AAMI COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
SCIENCE 167 QUESTIONS 2026
FINAL PAPER PRACTICE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS ACCURATE
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◉ What is albumin?
Answer: A protein found in blood plasma.
◉ What is the alimentary canal?
Answer: The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus.
◉ What is an anastomosis?
Answer: A connection between vessels.
◉ What is anatomy?
Answer: The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of
the body.
◉ What does anterior (ventral) mean?
Answer: Before or in front of; refers to the front side of the body or
structure.
◉ What is the appendicular skeleton?
,Answer: The 126 bones that make up the pectoral girdle, upper
extremities, pelvic girdle, and lower extremities.
◉ What is an articulation?
Answer: The connection between two or more bones; a joint.
◉ What is the axial skeleton?
Answer: The 80 bones composing the skull, vertebrae, thorax, and hyoid
bone.
◉ What is bilateral symmetry?
Answer: The symmetry of paired organs or an organism whose right and
left halves are similar images of each other.
◉ What does biliary mean?
Answer: Pertaining to bile.
◉ What is the biliary tract?
Answer: The organs (liver and gall bladder) and ducts that participate in
the secretion, storage, and delivery of bile to the duodenum.
◉ What is a bladder?
Answer: A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion.
,◉ What does buccal mean?
Answer: Relating to the cheek or mouth.
◉ What is cardiology?
Answer: The study of the heart.
◉ What is the carotid canal?
Answer: The canal or passageway in the temporal bone through which
the internal carotid artery passes.
◉ What does central mean?
Answer: Situated at or pertaining to a center or central point.
◉ What is the colon?
Answer: The part of the large intestine beginning with the ascending
colon and ending with the sigmoid colon.
◉ What are conchae?
Answer: Ridges in the walls of the nasal cavity.
◉ What is a condyle?
Answer: A curved protuberance at the end of a bone forming part of an
articulation.
, ◉ What is the cortex?
Answer: The outer layer of an organ.
◉ Define curvature.
Answer: A normal or abnormal bending away.
◉ What does cystic mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a sac-like structure.
◉ What does deep mean?
Answer: Below the surface or toward the central part of a structure.
◉ What is detoxification?
Answer: Reduction of the harmful properties of a poisonous substance.
◉ Define distal.
Answer: Farther away from the point of attachment or from the trunk.
◉ What does dorsal mean?
Answer: Posterior; toward the back.
◉ What is an eminence?
Answer: A prominence or projection, i.e., of a bone.
SCIENCE 167 QUESTIONS 2026
FINAL PAPER PRACTICE
QUESTIONS ANSWERS ACCURATE
A+
◉ What is albumin?
Answer: A protein found in blood plasma.
◉ What is the alimentary canal?
Answer: The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus.
◉ What is an anastomosis?
Answer: A connection between vessels.
◉ What is anatomy?
Answer: The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of
the body.
◉ What does anterior (ventral) mean?
Answer: Before or in front of; refers to the front side of the body or
structure.
◉ What is the appendicular skeleton?
,Answer: The 126 bones that make up the pectoral girdle, upper
extremities, pelvic girdle, and lower extremities.
◉ What is an articulation?
Answer: The connection between two or more bones; a joint.
◉ What is the axial skeleton?
Answer: The 80 bones composing the skull, vertebrae, thorax, and hyoid
bone.
◉ What is bilateral symmetry?
Answer: The symmetry of paired organs or an organism whose right and
left halves are similar images of each other.
◉ What does biliary mean?
Answer: Pertaining to bile.
◉ What is the biliary tract?
Answer: The organs (liver and gall bladder) and ducts that participate in
the secretion, storage, and delivery of bile to the duodenum.
◉ What is a bladder?
Answer: A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion.
,◉ What does buccal mean?
Answer: Relating to the cheek or mouth.
◉ What is cardiology?
Answer: The study of the heart.
◉ What is the carotid canal?
Answer: The canal or passageway in the temporal bone through which
the internal carotid artery passes.
◉ What does central mean?
Answer: Situated at or pertaining to a center or central point.
◉ What is the colon?
Answer: The part of the large intestine beginning with the ascending
colon and ending with the sigmoid colon.
◉ What are conchae?
Answer: Ridges in the walls of the nasal cavity.
◉ What is a condyle?
Answer: A curved protuberance at the end of a bone forming part of an
articulation.
, ◉ What is the cortex?
Answer: The outer layer of an organ.
◉ Define curvature.
Answer: A normal or abnormal bending away.
◉ What does cystic mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a sac-like structure.
◉ What does deep mean?
Answer: Below the surface or toward the central part of a structure.
◉ What is detoxification?
Answer: Reduction of the harmful properties of a poisonous substance.
◉ Define distal.
Answer: Farther away from the point of attachment or from the trunk.
◉ What does dorsal mean?
Answer: Posterior; toward the back.
◉ What is an eminence?
Answer: A prominence or projection, i.e., of a bone.
