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Health Quiz Terms
Unit 1 Quiz (All Terms from different systems)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arthr/o | joint |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| my/o | muscle |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| ambul/o | to walkk |
| albin/o | white |
| leuk/o | white blood cell |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| -pathy | disease; condition |
| erythr/o | skin redness |
| tachy- | fast |
| brady- | slow |
| thromb/o | blood clot |
| -itis | inflammation |
| laryng/o | larynx |
| cyan/o | blue |
| -pepsia | digestion |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| natr/o | sodium |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| -dipsia | thirst |
| tympan/o | eardrum |
| -esthesia | sensation |
| -rrhagia | hard flow, excessive or abnormal amount of flow from organ or part |
| psych/o | mind |
| salping/o | fallopian tube |
| -lysis | breakdown |
| Medical professionals who work with respiratory system | Pulmonologist, Otolaryngologist, Thoracic Surgeon, etc. |
| Common cardiac diseases | Arrythmia, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, etc. |
| Skeletal System Function: | Provides a structure, framework, and safeguards the internal organs within the body. |
| Muscular System Function: | Helps with movement, support, and muscular contractions. |
| Integumentary System Function: | Protects the body from external forces, such as diseases, harm, and intense sunlight. Helps to regulate temperature and feel skin sensations. |
| Cardiovascular System Function: | Pumps blood throughout the body, distributes oxygen through circulation, transports waste from the body. |
| Immune/Lymphatic System Function: | Removes fluid that leaks out of our blood vessels, produces immune cells to fight foreign invaders, balancing fluids, and absorbing fat-soluble nutrients. |
| Respiratory System Function: | Takes in oxygen and helps distribute it through the body; expels viruses and bacteria by sneezing or coughing; removes waste and gases. |
| Digestive System Function: | Digests and breaks down food into enzymes for the body. |
| Urinary System Function: | Removes waste from your blood; controls the level of chemicals and electrolytes in your body; regulates blood volume and pressure |
| Endocrine System Function: | Growth of reproduction system, maintains equilibrium in the blood sugar and metabolism, provides support in the development of the brain and nervous system. |
| Nervous System Function: | Controls the body’s functions; send signals when the integumentary system feeling a sensation or the body moves. |
| Special Senses System Function: | Gathers sensory information; the body reactiveness and send nerve signals to the brain; Processes general information. |
| Reproductive (female) System Function: | Produces androgens such as testosterone; promotes spermatogenesis that will transport to female reproductive system. |
| Reproductive (male) System Function: | Producing gametes (eggs or ovum.); Maintaining fertilized eggs; Maturing fetuses for delivery. |