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