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NURS1000 MEDICAL TERMSCHAPTERS 1-9 EXAM LATEST
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vowel - Answer When connecting a word root and a suffix, a combining vowel is used if
the suffix does not begin with a
eponym - Answer A medical terms derived from the names of a person or place are
called
pallative - Answer providing relief but not cure
xanthosis - Answer abnormal condition of yellow
prognosis - Answer to foretell the course of a disease
karyoplasm - Answer substance of a nucleus
viscera - Answer internal organs
necrosis - Answer abnormal cell death
diagnosis - Answer state of complete knowledge
remission - Answer improvement or absence of signs of disease
Apoptosis - Answer programmed normal cell death
iatrogenic - Answer produced by a physician
XRT - Answer radiation therapy
neoplasm - Answer new growth, substance, formation
TRUE - Answer A combining vowel is used to ease pronunciation
prefix - Answer The word part that is attached to the beginning of a word root to modify
its meaning is called the
oste/o/pathy - Answer disease of the bone
sub/hepat/ic - Answer pertaining to under the liver
combining vowel - Answer usually an "o"
,Acronyms - Answer terms formed from the first letters of words in a phrase
Analyzing - Answer dividing medical terms into word parts
hepat/itis - Answer inflammation of the liver
terms built from word parts - Answer can be translated literally to find their meaning
arthr/itis - Answer inflammation of a joint
Ganglia - Answer What is the plural form for a cluster of ganglion?
erythr/o/cyt/osis - Answer The correct way to analyze the term erythrocytosis is(must
include slashes to receive credit)
hypoplasia - Answer The incomplete development of a body organ for example a Kidney
can be described by the medical term
TRUE - Answer A patient with Cardiomegaly has an enlarged heart
Distal - Answer In relationship to the hip, the foot is pertaining to away from the point of
attachment of a body part or
high fowler - Answer What position is a patient in on a stretcher in which the head of the
stretcher is in a 90 degree angle?
The lateral side of the wrist - Answer Where would the nurse palpate a radial pulse?
Transverse - Answer The provider needs a CT scan of a patient brain that will be in
cross section views from superior to inferior. What type of image is required for this CT
scan?
Medial - Answer pertaining to the middle
bi - Answer two
lat - Answer lateral
PA - Answer posteroanterior
sagittal plane - Answer Vertical plane passing through the body from front to back,
dividing the body into right and left sides (any plane parallel to the midsagittal plane)
ventral - Answer Pertaining to the belly
proximal - Answer Pertaining to near
Sims position - Answer Lying on left side with right knee drawn up with left arm drawn
behind, parallel to the back
distal - Answer pertaining to away
, -ior - Answer pertaining to
caud/o - Answer Tail (downward)
AP - Answer Anteroposterior
back - Answer In the term poster/o/later/al what does the prefix mean?
orthopnea - Answer A patient sitting in a chair or sitting up right in bed supported by
pillows behind the head and chest is said to be in the (blank) position
later/o - Answer What is the root word meaning to a side? ( answer must be written with
slash and combining vowel for credit)
TRUE - Answer Liver pain is likely to be in the RUQ
TRUE - Answer A patient should be placed in the trendelenburg position which is head
lower than the feet to treat an air embolism caused by an uncapped central line.
TRUE - Answer Epidemiological studies reveal that a minute microorganism
characterized by a lack of independent metabolism or virus is responsible for
transmitting disease.
bilateral - Answer A patient having both tonsils removed would be scheduled for a
(blank) tonsillectomy
xeroderma - Answer the term for dry skin is
hypogastric - Answer The patient reports pain inferior to the umbilical region or in the
(blank) region
necrosis - Answer tissue death
cutane/o - Answer skin
dermatitis - Answer inflammation of skin
paronychia - Answer disease state around the nail
aut/o - Answer self
dermatoplasty - Answer surgical repair of the skin
diaphoresis - Answer profuse sweating
wheal - Answer hive
sub- - Answer under
-coccus - Answer berry-shaped
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