Self Test: Basics of Medical Terminology

"I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia..." is the beginning of what famous oath?

Hippocractic Oath

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"

A patient who is adducting their arm is moving it:

Toward their body

The term "clinical" means:

a patient's bedside

The word "periosteum" has a prefix which means:

around

Verb variations of a stem word usually describe:

action taken, condition, or state

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 "leukocytosis" would have a white blood cell (WBC) count of: (Normal WBC count is 4,000-10,000/cm3).

11000

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

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

drooping

The combining form that means "cause of disease" is:

eti/o

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

fibrochondroma

Breaking a compound term into its component word parts combined with a vowel or vowels is called:

fracturing

Antonyms comprise medical terms and are words that:

have opposite meanings

In the medical term "pleurisy", what is the meaning of its suffix?

inflamed

The term "stethoscope/scop/e" literally means:

instrument to examine the chest

A patient who has undergone a nephrectomy has had which of the following removed?

kidney

Cancers of the circulatory system may 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 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

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 diseases" 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 'osteoporosis/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 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 term "larynx/scop/y" literally and actually 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 one/o- means:

tumor

John's physician told hum 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

A compound term is derived from two or more:

word root

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