health Science
Medical Terminology is one of the most-entered HOSA competitive events — and one of the most studyable. Every question rewards knowing the prefixes, roots and suffixes that build medical words. This guide collects the high-frequency word parts, proven study strategies, and direct links to our practice quizzes and flashcards for both the middle school and high school versions of the event.
Middle school · Multiple-choice written test
A written test event where you show how well you can read and understand the language of healthcare — the prefixes, roots and suffixes that build medical words.
Full event guideHigh school · Knowledge-based written assessment
A high-school HOSA competitive event focused on medical terminology.
Full event guideThese word parts appear again and again on terminology tests. If you know this table cold, you can decode hundreds of medical words.
Most medical words are built from a prefix, a root and a suffix. Master the parts and you can decode terms you have never seen before.
When a question shows a long term, split it before you answer: 'gastroenteritis' is gastr/o (stomach) + enter (intestine) + -itis (inflammation).
Ten to fifteen minutes a day beats one long cram. Spaced repetition is exactly what the flashcard and quiz tools here are built for.
Learn terms in families — cardiac, respiratory, digestive — so related roots reinforce each other instead of competing in memory.
2891+ practice questions across easy, medium and hard, plus 37 flashcards.
3699+ practice questions across easy, medium and hard, plus 64 flashcards.