Exam #1 Medical Term

Which of the following cranial nerves are responsible for caring nerve impulses associated with the special senses

1,2,8,9

There are _____ cranial nerves

12

Acupuncture has had mainstream appeal in the United States since

1970s

the optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and abducens nerves all innervate the eye and are referred to as cranial nerves

2, 3, 4, and 6

What is the strongest tendon in the body?

Achilles tendon

All hypnosis techniques, promote a relaxed state, and what type of brainwave activity

Alpha

The diagnostic term for a disease characterized by early senility confusion, loss of recognition of persons, or familiar surroundings, and restlessness is

Alzheimer's disease

Lou Gehrig's disease is also known as

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Who is considered the founder of osteopathy?

Andrew Taylor Stiller

Which of these individuals promoted a holistic healing approach to medicine?

Andrew Weil

The term for an x-ray film recording of a joint is

Anthro /gram

The diagnostic turn rheumat/oid arthritis refers to

Auto immune disease often with cartilaginous hypertrophy

Which of these is one of Kübler-Ross stages of death

Bargaining

Which of the following is a noninvasive roentgenograohy diagnostic technique

CAT Scan

The diagnostic term that means abnormal buildup of lime or calcium in tissue is

Calvin/ osis

_____ is a gristle like connective tissue between the bones

Cartilage

The ___ deals with hearing, and the ______deals with balance

Cochlear and labyrinth

What is a brake in the distal portion of the radius and the ulna of the arm called

Colles' wrist fracture

The combining forms or terms that literally mean " rib" are

Cost/o and pleuro-

Meniscus literally means:

Crescent-shaped

With Mumps often there's information of the tear gland or

Dacryoadenitis

What is an inflammation of the tear sac

Dacryocystitis

Who is considered the founder of chiropractics?

Daniel David Palmer

Mydriatic drops____to pupils

Dilate

Groups of muscle fiber, bundles, and their coverage are referred to as an

Fasciculus

What method is used to treat brain cancer by directing radiation at precise brain locations

Gamma Knife

A condition that causes buildup of uric acid crystals in the blood with deposition in joints is

Gout

Thermogram literally means

Heat or temperature/ recording

What is paralysis on the opposite half of the body from where brain damage occurred

Hemiplegia

Blank is a defect in the vision, in which the race focused behind the retina due to a flat and eye globe, a flat and cornea, or some other type of reactive area

Hyperopia

The term which literally means "under/ribs cartilage/condition" refers to which diagnosis?

Hypochondriasis

The diagnostic term anterior polio/mey /itis means an

Inflammation of the spinal cord frontal gray horn

The term " ophthalmo/scope/e" means

Instrument to examine the eye

What kind of seizures has contractions that usually start in a group of muscles on one side of the body and spread to the extremities of the whole body?

Jacksonian

Which oil might an aroma therapist use to attempt to ease a clients joint pain

Juniper

Sally had a pyelogram perform today to help her diagnose her

Kidney infection

A " pyelogram" records information about the

Kidney pelvis

The medical condition of blank is the backward, bending of the thoracic spinal vertebra

Kyphosis

The small organs that produce and drain tears from the are

Lacrimal glands and ducts

Blank or bands of connective tissue that hold bones together

Ligaments

Aromatherapy starts to have its effects on which part of the brain

Limbic system

_____ is an abnormal anterior concave cover of the spine and is referred to as swayback

Lordosis

Which of the following produces a radio frequency radiation pulse, image of soft and hard tissue in multiple planes

MRI

What is the manipulation of the body soft tissues by stroking, rubbing kneeing and tapping?

Massage

If John is abducting his arm, he is

Moving it towards his body

Which of these conditions would be treated as phakic intraocular lenses

Myopia

Any therapy that relies on the body on healing powers is considered

Natural

The court likes structures that carry bioelectrical impulses from one part of the body to another are called

Nerves

The medical abbreviation, CNS,PNS and ANS referred to the divisions of

Nervous system

The most common combining vowel is

O

A lumbar puncture is used to

Obtain spinal fluid samples

The term " nebuliz/er" means

One who causes a mist

The _____ is devoid of rods and cones enhances referred to as the Blindspot

Optic nerve

The term that means one who studies and treats disease of the ear is

Otologist

The medical term that means a specialist who studies and treats, the disease and disorder of the ear, nose and throat is

Otorhinolaryngologist

The diagnostic term sublaxation actually means

Partial joint dislocation

The medical term for a specialist who treats and diagnosis foot diseases and disorders, such as corns bunions clawfoot ingrown toenails is an

Pod/iatr/ist

The diagnostic term for inflammation , or the gray matter of the spinal cord is called

Polio/myel / itis

A patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's diseases characterized by

Pre-senile dementia

The term "tympanostomy" literally means

Procedure of cutting and making a mouth like opening in the eardrum

Bio feedback is a type of_______ therapy

Psychosomatic

The combining words form that refers to the spine vertebral column, and or vertebrae are

Rachi/o- and spindly/o-

What treats the body using principles similar to acupuncture and acupressure

Reflexology

The_____ is made up of a vascular coat, and the rods and cones that help integrate light in colors

Retina

Blank is a pathological condition where the retina becomes partially or completely separated from the choroid portion of the eye, or vascular layer

Retinal detachment

What word part contains the fundamental meaning of the word?

Root word

The diagnostic term herniated disk in reference to an intervertebral cartilage means that cartilage is/has

Ruptured or protruded

Who is considered the founder of homeopathy?

Samuel Hahnemann

What do forensic psychiatrist specialize in?

Sanity during crimes

Holistic therapy stress the importance of

Self care and illness prevention

A muscular dystrophy patient who presents with a condition of winged scapular means that they have a a problem with their

Shoulder

Which was the first 3-D printed drug approved by the FDA

Spritam

A patient who has cholecystolithotripsy is having wet process, performed to their gallbladder

Stone Crushed

What is the disorder of the eye in which the optic access cannot be directed at the same object?

Strabismus

Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is best known for:

The Stages of Death and Dying

The diagnostic term hammertoe means

The toes are bent over or down

Personality disorders are grouped into blank type of clusters

Three

An old French strain means

To draw tight

The directional term lateral describes movement in which direction

To the side

The directional terminal lateral describes movement in which direction

To the side

What type of epilepsy caused by trauma to the brain

Traumatic

Dr. alexis put her patient in the prone position. This means that the patient is.

Turned down

The procedure of using an instrument that produces high frequency sound waves to produce an image of the size or shape of a body part is called:

Ultra/sono/graph/y

What does Reiki mean in Japanese?

Universal vital force

Parkinson disease causes body tremors, weak speech, shuffling of feet and depression other patients make experience

Voice loss, sphincter problems fall and paralysis

The medical term glaucoma actually means

Waterfall, Cloudy, or Gray Vision

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

Word root or stem word

Dyslexia literally means:

a condition of words that are faulty or difficult to

The term cryosurgery literally means

a procedure of one who works by hand with cold

The term "Mammogram" means:

a recording of the breast

A defibrillator is used to correct

abnormal heart rhythms

The medical term paranoia literally refers to a behavior that is out of touch with reality or

abnormal thinking or reasoning

Reflexology literally means

again/bends/of/procedure of

Aromatherapy oils are

all of the above (inhaled, applied during massage, used with baths)

What physicians use antagonistic substances to attach to disease organisms or illness?

allopathic

Therapeutic touch therapy is classified as what type of medicine

alternative

A pathologist noted that a skin biopsy specimen exhibited hyperplasia. This means there is/are

an increase in cell number

Acupuncture may be used during surgery for:

anesthesia

What does the word part talus mean?

ankles

The coronal plane divides the body into the

anterior and posterior portions

Which of the following is a personality disorder, and cluster b

antisocial personality disorder

The interruption of blood supply to the brain caused by a cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, or cerebral hemorrhage is called

apoplexy

cerebral ischemia results in a condition termed

apoplexy

The word part Axillo- means

armpit

The diagnostic term that literally means inflamed joint is

arthr/itis

Specialist who specializes in the study of hearing is

audiologist

The word part Occiputo- means

back of head

What is the basis of Chinese traditional medicine?

balance within the body

The hypoglossal nerve is located

below the tongue

Ultrasonography literally means process of recording

beyond normal ranges/sound

A self suggestion technique, which assist patients in controlling stress is

biofeedback

Which mental disorder involves manic periods and depressive episodes?

bipolar disorder

The medical term hematoma means

blood swelling or tumor

A trephine is used to remove

bone

Osteomyelitis literally means:

bone/marrow/inflamed

A PET scan is used to detect metabolism of glucose by the:

brain

A patient having an electroencephalogram is having a recording made of the electrical activity in their:

brain

The combining form encephalo refers to

brain

The word part Cerebro- means:

brain

The cranial nerves are string, like groups of nerves coming off the

brain and brain stem

Blank is characterized by soreness, tenderness, and weakness of the muscles of the thumb caused by pressure on the median nerve.

carpal tunnel syndrome

The directional term that means towards the lower end of the body is

caudal

The term that describes movement towards the top of the body is

cephalic

The diagnostic term for condition, characterized by brain damage and lack muscle control, and partial paralysis is

cerebral palsy

Folk remedies are based on

charms

What does the word bucco- mean

cheek

Which of these treatments would commonly be labelled "orthodox" medicine?

chemotherapy

The word part Mento- means:

chin

The surgical term for the repair of cartilage is called

chondr/o/plasty

The term that means cartilage, swelling or cartilage tumor is

chondroma

If an athlete is circumducting in their arm, they are moving it

circle

The word part Cleido- means

clavicle

The diagnostic term Cataract actually means:

clouding of the lens of the eye

A blank fracture means the bones are broken up into small parts

comminuted

What interprets color?

cones

The mucous membrane lining the inner eyelids and eyeball globe is the

conjunctiva

Blank is caused by foreign bodies or pathogenic organisms that cause inflammation and petechial hemorrhages.

conjunctivitis

Miotic eye drops cause the eyes pupils to

constrict

Which of the following means skull?

cranio

Herpes in Greek means

creep

The combining form Scolio means

crooked, bent

The term Ankylosis literally means:

crooked, stiff, bent/ condition

Lithotripsy is a procedure for:

crushing calculi

"X-rays" produce pictures of what type of body tissue and bones?

dense

The diagnostic medical term multiple sclerosis refers to

deterioration or loss of the myelin sheath nerve body covering

Which of the following can be diagnosed by looking at the retina

diabetes

What uses a high frequency electromagnetic current produced by a microwave device to generate heat within body tissues?

diathermy

Which of the following means double vision

diplopia

The directional term for movement towards the back of the body is

dorsal

an otoscope is used to view the

ear

the word part oto- means:

ear, hearing

Small acupuncture needles are used to treat which area of the body?

ears

Acupuncture needles are used in combination with which of these during treatment

electrical current

Electric shock therapy is also known as:

electroconvulsive therapy

The surgical term Phalang/ectomy means:

excision of a finger or toe bone

The movement in which a limb is placed in a straight position is called:

extension

A "Tonometer" measures pressure within the ________:

eye

The medical terms Palpebr/itis and Blepharo/ptosis refer to:

eyelid inflammation and eyelid drooping

The diagnostic term "Hyperopia" means:

farsightedness

Stress fractures are also referred to as

fatigue fractures

The diagnostic term muscular dystrophy means

faulty muscle development

The word part Fibro- means

fiber

"Fibromyalgia" literally means:

fibers/muscle/pain

The word part Dactylo- means:

finger, toe

A "Pacemaker" can be external or internal and usually generates electrical stimuli to the heart muscle with ________:

fixed and/or alternate impulses

The diagnostic term pes planus means

flat foot

The diagnostic term avulsion means

forceful tearing away of part of a body structure

The word part Frons- means:

forehead or front

The prefix quadri- and tetra- mean:

four

The word part Pia- means:

gentle

A PET scan is used to detect

glucose metabolism

the word part Gilo- means:

glue

What is the word part for jaw?

gnatho-

The prefix is hemi and semi mean

half

The word part Mano- means

hand

Which of these body parts is commonly massaged by practitioners of reflexology?

hand

The word part Duro- means:

hard

The combining forms of acous- and Audi/o- both mean

hearing

A thallium scan is used to detect damage to the

heart

An EKG or ECG is used to record information about electrical activity in the

heart

If an electrocardiogram shows that a patient has tachycardia, it means that the patients

heart rate is elevated

Which of the following is not a personality disorder,in cluster c

histrionic personality disorder

Which type of medicine emphasize self-care, and illness prevention

holistic

What physicians administer small doses of similar disease substances to allegedly stimulate the natural body response of immunity?

homeopathic

Gout is caused by

hyperuricemia

Which of these is not a sign of brain concussion?

increased appetite

Osteoarthritis is

inflammation of a bone joint causing bone hypertrophy

The diagnostic term encephalitis actually means

inflammation of the brain

The medical term myringitis actually means

inflammation of the eardrum

The medical term Kerat/itis actually means:

inflammation of the eye's cornea

The diagnostic term blepharitis means

inflammation of the eyelid

The term conjunctivitis literally means together/joined/inflamed. It actually means:

inflammation of the membrane that covers the eyeball and the eyelid

The term "Bronchoscope" literally means:

instrument to view trachea-like structures

"Complementary or Alternative Medicine" is now referred to as ________:

integrated medicine

Massage and reflexology are examples of

integrated medicine

The abbreviation ICU refers to an

intensive care unit

The "KUB" examination looks for defects in the

kidney, ureter, bladder

A patient with "genu osteoporosis" means the condition is located in their:

knee

The diagnostic term genu varum means

knees are bent outward

The combining form of a term that means hump or hunchback is

kypho-

The tear glands that lubricate and protect the eye are called

lacrimal glands

The eye structure that lies directly behind the pupil and iris is the:

lens

Homeopathic literally means

like or same/as disease/refers

What is the yellow spot in the retina lateral to the optic nerve?

macula

Three. Layered membrane that covers the brain in spinal cord and literally means membrane is called the

meninges

What is an inflammation of the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord?

meningitis

opisthotonos is frequently associated with

meningitis

Otitis media is an inflammation of

middle ear

The combining form phren/o- means:

mind

The word part Mater- means:

mother

Fluoroscopy is used to record

moving body parts

Demyelination occurs in which of the following diseases?

multiple sclerosis

The diagnostic term, my/asthenia gravis actually means

muscle heavy and weak

The medical term tetanus usually refers to

muscle spasms

The somatic peripheral nervous system is composed of neurons that control the soma or body they specifically control, which of the following

muscles

The term that means spinal cord inflammation is:

myel/itis

The combining form ______ means bone marrow or spinal cord

myelo-

A group of myofilaments make up:

myofibril

Lasik laser surgery can be used to correct

myopia

Concave lenses are used to correct

myopia; presbyopia

Which type of medicine uses vitamin therapy, herbal remedies and chiropractic care

natural

The medical term myopic actually means

nearsighted

acupuncture literally means

needle puncture

the word part Neuro- means

nerve

The term neuralgia is defined as:

nerve pain

The diagnostic term that means tumor made up of nerve cells

neur/oma

What cellular organelle contains chromosomes and has the literal meaning "nut"?

nucleus

aromatherapy uses which principal

olfactory stimulation

A cortical cataract occurs:

on the edge of the lens nucleus

The muscle term adductor literally means

one who/draws/toward

If a fracture has a protrusion through the skin, it is a

open fracture

The nerve in the eye that carries visual impulses from the retina to the brain is the:

optic nerve

What word part means socket?

orbito

A body part that is formed of two or more types of body tissue and performs one or more specific functions is called a(n)

organ

The diagnostic term that means abnormal loss of bone density is

osteoporosis

The medical term for a fungal infection of the ear is

otomycosis

The diagnostic term ot/algia means

pain in the ear

The medical term cephalodynia means

pain in the head

What is the temporary or permanent loss of sensation loss of ability to move or inability to control movement

palsy

The medical term quadriplegia means

paralysis of all four limbs

Which of the following is a personality disorder in cluster A

paranoid personality disorder

What covers the inner surface of the ciliary process?

pars ciliaris

Which part of the retina is the sensory portion associated with sight?

pars optica

Cerebral palsy is characterized by

partial or complete paralysis caused by a brain injury

Which term means flat footed

pes planus

What word part means thumb?

pollex

Swelling of the bursa below the knee is diagnostically referred to as:

prepatellar bursitis

The term Auscultation literally means

process or procedure for listening

The term percussion literally means

process or procedure of striking

The term that describes the direction closest to the point of origin is

proximal

The word part Iro- means:

rainbow

"Angiograms" are used for ________:

recording pictures of blood vessels

The term ocular literally means

refers to the eye

What is the pathological condition where the retina becomes separated from the choroid layer?

retinal detachment

The medical term Trach/oma refers to a chlamydial infection causing:

rough swollen eye lesions

The medical term Burs/itis literally means:

sac inflamed

The term for the plane that divides the body into right and left halves is the

sagittal

The outer layer of the eye is the

sclera

The medical term epilepsy means

seizure upon the mind and body

Placebo literally means

shall please

The word part omo- means

shoulder

An electromyogram is used to record information about electrical activity in the:

skeletal muscle

"Hypnosis" literally means:

sleep/condition

a planter wart is located on the

sole of foot

The medical term optometrist literally means

specialist in measuring sight

The structure that conducts nerve impulses to, and from the brain, and serves as a reflex center for some sensory information, without input from the brain is the

spinal cord

The word part myelo- means

spinal cord

the word part Myelo- means

spinal cord

A "Myelogram" is used to record information about which tissues?

spinal cord and nerves

What does the word part Rachio- mean

spine

The etiologic agent of syphilis is a

spirochete

The medical student class learned about auscultation today in order to perform this procedure they used a/an

stethoscope

What is caused by a staphylococcus infection of the eyelid and sebaceous gland?

stye

Placebo effect therapy uses the principle of

suggestion and believability

pectus excavatum is more commonly referred to as

sunken chest

If one is flat on their back and face up, they are in _______ position

supine

The diagnostic term rotary cuff avulsion actually means

tearing of shoulder joint soft tissues, ligaments, and deep tendons

What attaches muscle to bone?

tendons

A tear of the tendons that hook the muscles of the forearm to the elbow is

tennis elbow

The medical term Opistho/tonos means:

tension that bends head backward

The medical term that means the same as quadriplegia is

tetraplegia

The medical term psychiatry literally means

the procedure of process of treating or curing the mind

The lungs and heart are found in the

thoracic cavity

The term schizophrenia actually refers to a type of psychosis that is also characterized by

thought deterioration and lack of social functioning

The combining form hist/o- means

tissue or web-like

The term "Phlebotomy" means:

to cut into a vein

The word part Fiss- means

to divide, split

The term "Catheter" literally means:

to let down into

The term sphygmomanometer literally means

to measure the pulse by hand

The term "depression" derives from the Latin word deprimere, meaning:

to press down

The medical term Concussion means:

to shake violently

A Blank is usually a sudden traction on a muscle, ligament, and joint capsule.

to sprain

Dento-, Donto- and Odonto- all mean:

tooth

The directional term 'inferior' describes movement:

toward the lower end of the body

What type of medicine has ancient origins, strong cultural ties, and trained healers?

traditional

Psychotherapy is the process of

treating the mind with nonphysical therapies

Anterior movement can also be called:

ventral

Cryosurgery is used to treat

verrucae

Biopsy literally means Blank /"procedure of."

view of life

The E Eye Chart is used to measure:

visual acuity

The combining form asthenia means

weakness

Pterygium literally means:

wing

The term intravenous injection means

within a vein

The term intramuscular injection literally means

within the muscle

Idiopathic epilepsy is:

without known cause

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

word root and combining vowel

The term trauma refers to a

wound