Chapter one - Terminology

Question 1

Cell

Answer 1

-Cyte or cyt-

Question 2

Removal of a structure

Answer 2

-ectomy

Question 3

Blood

Answer 3

-emia or hemo-

Question 4

Breasts

Answer 4

-mastia

Question 5

Measurement

Answer 5

-metric

Question 6

State, usually diseased

Answer 6

-osis

Question 7

Fixation or a structure

Answer 7

-pexy

Question 8

Molding, shaping, reconstruction

Answer 8

-plasty

Question 9

Breath, respiration

Answer 9

-pnea

Question 10

Flowing, flow

Answer 10

-rrhea

Question 11

Using an instrument to view

Answer 11

-scopy

Question 12

Of or relating to urine

Answer 12

-turia

Question 13

Without

Answer 13

a- or an-

Question 14

Up/against/re- (not to be confused with a-/an- or with the linking vowel -a-)

Answer 14

ana-

Question 15

Masculine

Answer 15

andro-

Question 16

Pain or pressure in the chest

Answer 16

angina

Question 17

Human, mankind (both men/women)

Answer 17

anthropo-

Question 18

Head

Answer 18

cephal-

Question 19

Body

Answer 19

corpus

Question 20

Of or related to the skin

Answer 20

cutaneous

Question 21

Through

Answer 21

dia-

Question 22

Bad or difficult

Answer 22

dys-

Question 23

Upon

Answer 23

epi-

Question 24

Out/outside or exterior

Answer 24

eco- (-ec-)

Question 25

Feminine, female

Answer 25

gyn- or gyno-

Question 26

Higher than normal, excessive

Answer 26

hyper-

Question 27

Lower than normal, deficient

Answer 27

hypo-

Question 28

White

Answer 28

Leuko- or leuk-

Question 29

Stone, stone-like, often calcification

Answer 29

litho-

Question 30

Straight or ordered, aligned

Answer 30

ortho-

Question 31

Near or around

Answer 31

peri-

Question 32

Of our related to the nose

Answer 32

rhin- or rhino-

Question 33

Chest

Answer 33

thorax

Question 34

Little or few

Answer 34

oligo-

Question 35

Burst open

Answer 35

-lytic

Question 36

Intestines (small intestines)

Answer 36

-entero-

Question 37

Which of the following is a term for the accumulation of blood in a well circumscribed region?

Answer 37

Hematoma

Question 38

What should you do if a patient walks out of a hospital against medical advice refusing to sign discharge papers?

Answer 38

Notate the refusal in the patient’s file.

Question 39

B.U.N

Answer 39

Blood Urea Nitrogen

Question 40

SOB

Answer 40

Shortness of Breath

Question 41

GTT

Answer 41

Glucose Tolerance Test