Ch 4 Quiz

Question 1

T/F: A disease is called acute when it starts abruptly and has a short lived duration.

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

T/F: Anatomy refers to the study of the nature of living things.

Answer 2

FALSE

Question 3

A factured bone is a common __________ injury

Answer 3

Trauma

Question 4

The __________ plane divides the body into front and back portions

Answer 4

Coronal

Question 5

T/F: Vital signs and other results from a patient’s physical ecam are considered part of the medical records’ assesment.

Answer 5

FALSE- this is the objective

Question 6

T/F: Dizziness as reported by the patient is considered a sign.

Answer 6

FALSE

Question 7

PET scan reveals area of the body with unusually high:

Answer 7

Metabolic rate

Question 8

Information obtained from a patient’s physical exam is classified as a _________

Answer 8

Sign

Question 9

What category of a patient’s medical chart does the diagnostic imagining fall?

Answer 9

Plan

Question 10

Psoriasis is a skin condition, which lasts a lifetime. Thus, psoriasis is classified as ________

Answer 10

Chronic

Question 11

What does the suffix -gnosis mean?

Answer 11

Knowledge

Question 12

T/F: another name for ultrasound imaging is MRI

Answer 12

FALSE

Question 13

Pain and pressure are usually classified as _________ because they are described by the patient

Answer 13

Symptoms

Question 14

___________ is the component of the medical record obtained from pt’s description of their symptoms

Answer 14

Subjective

Question 15

T/F: Rx is considered part of the plan for a pt med record

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

Fever is a common __________ of ______________ disease

Answer 16

Sign; infectious

Question 17

Suffix means process of veiwing

Answer 17

-scopy

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT an acronym for diagnostic imaging tools?
CAT
MRI
UIS
PET

Answer 18

UIS

Question 19

Symptoms are _____ by _________. Signs are _______ by ___________.

Answer 19

Decscribed, patients, measured, medical personnel

Question 20

The head is __________ to the neck

Answer 20

Superior

Question 21

A pain ranking of 8 out of 10 is classified as

Answer 21

Subjective symptom

Question 22

When bodily fuctions fail to maintain homeostasis, a condition of instability, known as _____, results.

Answer 22

Disease

Question 23

The ___________ plane divids the body into front and back portions

Answer 23

Coronal

Question 24

A physician who specialized in the study of disease

Answer 24

Pathologist

Question 25

Pathology means

Answer 25

Study of disease

Question 26

Pain and pressure are usually classified as symptoms because they are

Answer 26

Described by the patient

Question 27

Simplest to most complex building blocks

Answer 27

Cell > tissue > organs > systems

Question 28

The most basic form of life in the body is the

Answer 28

Cell

Question 29

Common synonym of CAT scan

Answer 29

CT

Question 30

Rank smallest to largest of subcellular parts

Answer 30

Atom > molecules > organelles