med term- ch.1 study plan quizzes

Your patient has a muscular disorder that makes the calf muscles look disproportionately large. The correct spelling for this term is

Pseudohypertrophy

The root word that refers to the lung is

Pulmon/o

The prefix tetra has the same meaning as the prefix

Quadri

The suffix -rrhexis means "to

Rupture

A patient who has bradycardia has a blank heart rate

Slow

By dividing the medical term otorhinolaryngologist, we learn that it means

A specialist in the ear, nose, and voice box

In taking a phone message from a physician about a patients allergies, you cannot tell if she says "lasix" (a drug) or "latex" (rubber like material) you should..

Ask the physician to spell the word for you

You are writing down an answering machine message about a doctors orders regarding a patients rib pain. You cannot tell if he said "intracostal (within the rib) or "intercostal" (between the ribs) you should..

Call the physician and ask for clarification

Another term for a word root is

Combining form

Some words sound similar but have very different meanings. A patient in need of a gastroscopy who is scheduled for a gastrostomy would have a problem since gastroscopy involved visually examining the stomach and gastrostomy involves

Creating a surgical opening in the stomach

A patient with an enteropathy has a

Disease of the small intestine

When interpreting a medical term, the first step is to

Divide the word into its word parts

You are building a medical adjective that describes something located above the stomach. You would use the term

Epigastric

The term nephritis means "inflammation of the

Kidney

When in doubt about how to spell a medical term, you should..

Look it up in a medical dictionary

Combing vowels are important because they

Make it easier to pronounce long medical terms

The suffix that means "abnormal softening" is

Malacia

The most important reason for proper spelling and pronunciation of medical term is

Many terms sound and are spelled similarly but have completely different meanings

You are building a medical term that means "the study of small living things." You would use the term

Microbiology

In building the medical term for drooping or sagging of a kidney out of position, you would use the term

Nephroptosis

In the word osteoarthritis the combing vowel is what?

O

The suffix that means "to surgically creating an opening" is

Ostomy

The prefix extra means

Outside the body

Sometimes there is the same or similarly sounding term for different parts of the body. If a male patient has a cervicalgia, he would likely have..

Pain of the cervical vertebrae of the spine

In medical terminology, building complex medical terms is similar to

Piecing together a puzzle

The term that describes a surgical repair or reshaping of the nose is

Rhinoplasty

The suffix that means "to suture" is

Rrhaphy

In dividing terms for translation, it is important to remember that every medical term must have a

Suffix

The term gastroenteritis is comprised of

Two combining forms and a suffix

In the medical term otorhinolaryngology, the word root laryng/o means

Voice box

combining vowel

a vowel (usually o) that links the word root to another word root or a suffix

prefix

beginning of the word

suffix

end of the word

root word

foundation of the word

Due to bowel obstruction, your patient had a section of the small bowel removed and has a procedure to create an opening from the small bowel to the outside. The proper spelling for this procedure is..

ileostomy

The prefix that means "normal" is

Eu

Ophthalmology is the study of the

Eye

An important part of translating medical terms is context. If a patient has high blood pressure, she has

Hypertension

A patient with an anthropathy has a disease or the

Joints