Medical Terminology Final Exam

If a patient has ptosis in their eyelid you can expect to see the eyelid

Drooping

Which surgical suffix means procedure or process of cutting out

Ectomy

The combining form that means "cause of disease" is

Eti/o

A tumor of the fibers 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 compromise medical terms and are words that:

Have opposite meanings

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

Hippocratic oath

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

Inflamed

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

Instrument to examine the chest

A patient who has undergone a nephrectomy his head which of the following removed

Kidney

Cancers of the circulatory system may include:

Leukemia and lymphomas

The medical term for new growth of abnormal tissue or a tumor is called

Neoplasm

A patient that is euthyroid has

Normal thyroid function

The most common combining vowel is

O

In the medical term cephalgia the combining verb form means

Pain

The medical term that means the signs or study of the body changes caused by diseases

Pathology

The suffixes -a, -ia, -iac, -al, -ar, -ic, -is, -on, -os, -us, -ium, -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 (/) indicate that the vowel "o" may be used as part of which word part?

Por- and -osis

The term "surgery literally means

Procedure of working by hand

The term "graphs" means:

Procedure using an instrument to record something

Which word part contains the fundamental meaning of the word?

Root word

And a trophic muscle would appear

Shrunken

The term "metastasis" means:

Spread

Patient with rhabdomyolysis has the distraction of

Striated muscle

In the medical term 'athr/itis' , -itis is the

Suffix

The word part attached 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 term "diagnosis" means:

Total knowledge

A patient who is abducting their arm is moving it

Toward their body

John's physician told him that his disease is idiopathic. This means its cause is

Unknown

The word "afebrile" has a prefix which

Without or not

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

Verb variations of a stem word usually describe

action taken, condition, or state

The term clinical means:

at patient's bedside

The suffix that means to control or stop

-stasis

Patient with leukocytosis would have a white blood cell count of (normal white blood cell count being between 4000 and 10,000 cm³)

11000

99% of the words in a medical dictionary are composed of nouns, verbs and:

Adjectives

Which example of the compound term "ankylosis" is fractured correctly?

Ankylos/ing

The word "periosteum" has a prefix which means

Around

The term "prognosis " means

Before knowledge

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

Adjectives usually modify now to no quality quantity extent or:

Distinction of the object from something else

The literal meaning of the medical term Carcin/oma is

crab-like tumor

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 the word part that means

muscle

The study of disease is referred to as:

pathology

The word part attached to the beginning of a word root in order to modify its meaning is called a

prefix

In the divided medical term 'sub/hepat/ic', which part is the prefix and which part is the suffix?

sub- and -ic

The combining form onc/o- means:

tumor

The combining form or term that literally means internal organs is

viscer/o

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

word root and combining vowel