Medical Language, 4e (Turley)
Chapter 6 Hematology and Immunology — Blood and the Lymphatic System
6.1 Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Pan/cyto/-penia could be found in a patient with ________.
A) septicemia
B) lymphadenopathy
C) failure of the bone marrow to produce stem cells
D) iron-deficiency anemia
2) Bence Jones protein is found in the urine of a patient with ________.
A) infectious mononucleosis
B) multiple myeloma
C) folic acid—deficiency anemia
D) AIDS
3) A patient with lymphoma or leukemia would receive which cancer treatment?
A) bone marrow transplantation
B) blood transfusion
C) prothrombin time
D) excisional biopsy
4) To keep the red blood cell count from decreasing in a patient receiving a chemotherapy drug,
the physician would prescribe a/an ________ drug to stimulate the bone marrow to make
erythrocytes.
A) vitamin B12
B) erythropoietin
C) immunosuppressant
D) anticoagulant
5) Which is a bleeding disease, NOT related to genetics, in which blood clots use up platelets
and fibrinogen so much that there is spontaneous bleeding from various places in the body?
A) hemophilia A
B) acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
C) disseminated intravascular coagulation
D) mononucleosis
6) The heterophil antibody test can aid in the diagnosis of ________.
A) infectious mononucleosis
B) HIV infection
C) septicemia
D) hemolysis