Chapter 2 Self Test

Which example of the compound term "ankylosing" is fractured correctly?

ankylos/ing

The term "prognosis" means:

before knowledge

The most common combining vowel is

'o'

The word "periosteum" has a prefix which means

around

Verb variations of a stem word usually describe:

action taken, condition, or state

The term "clinical" means:

at patient's bedside

Which surgical suffix means "procedure or process of cutting out"

-ec/tom/y

The suffix that means "to control or stop" is:

-stasis

Ninety-nine percent of words in a medical dictionary are composed of nouns, verbs, and:

adjectives

A patient with cyanosis has which skin color?

blue

In the divided medical term 'arthr/o/pathy', "o" is the:

combining vowel used with both the stem word and suffix

The term 'af/ferent' which may be used to describe sensory impulses is defined as:

conveying toward the center

The literal meaning of the medical term carcin/oma is:

crab-like tumor

Adjectives usually modify a noun to denote quality, quantity, extent, or:

distinction of the object from something else

The prefix of the term catabolism means:

down, under, against

If the patient has "ptosis" of their eyelid, you can expect to see the eyelid

dropping

A tumor of the fibrous and cartilaginous tissue is called a(n):

fibrochondroma

Breaking a compound term into its component word parts combined with a vowel or vowels is called:

fracturing

Antonyms comprise medical terms are are words that:

have opposite meanings

"I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hyiegia and Panaceia..." is the beginning of what famous oath?

hippocratic

In the medical term "pleurisy", what is the meaning of its suffix?

inflamed

The term "stetho/scop/e" literally means:

instrument to examine the chest

A patient who has undergone a nephrectomy has had which of the following removed?

kidney

A fatty tumor is called a(n)

lipoma, steatoma, or adipoma

If an infection is "Chronic" it is characterized by:

little change, low progression, and long duration

The correct way to fracture or divide the medical term melanocarcinoma is:

melano/carcin/oma

The prefix that means "change or after" is

meta-

My/o- is the combining form of a word part that means:

muscle

The medical term for new growth of abnormal tissue or a tumor is:

neoplasm

A patient that is "euthyroid" has:

normal thyroid function

The prefix extra- means

outside

In the medical term "cephalgia" the combining verb form means:

pain

The medical term that means "the science of or study of body changes caused by "disease" is:

path/o/logy

The study of disease is referred to as

pathology

The suffixes -a, -ia, -iac, -al, -ar, -ic, -is, -on, -os, -us, -ium, and -um are used as a generalized actual meaning (not a literal meaning) for the phrase, "refers to or _____."

pertains to

In the divided medical term 'osteopor/o/sis', the slash lines indicate that the vowel "o" may be used as part of which word parts?

por- and -osis

The word part attached to the beginning of the a word root in order to modify its meaning is called a(n)

prefix

The term "surgery" literally means:

procedure of working by hand

The term "graphy" means:

procedure using an instrument to record something

Which word part contains the fundamental meaning of the word?

root

An atrophic muscle would appear:

shrunken

A patient with rhabdomyolysis has destruction of:

striated muscle

In the divided medical term 'sub/hepat/ic', which part is the prefix and which part is the suffix?

sub- and -ic

In the medical term 'arthr/itis', -itis is the:

suffix

The word part attached to the end of a word root in order to modify its meaning is the:

suffix

The term "laryngo/scop/y" literally and actually means:

the procedure of viewing and examining the voice box

The combining form -phas- means:

to speak: utter

The term "metastasis" means:

to spread

The term "diagnosis" means

total knowledge

A patient who is adducing their arm is moving it:

toward their body

The combining form onc/o- means:

tumor

John's physician told him that his disease is idiopathic. this means its cause is

unknown

The combining form or term that literally means "internal organs" is:

viscer/o-

The word "afebrile" has a prefix which means:

without or not

The combining form of a stem word is usually made of two components parts, the:

word root and combining vowel

In the medical term 'intra/ven/ous', -ven- is the:

word root or stem word

A compound term is derived from two or more

word roots