Alberta Health Services Practice Test

What’s being tested is the naming of inflammatory conditions by organ. The term for inflammation of the liver is hepatitis. It uses hepato- (or hepat-) to mean liver, plus the suffix -itis indicating inflammation. That combination makes hepatitis the correct label for liver inflammation. Related terms show other organs: nephritis is inflammation of the kidney, appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix, and gastritis is inflammation of the stomach.