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Med Term Final
Question | Answer |
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lord/o | curve, swayback |
Emboli is a plural form | True |
Muscular is an adjective form. | True |
mouth | or/o |
mast/o | breast |
spir/o | breathe |
orth/o | straight |
Dry sebum plugging a pore of the skin; also called a black head | comedo |
The term abduction means movement toward the median line. | False |
stomach | gastr/o |
Common disorder characterized by persistent elevated blood pressure. | Hypertension |
Cellular is an adjective form. | True |
Head cold, upper respiratory infections. | Coryza |
dry | xer/o |
body | somat/o |
scale | squam/o |
whooping cough | pertussis |
All medical words have a prefix. | False |
An ectopic pregnancy is one that is in its correct position. | False |
Enlarged, twisted varicose vein in the rectal region. | Hemorrhoid |
nail | onych/o |
tube (usually fallopian or eustachian tubes) | salping/o |
back (back of body) | dors/o |
yellow | cirrh/o |
brain | encephal/o |
dry | xer/o |
Pseudocyesis means false pregnancy. | True |
eardrum | myring/o |
lip/o | fat |
black | melan/o |
joint | arthr/o |
Used to prevent blood clot formation | anticoagulants |
When a suffix that begins with a vowel is added, the combining form, rather than the word root, precedes the suffix. | False |
hair | pil/o |
Protrusion of any organ or structure through the wall of the cavity in which it is naturally contained. | Hernia |
hidden | crypt/o |
All medical words contain prefixes. | False |
Prefixes are word elements placed at the beginning of words to alter their meaning. | True. |
Medical term for deafness | anacusis |
kidney | nephr/o |
strength | sthen/o |
same, alike | home/o |
ear | aur/o |
throat | pharyng/o |
bone | oste/o |
color | chrom/o |
tongue | gloss/o |
birth | nat/o |
loins, lower back | lumb/o |
feverish | febrile |
woman/female | gynec/o |
muscle | my/o |
cold | cry/o |
blue | cyan/o |
Atrium is an adjective form. | False |
bone marrow; spinal cord | myel/o |
secrete | crin/o |
Tying of a varicose vein and subsequent removal | ligation and stripping |
Infrapubic means below or under the pubis | True |
In the word systole, the final le is pronounced as a separate syllable. | True |
parathyroid glands | parathyroid/o |
potassium | kal/i |
thin, slender | lept/o |
scanty | olig/o |
sweat | hidr/o |
The term mononuclear does not have a prefix. | False |
Collapsed or airless lung | atelectasis |
poison | toxic/o |
Gastr/o is a combining form. | True |
The combining vowel e is commonly used to form medical words. | False |
The suffix for incision is -ectomy. | False |
head | cephal/o |
Radii is a plural form | True |
cause | eti/o |
heart | cardi/o |
navel | umbilic/o |
Tissue is a noun form. | True |
My/algia is a surgical procedure. | False |
Term used to describe a transplantation from another individual. | homologous |
teeth | odont/o |
vagina | colp/o |
Term used to describe a transfusion of recipient's own blood. | autologous |
Medical is a noun form. | False |
The term circumoral means pertaining to above the mouth | False |
calcium | calc/o |
A word root plus o creates a combining form. | True |
fatty plaque | ather/o |
bladder | cysto/o |
gallbladder | cholecyst/o |
hyster/o | uterus |
blood clot | thromb/o |
A combining form is a prefix plus a word root | False |
eye | ophthalm/o |
vein | phleb/o |
foot | pod/o |
skin | cutane/o |
chest | pector/o |
The word gastroenterologist is an example of a compound word. | True |
movement | kinesi/o |
stupor, numbness, sleep | narc/o |