Medical Terminology Self Test Chapter 2
"I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia..." is the beginning of what famous oath?
Hippocratic
Which example of the compound term "ankylosing" is fractured correctly?
ankylos/ing
The term "prognosis" means:
before knowledge
The term "Laryngo/scop/y" literally and actually means:
The procedure of viewing and examining the voice box
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 term 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 a patient has "ptosis" of their eyelid, you can expect to see the eyelid:
drooping
A tumor of the fibrous and cartilaginous tissue is called a:
fibrochondroma
Breaking a compound term into its component word parts with a vowel or vowels is called:
fracturing
Antonyms comprise medical terms and are words that:
have opposite meaning
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
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 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 most common combining vowel is:
o
The prefix extra- means:
outside
In the medical term "cephalgia," the combing 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 for phrase "refers to or ___."
pertains to
In the divided medical term 'osteopor/o/sis', the slash lines (/) indicated that the vowel "o" may be used as part of which 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 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 word
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 combining form -phas- means:
to speak, utter
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 component 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