Chapter 1 Practice Quiz
1. Which term is spelled correctly?
A) Osteoarthroitis
C) Ostearthoitis
B) Osteoarthritis
D) ostearthritis
2. The prefix in intraarticular means:
A) Within
C) beside
B) Without
D) under
3. The prefix in depolarization means:
A) Before
C) not
B) Again
D) with
4. The prefix in metastasis means:
A) stop
C) beyond
B) stand
D) middle
5. The suffix in polycythemia means:
A) cell
B) blood
C) many
D) large
6. The prefix in infraumbilical means:
A) outside
B) below
C) above
D) around
7. The prefix in diaphysis means:
A) across
B) separate
C) from
D) with
8. The prefix in aplastic means:
A) away from
B) near
C) with
D) without
9. The prefix in antitoxic means:
A) pertaining to
B) toward
C) against
D) away from
10. The prefix in tachycardia means:
A) above
B) deficient
C) slow
D) fast
11. Suprarenal refers to what area of the kidney?
A) behind
B) against
C) above
D) below
12. The prefix in polymorphic pertains to:
A) new
B) many
C) deficient
D) large
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E) without
13. What does the suffix in eumorphism mean?
A) condition of
B) pertaining to
C) attraction for
D) presence of
14. All of the following mean “pertaining to” except:
A) -ac
B) -ous
C) -tic
D) -ule
15. All of the following are diagnostic suffixes except:
A) -it is
B) -rrhexis
C) -penia
D) -emia
16. All of the following combining forms mean “uterus” except:
A) urin/o
B) hyster/o
C) metr/o
D) uter/o
17. Which of the following prefixes does not show time?
A) bradyB) preC) reD) tri18. The suffix in gouty means:
A) small
B) formation
C) pertaining to
D) condition of
19. Which suffix describes something small?
A) -ist
B) -icle
C) -ous
D) -eal
20. The suffix in osteomalacia means:
A) enlargement
B) tumor
C) softening
D) formation
21. Symptomatic suffixes:
A) describe evidence of illness
B) have general application
C) provide the name of a medical condition D) describe a surgical treatment
22. Which of the following suffixes means pain?
A) -algia
B) -dynia
C) A and B
D) None of the above
23. Which of the following combining forms refers to the nose?
A) nos/o
B) nas/o
C) rhin/o
D) B and C
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24. All of the following combining forms describe color except:
A) cyan/o
B) crin/o
C) leuk/o
D) erythr/o
25. Which of the following medical terms is operative (surgical)?
A) gastropexy
B) hemopoiesis
C) nephroptosis
D) appendicitis
26. The root in macrocyte means:
A) small
B) head
C) cell
D) blue
27. Necrosis refers to a condition of:
A) new
B) black
C) death
D) fat
28. Melan/o is a combining form meaning:
A) black
B) white
C) blue
D) death
29. Dysphagia refers to a condition of:
A) painful speech
B) difficulty eating or swallowing
C) faulty formation
D) exaggerated fear
30. Colostomy describes a/an:
A) creation of an opening in the colon
C) excision of the colon
B) incision in the colon
D) binding of the colon
31. The term describing removal of half the stomach is:
A) semigastrotomy
B) hemigastrectomy
C) hemigastrotomy
D) semigastrostomy
32. Angiectasis refers to:
A) dilation of a vessel
C) excision of a gland
B) excision of a vessel
D) breakdown of blood
33. The plural of macula is:
A) maculaes
B) maculi
C) maculae
D) maculate
34. The plural of thrombus is:
A) thrombuses
B) thrombi
C) thrombae
D) thrombata
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35. Which of the following terms is correctly spelled?
A) gastroectomy
B) paraenteral
C) vasculitis
D) gastresophageal
36. Most of the terms related to diagnosis and surgery have __________ origin.
37. Endo__________: the process of examining within
38. The suffix __________ means surgical repair or reconstruction.
39. Hepat/o is a combining form that means __________.
40. The root in the word pericarditis is __________.
41. A __________ is placed at the beginning of a term and is used to further modify the
root.
42. A __________ is the foundation or subject of a word.
43. A __________ is the word ending that modifies and gives essential meaning to the root.
44. The __________ is placed over vowels that have a short sound.
45. The __________ is placed over vowels that have a long sound.
46. The plural of pneumothorax is __________.
47. In the term cephalic, the “c” has a/an __________ sound.
48. The suffix in gastrostomy means creation of a/an __________.
49. The prefix __________ means few or deficient.
50. The term cardiopulmonary contains __________ roots.
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