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Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology
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Name ________________________________________ Period _______
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What happens in a colonoscopy?
a. visualization of the colon
b. removal of the colon
c. hemorrhaging of the colon
d. cutting into the colon
2.
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When a person is septic, it is said they are ...
a. feeling alone and walled off b. diagnosed with 7 problems
c. out of breath
d. full of infection
3.
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What treatment uses heat?
a. cryotherapy
c. chemotherapy
b. diathermy
d. endothermy
4.
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Which eye is indicated by ocular sinister?
a.
right
b. left
5.
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What term describes the removal of the spleen?
a. splenotomy
b. splenostomy
c. splenectomy
d. splenomegaly
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What would be used to cut a section of skin needed for a graft?
a. dermatome
b. dermatoscope
c. dermatotripsy
d. dermatotrist
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What term describes grape-like clusters of round bacteria?
a. streptococci
b. staphylococci
c. streptobacilli
d. staphylobacilli
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What is vomiting associated with excessive saliva?
a. sialogenous
b. sialogram c. sialolith
d. sialemesis
9.
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What is rapid or fast eating?
a. tachypnea
c. tachyphagia
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b. tachycardia
d. tachyphylaxis
What is inflammation of the vertebrae?
a. spondylitis
b. synovitis
c. sigmoiditis
d. sinusitis
What is the development of sperm?
a. spermatogenesis
b. spermatocide
c. spermatopathia
d. spermatozoon
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What term refers to the chest and ribs?
a. sternoclavicular
b. sternocleidomastoid
c. sternohyoideus
d. sternocostal
13.
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What term is a synonym for oral?
a. somat/o
b. stomat/o
c. thyr/o
d. thym/o
14.
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What term refers to the narrowing of a blood vessel?
a. angiostenosis
b. tracheostomy
c. sigmoidoscopy
d. thoracotomy
15.
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Orchid/o is a synonym of ...
a. testes
b. tendons
c. chest
d. breast
16.
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Which infection can cause a continuous contraction of skeletal
muscles?
a. spirilla
b. tetanus c. streptococcus
d. trichomonas
17.
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Which term refers to an instrument that measures and records the
volume of each breath?
a. spirometer
b. stethoscope
18.
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What procedure applied heat to the eye to flatten the cornea?
a. thermoluminescence
b. thermophilic
c. thermostasis
d. thermokeratoplasty
19.
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What is a surgical opening into the chest cavity?
a. thoracentesis
b. thoracostomy
c. thoracotomy
d. thoracoscopy
20.
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What is a deficiency of platelets (or blood clotting cells)?
a. thrombocytopenia
b. thrombocytopathy
c. thrombogenesis
d. thrombolysis
21.
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Another term for the disorder Graves’ Disease where the there is a
literal condition of a poisoned thyroid gland.
a. thyrotropin
b. thyromegaly
c. thyrotoxicosis
d. thyrotrophic
22.
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What refers to the area above the spine?
a. supraspinal
b. subspinal
c. suprapubic
d. subscapularis
23.
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Inflammation of the brain cause by heavy metal poisoning.
a. toxic hemoglobinuria
b. toxic goiter
c. toxic encephalitis
d. toxic erythema
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25.
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The shin bone.
a. tibia
b. thorax
c. synovium
d. sternum
What is a synonym for podalgia?
a. tenodesis b. tensiometer
c. tarsorrhaphy
d. tarsalgia
Create a term from the definition. Terms from previous pages can be used.
1.
Difficult labor
2.
Instrument to measure pressure (within the eye) __________________________
3.
Removal of the tonsils
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4.
Narrowing of the windpipe
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5.
Layers of scale-like (cells)
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6.
Through the skin
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7.
Sleep walking
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8.
Treatment of physical (body) disorders ________________________________
9.
Under the tongue
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10.
Destruction of stones by crushing
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11.
Flow of oil or grease
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12.
Inspection of the rectum and sigmoid colon ______________________________
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