Medical Terminology Chapter 2 Test
"I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and hygieia and panaceia" is the beginning of
Hippocratic Oath
The term "hyperplasia" means
Increase in development
The term stetho/scop/e means
Instrument to examine the chest
The most common combining vowel is
O
In the medical term "osteopor/o/sis", the / indicate that the vowel 'o' maybe 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
Prefix
The term prognosis means
before knowledge
In the medical term "sub/hepat/ic", which part is the prefix and which part is the suffix
Sub- and -ic
In the medical term "arthr/iris", -itis is the
Suffix
pertains to
The phrase, refers to or _____, is a generalized actual meaning (not a literal meaning) used for the suffixes -a, -ia, -iac, -al, -ar, -ic, -is, -on, -os, -us, -ium, and -um.
The term laryngo/scop/y literally means
The procedure of viewing and examining the voice box
The term "metastasis" means
To spread
The term "diagnosis" means
Total knowledge
The combining form or term that literally means "internal organs" is
Viscer/o-
In the medical term "intra/ven/ous", -ven- is the
Word root or stem word
Verb variations of a stem word usually describe:
action taken, condition, or state
The suffix that means to control or stop is
-stasis
The term "clinical" means
At patients bedside
In the medical term "arthr/o/pathy", o is the
Combining vowel used with both the stem and the suffix
The term "af/ferent" (as in sensory impulses) is defined as
Conveying toward the center
The literal meaning of the Medical term carcinoma is
Crab-like tumor "invaded with crab-like leg growths"
epithelial or covering cell malignant tumor
carcinoma
Adjectives usually modify a noun denoting quality, quantity, extent, or _______
distinction of the object from something else
If a tumor is found to be benign, it is:
encapsulated, slow growing, and expansive
The combining form that means cause of disease is
eti/o
A tumor of the fibrous and cartilaginous tissue is called
fibrochondroma
The suffix -plas/ia Is a compound suffix that refers to
formation, growth or development
Breaking a compound term into component word parts is called
fracturing
Cancers of the circulatory system include:
leukemia and lymphomas
A fatty tumor is called a(n):
lipoma, steatoma, or adipoma
If an infection is "Chronic" it is characterized by:
little change, slow progression, and long duration
The abdominal cavity contains the
liver
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 is
neoplasm
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 term surgery literally means
procedure of working by hand
The term graphy means
procedure using an instrument to record something
The word part that contains the fundamental meaning of a word is the
root word "stem word"
The word part attached to the end of a word root in order to modify its meaning is the
suffix
The combining form onc/o- means
tumor
The combining form of a stem word is usually made of two component parts the
word root and combining vowel
