Test Bank for Medical Terminology Simplified A Programmed

Test Bank for Medical Terminology Simplified A Programmed Learning Approach by Body System, 6e Barbara Gylys, Regina Masters (All Chapters Answers at the end of each Chapter)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Programmed Learning and Medical Word Building

Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Which suffix means decrease, deficiency?

• -rrhea
• -rrhage
• -rrhexis
• -penia
• -iasis

____ 2. What is the meaning of gastr/o?

• mouth
• intestine
• stomach
• liver
• bladder

____ 3. To build a medical word, use a combining form (CF) to link a suffix that begins with a(n):

• “a.”
• “o.”
• vowel.
• consonant.
• “e.”

____ 4. Which word element is a word root?

• hepat-
• hepato-
• hepatom-
• -megaly
• hepatomegaly

____ 5. A CF is a word root plus a:

• prefix.
• vowel.
• suffix.
• word root.
• consonant.

____ 6. Which word element is an adjective suffix?

• -oma 1 / 4

• -penia
• -itis
• -ic
• -ia

____ 7. Which element is always located at the beginning of a medical word?

• word root
• suffix
• combining vowel
• prefix
• combining form

____ 8. What does the word root usually indicate?

• position
• number
• condition
• body part
• procedure

____ 9. What does the prefix in post-mortem mean?

• before
• after
• death
• life
• beyond

____ 10. Arthr/o/centesis is a surgical puncture of a joint. In this word, arthr/o is a:

• prefix.
• suffix.
• word root.
• combining vowel.
• combining form.

____ 11. A therm/o/meter is an instrument for measuring temperature. In this word, -meter is a(n):

• adjective.
• verb.
• combining form.
• compound word.
• suffix.

____ 12. Which word is an example of a combining vowel used to link one root to another root?

• gastr/itis
• gastr/o/dynia
• gastr/o/esophag/itis
• gastr/o/megaly
• gastr/oma

____ 13. Which word is built correctly?

• my/algia 2 / 4

• nephr/dynia
• aden/o/oid
• gastr/plasty
• py/rrhea

____ 14. The suffix -itis means:

• pain.
• blood.
• excision.
• rupture.
• inflammation.

____ 15. Which word contains a prefix?

• hyperthermia
• gastric
• thermometer
• nephritis
• cardiac

____ 16. The i in the term pelv/i/metry is called a:

• word root.
• combining form.
• suffix.
• combining vowel.
• consonant.

____ 17. Vowels marked with a macron (-) indicate a:

• short sound.
• stress.
• silent letter.
• long sound.
• diphthong.

____ 18. Oste/o/chondr/itis is an example of a:

• suffix that begins with a consonant.
• simple word.
• compound word.
• medical word containing a prefix.
• word with only one word element.

____ 19. The oe in roentgen is pronounced:

• e.
• oy.
• u.
• o.
• a.

____ 20. In medical terms, ch (as in cholera) is pronounced:

• “chal.” 3 / 4

• “cha.”
• “k.”
• “aitch.”
• “cee.”

____ 21. To make words ending in y plural:

• retain the y and add es.
• drop the y and add es.
• drop the y and add i.
• retain the y and add s.
• drop the y and add ies.

____ 22. The plural form of diagnosis is:

• diagnose.
• diagnostic.
• diagnosia.
• diagnoses.
• diagnosticians.

____ 23. What does the suffix -ior mean?

• small
• specialist
• condition
• pertaining to
• treatment

____ 24. What is the plural form of appendix?

• appendamata
• appendises
• appendices
• appendae
• appendia

____ 25. What is the adjective form of axilla?

• axillar
• axillary
• axilliac
• axillae
• axillic

____ 26. What is the plural form of radius?

• radii
• radium
• radiae
• radious
• radial

____ 27. What is the plural form of nucleus?

• nuclear
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