Module 2 Practice Exam

Patient J's medical report includes a history of calcipenia, hepatomegaly, hematemesis, and lymphedema. Which suffix denotes a deficiency?

-penia

Which term contains a word root or combining form that means brain?

Encephalitis

The single-celled animals that cause diseases such as trichomoniasis are called fungi. T/F

False

Patient V's medical report indicates that he has an iatrogenic disorder, meaning that it

was a negative reaction to a treatment.

Anesthesia literally means

without sensation

Which term encountered during interpretation of diagnostic images indicates a substance that does not permit the passage of x-rays?

Radiopaque

Which term contains a word root or combining form that means kidney?

Renal

The distinction between a disease and a disorder is the fact that a disorder tends to be

a disruption of or interference with function

Swelling of the eyelid is

blepharedema

Arthur suffers from headaches. Your knowledge of suffixes helps you to identify the term for this symptom in his medical record as

cephalalgia.

Which of the following is a diagnostic procedure on the intestines?

colonoscopy

Vibrios are ________________ bacteria.

comma-shaped

The two suffixes that mean dilatation are _______________ and ________________.

ectasia; -ectasis

The medical term for destroying or breaking down by the use of electricity is

electrolysis.

What is the combining form in the term fluoroscope?

fluor/o

Fixation of the breast is called

mastoplexy

After his accident, Andre undergoes a surgical repair of his kidney, a procedure called

nephroplasty

The meaning of the abbreviation PE is

physical examination

A(n) _____ is a prediction as to the probable outcome of a disease.

prognosis

Communicable disease is transmitted from one person or animal to another by all of the following means except

spontaneous infection.