Test Bank For Quick & Easy Medical
Terminology, 10th Edition, By Peggy
C. Leonard |All Chapters 1-15|
Questions with correct Answers Latest
Update 2026/2027
Contents
Part One: The Basics
Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
Chapter 2. Suffixes and Combining Forms Made Easy
Chapter 3. Essential Prefixes and More
Chapter 4. Diagnostic Procedures and Therapeutic Interventions
Chapter 5. The Body as a Whole
Part Two: Body Systems
Chapter 6. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 7. Circulatory System
Chapter 8. Respiratory System
Chapter 9. Digestive System
Chapter 10. Urinary System
Chapter 11. Reproductive System
Chapter 12. Integumentary System
Chapter 13. Nervous System and Psychologic Disorders
Chapter 14. Special Sensory Organs of the Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter 15. Endocrine System
,Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
1. What is the main body of a word called?
A) Prefix
B) Suffix
C) Word root
D) Combining form
Answer: C) Word root
2. A combining form can be recognized by which symbol?
A) Hyphen before the word
B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
C) Hyphen after the word
D) Parentheses around the word
Answer: B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
3. What does a word root + a combining vowel equal?
A) A prefix
B) A suffix
C) A combining form
D) An eponym
Answer: C) A combining form
4. Which vowel is most frequently used as a combining vowel?
A) a
B) e
C) i
D) o
Answer: D) o
5. What is placed before a word to modify its meaning?
A) Suffix
B) Prefix
C) Word root
D) Combining vowel
Answer: B) Prefix
6. What is attached to the end of a word or word root to modify its meaning?
A) Prefix
B) Word root
C) Suffix
D) Combining vowel
,Answer: C) Suffix
7. How is a prefix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: A) With a hyphen after it
8. How is a suffix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: B) With a hyphen before it
9. Which languages are the origin of more than 90% of medical terms?
A) French and German
B) Latin and Greek
C) Spanish and Italian
D) English and German
Answer: B) Latin and Greek
10. When did extensive borrowing of medical words from Latin and Greek begin?
A) Around A.D. 1000
B) Around A.D. 1200
C) Around A.D. 1500
D) Around A.D. 1800
Answer: C) Around A.D. 1500
11. When should you use the combining vowel?
A) Before suffixes that begin with vowels
B) Before suffixes that begin with consonants
C) Never with suffixes
D) Always with suffixes
Answer: B) Before suffixes that begin with consonants
12. What happens to the combining vowel when a suffix begins with a vowel?
A) It is kept
B) It is dropped
C) It is changed to 'e'
, D) It is doubled
Answer: B) It is dropped
13. In the term "hepatomegaly," why is the combining vowel used?
A) Because -megaly begins with a vowel
B) Because -megaly begins with a consonant
C) Because it's a rule exception
D) Because hepat ends with a consonant
Answer: B) Because -megaly begins with a consonant
14. In the term "hepatitis," why is the combining vowel dropped?
A) Because -itis begins with a consonant
B) Because -itis begins with a vowel
C) Because it's a rule exception
D) Because hepat ends with a vowel
Answer: B) Because -itis begins with a vowel
15. When joining ot/o + -ic, what is the correct term?
A) ototic
B) otic
C) otoic
D) otocic
Answer: B) otic
16. When joining ot/o + -logy, what is the correct term?
A) otlogy
B) otology
C) otalogy
D) otilogy
Answer: B) otology
17. What happens to most prefixes when they are joined with other word parts?
A) They change significantly
B) They require no change
C) They are dropped
D) They are doubled
Answer: B) They require no change
18. Which prefix is an exception to the rule about prefixes not changing?
A) pre-
B) anti-
Terminology, 10th Edition, By Peggy
C. Leonard |All Chapters 1-15|
Questions with correct Answers Latest
Update 2026/2027
Contents
Part One: The Basics
Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
Chapter 2. Suffixes and Combining Forms Made Easy
Chapter 3. Essential Prefixes and More
Chapter 4. Diagnostic Procedures and Therapeutic Interventions
Chapter 5. The Body as a Whole
Part Two: Body Systems
Chapter 6. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 7. Circulatory System
Chapter 8. Respiratory System
Chapter 9. Digestive System
Chapter 10. Urinary System
Chapter 11. Reproductive System
Chapter 12. Integumentary System
Chapter 13. Nervous System and Psychologic Disorders
Chapter 14. Special Sensory Organs of the Peripheral Nervous System
Chapter 15. Endocrine System
,Chapter 1. Simplified Medical Language
1. What is the main body of a word called?
A) Prefix
B) Suffix
C) Word root
D) Combining form
Answer: C) Word root
2. A combining form can be recognized by which symbol?
A) Hyphen before the word
B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
C) Hyphen after the word
D) Parentheses around the word
Answer: B) Diagonal slash mark before an ending vowel
3. What does a word root + a combining vowel equal?
A) A prefix
B) A suffix
C) A combining form
D) An eponym
Answer: C) A combining form
4. Which vowel is most frequently used as a combining vowel?
A) a
B) e
C) i
D) o
Answer: D) o
5. What is placed before a word to modify its meaning?
A) Suffix
B) Prefix
C) Word root
D) Combining vowel
Answer: B) Prefix
6. What is attached to the end of a word or word root to modify its meaning?
A) Prefix
B) Word root
C) Suffix
D) Combining vowel
,Answer: C) Suffix
7. How is a prefix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: A) With a hyphen after it
8. How is a suffix usually written when standing alone?
A) With a hyphen after it
B) With a hyphen before it
C) With parentheses around it
D) With a diagonal slash
Answer: B) With a hyphen before it
9. Which languages are the origin of more than 90% of medical terms?
A) French and German
B) Latin and Greek
C) Spanish and Italian
D) English and German
Answer: B) Latin and Greek
10. When did extensive borrowing of medical words from Latin and Greek begin?
A) Around A.D. 1000
B) Around A.D. 1200
C) Around A.D. 1500
D) Around A.D. 1800
Answer: C) Around A.D. 1500
11. When should you use the combining vowel?
A) Before suffixes that begin with vowels
B) Before suffixes that begin with consonants
C) Never with suffixes
D) Always with suffixes
Answer: B) Before suffixes that begin with consonants
12. What happens to the combining vowel when a suffix begins with a vowel?
A) It is kept
B) It is dropped
C) It is changed to 'e'
, D) It is doubled
Answer: B) It is dropped
13. In the term "hepatomegaly," why is the combining vowel used?
A) Because -megaly begins with a vowel
B) Because -megaly begins with a consonant
C) Because it's a rule exception
D) Because hepat ends with a consonant
Answer: B) Because -megaly begins with a consonant
14. In the term "hepatitis," why is the combining vowel dropped?
A) Because -itis begins with a consonant
B) Because -itis begins with a vowel
C) Because it's a rule exception
D) Because hepat ends with a vowel
Answer: B) Because -itis begins with a vowel
15. When joining ot/o + -ic, what is the correct term?
A) ototic
B) otic
C) otoic
D) otocic
Answer: B) otic
16. When joining ot/o + -logy, what is the correct term?
A) otlogy
B) otology
C) otalogy
D) otilogy
Answer: B) otology
17. What happens to most prefixes when they are joined with other word parts?
A) They change significantly
B) They require no change
C) They are dropped
D) They are doubled
Answer: B) They require no change
18. Which prefix is an exception to the rule about prefixes not changing?
A) pre-
B) anti-
