Self Test: Basics of Medical Terminology

49. If a patient has "ptosis" of their eyelid, you can expect to see

Drooping

42. Antonyms comprise medical terms and are words that:

Have opposite meanings

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

Hippocratic

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

Inflamed

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

Kidney

50. A patient that is "euthyroid" has:

Normal thyroid function

51. The prefix extra- means:

Outside

48. In the medical term "cephalgia," the combining verb form means:

Pain

36. The term "graphy" means:

Procedure using an instrument to record something

35. The term "prognosis" means:

before knowledge

56. An atrophic muscle would appear:

Shrunken

55. A patient with rhabdomyolysis has destruction of:

Striated muscle

53. A patient who is adducting their arm is moving it:

Toward their body

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

Unknown

43. The word "afebrile" has a prefix which means:

Without or not

12. Verb variations of a stem word usually describe:

action taken, condition, or state

34. The term "clinical" means:

at patient's bedside

47. Which surgical suffix means "procedure or process of cutting out?"

-ec/tom/y

19. The suffix that means "to control or stop" is:

-stasis

40. Ninety-nine percent of words in a medical dictionary are composed of nouns, verbs, and:

adjectives

45. Which example of the compound term "ankylosing" is fractured correctly?

Ankylos/ing

44. The word "periosteum" has a prefix which means

Around

52. A patient with cyanosis has which skin color?

Blue

7. In the divided medical term 'arthr/o/pathy', "o" is the:

combining vowel used with both the stem word and suffix

25. The term 'af/ferent' which may be used to describe sensory impulses is defined as:

conveying toward the center

23. The literal meaning of the medical term carcin/oma is:

crab-like tumor

13. Adjectives usually modify a noun to denote quality, quantity, extent, or:

distinction of the object from something else

30. The prefix of the term catabolism means:

down, under, against

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

fibrochondroma

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

fracturing

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

instrument to examine the chest

31. A fatty tumor is called a(n):

lipoma

27. If an infection is "chronic" it is characterized by:

little change, slow progression, and long duration

24. The correct way to fracture or divide the medical term melanocarcinoma is:

melano/carcin/oma

18. The prefix that means "change or after" is:

meta-

16. My/o- is the combining form of a word part that means:

muscle

22. The medical term for a new growth of abnormal tissue or a tumor is:

neoplasm

6. The most common combining vowel is

o

20. The medical term that means "the science of or study of body changes caused by disease" is"

path/o/logy

29. The study of disease is referred to as:

pathology

11. The suffixes -a, -ia, -iac, -al, -ar, -ic, -on, -os, -us, -ium, and -um are used as generalized actual meaning for the phrase "refers to or _____"

pertains to

10. In the divided medial term 'osteopor/o/sis', the slash lines (/) indicate that the vowel "o" may be used as part of which word parts?

por- and -osis

3) The word part attached to the beginning of a word root in order to modify its meaning is called a(n):

prefix

39. The term "surgery" literally means:

procedure of working by hand

1) Which word part contains the fundamental meaning of the word?

root word

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

sub- and ic-

4. In the medical term 'arthr/itis', -itis is the:

suffix

5. The word part attached to the end of a word root in order to modify its meaning is the:

suffix

38. The term "laryngo/scop/y" literally and actually means:

the procedure of viewing and examining the voice box

17. The combining form -phas- means:

to speak, utter

32. The term "metastasis" means:

to spread

33. The term "diagnosis" means:

total knowledge

21. The combining form onc/o- means

tumor

15. The combining form or term that literally means "internal organs" is:

viscer/o-

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

word root and combining vowel

2) In the medical term 'intra/ven/ous', -ven- is the:

word root or stem word

41. A compound term is derived from two or more:

word roots