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Medical Terminology Fill In The Blanks

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Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term ?Answer: myx (mucus) + (swelling) = swelling of the skin caused by deposits under the skin
Question: Translate the medical term adenopathy as literally as .Answer: "Gland
Question: Which medical term means "pain in the ?Answer: Pancreatalgia
Question: Which of the following statements is true the abbreviation TFT?Answer: All of these. 1-It is a test performed to evaluate the function of the thyroid 2-It is a part of the treatment and therapies that assist in getting a patient euthyroid 3-It stands for function test.
Question: Choose the correct translation for the root /o.Answer: surface
Question: Identify and the root in the medical term hypoparathyroidism.Answer: thyroid -
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and of the medical term endocrine?Answer: endo (inside) + crine (secretion) = to secrete internally (i.e., into the )
Question: Which medical term means "calcium in the ?Answer:
Question: medical term means "removal of the thymus"?Answer:
Question: Choose the correct translation for the roots adren/o, /o.Answer: Adrenal
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term acromegaly?Answer: acro (extremities) + megaly (abnormally large) = large extremities
Question: Which medical term "abnormal enlargement of a gland"?Answer: Adenomegaly
Question: Which of the following refer to sex organs?Answer: /o
Question: Pituitary dwarfism and pituitary are both caused by improper secretions from the pituitary gland and primarily affect a person's:Answer: height.
Question: Translate the term hypoglycemic as literally as possibleAnswer: to low blood sugar
Question: A metabolic disease characterized by excessive and hyperglycemia is known as:Answer: mellitus.
Question: Which of the following means "sugar"?Answer: all of -glucos/o 2-gluc/o 3-glyc/o
Question: Translate the medical term adrenomegaly as as possible.Answer: enlargement
Question: is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term pancreatolithiasis?Answer: pancreato (pancreas) + lith (stone) + iasis (presence) = of a stone in the pancreas
Question: Which term means "gland condition"?Answer: Adenosis
Question: Identify the pronunciation of the term glycolysis.Answer: glai-KAW-lih-sis
Question: The BS and FBS both have to do with:Answer: sugar
Question: medical term means "inflammation of the thyroid"?Answer:
Question: Translate the medical term as literally as possible.Answer: "Gland cancer tumor," cancerous of a gland
Question: Which term means "incision into the thyroid"?Answer:
Question: Choose the translation of the root hemat/o.Answer: blood
Question: a medical term that means "spleen pain."Answer:
Question: Choose the correct translation of the -penia.Answer: deficiency
Question: Which root is used to to a vein?Answer: ven/o
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term hematopoiesis?Answer: hemato (blood) + poiesis (formation) = formation of blood
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term leukocytosis?Answer: leuko (white) + cyt (cell) + osis (condition) = "white cell condition" : abnormal increase in the number of white cells
Question: Build a term that means "surgical removal of the thymus."Answer:
Question: An used to measure blood pressure is called a(n):Answer: .
Question: What are the three main types of in the blood?Answer: Erythrocytes, leukocytes, and
Question: A process in which a certain type of white blood cells (or "eats") foreign microorganisms or cell debris is called:Answer: .
Question: the term hepatosplenomegaly as literally as possible.Answer: Liver spleen
Question: Which word part to the blood’s ability to form clots?Answer: /o
Question: What is the abbreviation for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura?Answer: TTP
Question: A specialist in drawing blood is a:Answer: phlebotomist
Question: Build a medical term that means "white and refers to white blood cells.Answer: Leukocyte
Question: Which term comes from the "to pour out," and refers to a large bruise?Answer:
Question: Choose the correct translation of the root /o.Answer: vein
Question: Build a medical term that means "inflammation of a ."Answer: tonsillitis
Question: the term tonsillectomy.Answer: Surgical of a tonsil
Question: Identify the correct pronunciation of the term lymphangitis.Answer: LIM-fan-JAI-tis
Question: Translate the term .Answer: removal of a lymph node
Question: Build a medical term that means of a lymph gland (node)."Answer:
Question: Build a medical term that means "blood tumor" and refers to a mass of within an organ, cavity, or tissue.Answer:
Question: What is the definition for the abbreviation BMT?Answer: Bone transplant
Question: the term hemorrhage.Answer: blood loss
Question: term describes a hardening of an artery due to build-up of fatty plaque?Answer:
Question: statement is true about the root sept/o?Answer: It stands for "septum," comes from a Latin word meaning "partition or dividing structure," and can to any wall dividing two cavities.
Question: Which medical term means "the reconstruction of a vessel"?Answer: angioplasty
Question: Which medical term means "an incision into the muscle"?Answer: Cardiomyotomy
Question: Identify and the root in the medical term venospasm.Answer: veno -
Question: the medical term aneurysmectomy.Answer: Surgical removal of a bulge in a blood
Question: is NOT a root used to refer to vessels?Answer: All of refer to vessels. 1-angi/o 2-vas/o 3-vascul/o 4-arteri/o
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: vein
Question: The vena cava is:Answer: a large-diameter vein that gathers blood from the portion of the body and returns it to the heart.
Question: Which term means a loss of blood?Answer: Hemorrhage
Question: The exerted by blood on the wall of blood vessels is:Answer: All of these. 1-called pressure 2-abbreviated BP. 3-determined by both diastolic pressure, pressure exerted on blood vessels when the heart is relaxed, and systolic pressure, pressure exerted on blood vessels when the heart is contracted.
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term pericardiocentesis?Answer: peri (around) + cardio (heart) + (puncture) = puncture of the tissue around the heart
Question: Translate the medical term phlebotomy as literally as .Answer: Vein incision procedure" - the technical term for blood
Question: Identify and define the root in the term arteriosclerosis.Answer: - artery
Question: Identify the correct definition for .Answer: Profuse
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: fatty
Question: What is the definition for ASD?Answer: A flaw in the that divides the two upper chambers of the heart
Question: Translate the term embolectomy.Answer: Surgical of a mass of matter present in the blood
Question: Which medical term "inflammation of the blood vessels"?Answer: Vasculitis
Question: Translate the medical term cardiotonic as as possible.Answer: "Heart tone ; a drug that increases the strength of heart contractions
Question: Which root literally means "crown," and refers to the way the blood vessels that supply the heart descend and support the like a crown?Answer: coron/o
Question: What is the pronunciation of the medical term venogram?Answer: VEE-noh-gram
Question: Translate the medical term vasospasm as literally as .Answer: Involuntary of a blood vessel
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term ?Answer: angio (vessel) + graph (writing) + y (procedure) = to describe the blood vessels
Question: What does the abbreviation HTN for?Answer: Hypertension
Question: Which is the correct translation and for the abbreviation CT?Answer: Computed tomography - an imaging procedure using a computer to
Question: the term pleuralgia as literally as possible.Answer: pleura
Question: Build a medical term that "chest pain."Answer: Thoracalgia
Question: Translate the term .Answer: Air and in the chest
Question: Which is the breakdown and translation of the term rhinorrhagia?Answer: rhino (nose) + rrhagia (excessive bleeding) = excessive from the nose (another term for nosebleed)
Question: Which is the breakdown and translation of the term tracheostomy?Answer: tracheo (windpipe) + stomy (creation of an ) = creation of an opening in the windpipe
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term ?Answer: em (in) + py (pus) + ema (condition) = pus the chest
Question: OSA :Answer: a condition where the patient ceases to breathe asleep.
Question: Build a medical term that "blood in the chest."Answer:
Question: Identify the correct translation for the root /o.Answer:
Question: What is the term used to describe hoarseness and means "bad voice condition"?Answer: Dysphonia
Question: Identify the correct translation for the root /o.Answer: Subdivision of the bronchial
Question: term refers to the main branches from the trachea into each lung?Answer: /o
Question: Build a term that means "slow breathing."Answer:
Question: the term thoracentesis as literally as possible.Answer: Chest
Question: Build a medical term that "incision into the windpipe."Answer: Tracheotomy
Question: the correct translation for the root nas/o.Answer:
Question: Translate the term rhinitis as as possible.Answer: inflammation
Question: a medical term that means "inflammation in the lung."Answer:
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term ?Answer: laryng (larynx) + ectomy (removal) = removal of the
Question: Build a medical term that "creation of an opening in the chest."Answer: Thoracostomy
Question: Identify the translation for the root or/o.Answer: mouth
Question: the correct translation for the root pneumat/o.Answer: lungs or
Question: terms means "the voice box"?Answer: /o
Question: the correct translation for the root capn/o.Answer: Carbon
Question: the root proct/o.Answer: anus and
Question: and define the root in the term gingivectomy.Answer: - gums
Question: Identify the pronunciation for the medical term cholecystogram.Answer: KOH-lay-SIS-toh-gram
Question: Translate the term eupepsia as literally as possible.Answer: 'Good digestion ; normal digestion
Question: Translate the term abdominocentesis as literally as possible.Answer: puncture
Question: What is the correct of the abbreviation N&V?Answer: Nausea and
Question: Answer: Gastroesophageal Disease
Question: Answer: by Mouth
Question: Answer: Gastrointestional
Question: Answer: Peptic Ulcer
Question: Which medical term "surgical fixation of the liver"?Answer:
Question: Which of the following roots is part of the gastrointestinal tract?Answer: /o
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer:
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer:
Question: Which medical term means "gallbladder ?Answer: Cholecystalgia
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: mouth
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: The portion of the large intestine at the end before the
Question: Which term means "pain in the intestines"?Answer:
Question: The left region of the abdomen is in which quadrant of the abdomen?Answer:
Question: What term refers to an abnormal opening between the rectum and the exterior perianal skin?Answer: anal
Question: of the following statements is true about the abbreviation NPO?Answer: It stands for nihil per os and "nothing by mouth."
Question: Colonoscopy confirm ulcerative colitis. 1yr ago got toxic megacolon led 2 surg inter. well until 3mnth ago, report fatigue, gen pruritis, pain RUQ. doc referred 4 evaluation. report history of steatorrhea,denies bright red blood. Which NOT true?Answer: The has experienced some hematemesis.
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term hepatomalacia?Answer: hepato (liver) + malacia (softening) = of the liver
Question: the root an/o.Answer: The sphincter or muscle at the end of the intestines that for the passage of feces
Question: term describes the crushing of gallstones?Answer:
Question: Why does a urologist deal with both tract problems and male genital problems?Answer: The male reproductive system structures with the urinary system.
Question: Build a medical term that "downward displacement of the bladder."Answer: Cystoptosis
Question: a medical term that means "painful urination."Answer: Dysuria
Question: is a root that refers to sperm?Answer: sperm/i
Question: Which is the correct and translation of the medical term cystorrhexis?Answer: cysto (bladder) + (rupture) = rupture of the bladder
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: bladder
Question: Translate the medical term as literally as possible.Answer: Hernia of the and urethra (long tube that connects bladder to outside world)
Question: Which root is used to to the bladder?Answer: cyst/o
Question: Identify and define the root in the term uremia.Answer: ur -
Question: Build a medical term that "inflammation of the prostate and bladder."Answer: Prostatocystitis
Question: Translate the medical term as literally as possible.Answer: "Kidney over nourishment - overdevelopment of the kidney
Question: What is the breakdown and translation of the abbreviation IVP?Answer: intra (inside) + ven (vein) + ous (pertaining to) + pyelo (renal pelvis) + gram (record) = image of the urinary system through the injection of a contrast dye into the
Question: Which root is used to refer to the tubes that carry the urine from the kidneys to the ?Answer: /o
Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the BPH?Answer: It can both men and women.
Question: the root ren/o.Answer:
Question: What is the function of the vas ?Answer: sperm from the testicles
Question: medical term means "involuntary urination"?Answer: Enuresis
Question: Identify and define the root in the term heminephrectomy.Answer: kidney
Question: What is the abbreviation used by professionals to refer to the kidneys, ureters, and bladder? Answer:
Question: Which of the following statements is NOT true about the root /o?Answer: It is the basic unit of the kidney.
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer:
Question: a medical term that means "a hardening of the blood vessels within the kidney that filter the blood."Answer: Glomerulosclerosis
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term nephropexy?Answer: nephro (kidney) + pexy (fixation) = surgical of a kidney
Question: Translate the medical term anorchidism as as possible.Answer: No testicle
Question: and define the root in the medical term orchidotomy.Answer: - testicle
Question: Identify and define the in the medical term pseudocyesis.Answer: - pregnancy
Question: What is the definition for the abbreviation IVF?Answer: The fertilization of an egg done in a test
Question: medical term means "procedure for examining the vagina"?Answer: Colposcopy
Question: The teratogenic and teratology both deal with:Answer: birth
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: fallopian
Question: The gyn/o and gynec/o both mean:Answer: woman
Question: Identify and define the root in the medical term .Answer: -ovary
Question: What is the correct pronunciation for the term salpingitis?Answer: SAL-pin-JAI-tis
Question: Which is the breakdown of the medical term hysterosalpingectomy into its component parts?Answer: /salping/ec/tomy
Question: Identify the correct definition for the medical term .Answer: Branch of medicine dealing with pregnancy, labor, and of newborns
Question: The mast/o and mamm/o both mean:Answer:
Question: the root lact/o.Answer:
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and of the medical term colpopexy?Answer: colpo (vagina) + pexy (fixation) = fixation of the vagina
Question: The surgical removal of a tumor in the (usually the muscle of the uterine wall) is called a(n):Answer: myomectomy.
Question: Which root means "to be born" and on the baby?Answer: nat/o
Question: Which root comes from a Latin word that means "offspring" and in current medical usage refers to an unborn child the eighth week of pregnancy?Answer: fet/o
Question: Which root is used for the opening between the and the vagina?Answer: /o
Question: Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the term mammoplasty?Answer: mammo (breast) + plasty (reconstruction) = surgical reconstruction of a
Question: What is a hernia or prolapse of the into the vagina?Answer: Urethrocele
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer: ovary
Question: Which root means "give birth" and focuses on the ?Answer: part/o
Question: the root colp/o.Answer:
Question: Translate the root /o.Answer:
Question: The metr/o and hyster/o both mean:Answer: uterus
Question: the medical term lactogenic as literally as possible.Answer: to milk creation" - causing the formation of milk
 
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