1. Which of the following is NOT one of the word parts in a medical term?
a. Combining vowel
b. Word root
c. Combining form
d. Suffix Answer: c
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the common types of medical terms?
a. Latin words
b. French words
c. modern English words...
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the word parts in a medical term?
a. Combining vowel
b. Word root
c. Combining form
d. Suffix
Answer: c
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the common types of medical terms?
a. Latin words
b. French words
c. modern English words
d. Greek words
Answer: b
3. Which of the following answers is an example of an eponym?
a. Alzheimer disease
b. cardiology
c. irritable bowel syndrome
d. magnetic resonance imaging
Answer: a
4. Which medical terminology word part provides the essential meaning of the word?
, a. combining vowel
b. word root
c. suffix
d. prefix
Answer: b
5. Which of the following is NOT information frequently referred to by word roots?
a. body structure
b. organ
c. system
d. diseases
Answer: d
6. Which of the following is NOT the type of information provided by a prefix?
a. procedure
b. position
c. number
d. time
Answer: a
7. Which of the following statements regarding prefixes is NOT true?
a. Prefixes indicate surgical procedures.
b. Prefixes are found at the beginning of terms.
, c. Many medical terms do not have a prefix.
d. A hyphen is placed at the end of a prefix when it is written by itself.
Answer: a
8. Which of the following is the type of information provided by a suffix?
a. diagnostic procedure
b. positions
c. numbers
d. times
Answer: a
9. Which of the following statements regarding suffixes is NOT true?
a. A hyphen is placed at the front of a suffix when it is written by itself.
b. A suffix gives information such as conditions or diseases.
c. Not all medical terms contain a suffix.
d. Suffixes are placed at the end of a medical term.
Answer: c
10. In which situation is a combining vowel never used?
a. between two word roots
b. between a word root and a suffix when the suffix begins with a consonant
c. between a prefix and a word root
d. a combining vowel is needed in all the above situations
, Answer: c
11. Which of the following statements regarding combining vowels is true?
a. A combining vowel is used between a prefix and a word root.
b. A combining vowel is used to make a prefix more pronounceable.
c. A combining vowel is placed between two word roots.
d. A combining vowel is placed between a word root and a suffix if the suffix begins
with a vowel.
Answer: c
12. When reading an unfamiliar medical term, the first step in analyzing the term is to:
a. put the meaning of word parts together
b. sound the word out loud
c. define each word part
d. divide the term into its word parts
Answer: d
13. In making a term that ends in -um plural, you should:
a. keep the -um and add an -a
b. drop the -um and add an -a
c. drop the -um and add -ta
d. drop the -um and add a -
y Answer: b
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