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