Chapter 2: The Basics of Medical Terminology Self Test

"I swear by Apollo the Phsycisian and Asclepius and Hygieia and Pancaceia..." is he beginning of what famous oath?

Hippocratic

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

Pain

The term "prognosis" means

before knowledge

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":

-stasis

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

adjectives

A patient with "leukocytosis" would have a white blood cell count of"

11000 (hight)

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

Ankylos/ing

A patient with cyanos has which skin color

blue

In the divided medical term "anthr/o/pathy, the "o" is the

combining vowel used in both the stem word and the suffix

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

conveying towards the center

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

crab-like tumor

Adjectives usually modify a noun (thing named) denoting quality, quantity, extent, or _____ .

distinction of the object from something else

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

drooping

The combining form that means cause of disease:

eti/o-

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

fibrochondroma

Breaking a compound term into component word parts (usually with its combining vowel or vowels) is called:

fracturing

Antonyms comprise medical terms and are words that:

have opposite meanings

I 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 what removed:

kidney

Cancers of the circulatory system include:

leukemia and lymphomas

A fatty tumor is called a(n):

lipoma

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

little change, slow progression, and long duration

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

neoplasm

A patient that is "euthyroid" has:

normal thyroid function

The most common combining vowel is

o

The medical term that means " the science 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 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" pay be used as part of which word parts:

por- and -osis

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

prefix

The term " surgery" literally means:

procedure fo 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 word

An atrophic muscle would appear:

shrunken

A patient with rnhabdomylosis 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 vox

The term "metastasis" means:

to spread

The term "diagnosis" means:

total knowledge

A patient who is adducting 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 parts:

word root and combining vowel

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

word root or stem word

A compound term is derived from two or more:

word roots