Medical Terminology Systems

TEST BANK For Medical Terminology Systems: A Body
Systems Approach 8th Edition by Gylys & Wedding

Adenoma:
a. inflammation of a gland
b. tumor of a gland
c. gland that secretes hormone within the body
d. incision of a gland - ANSWER: tumor of a gland

Biopsy:
a. removal of tissue
b. study of life
c. study of cells
d. removal of living tissue and examination under a microscope - ANSWER: removal
of living tissue and examination under a microscope

Erythrocyte
a. sun burn
b. red skin
c. a red blood cell
d. a white blood cell
e. a thrombocyte - ANSWER: a red blood cell

Inflammation of the intestines.
a. gastrectomy
b. enteritis
c. gastritis
d. pancreatitis
e. rhinitis - ANSWER: enteritis

Concise technical description of the cause, nature or manifestations of a patients
condition, situation or problem.
a. diagnosis
b. prognosis
c. pathology
d. physiology
e. nosocomial - ANSWER: diagnosis

Study of cells.
a. histology
b. pathology
c. oncology
d. cytology

,e. hematology - ANSWER: cytology

Removal of the stomach.
a. gastrotomy
b. gastralgia
c. gastrostomy
d. gastritis
e. gastrectomy - ANSWER: gastrectomy

Incision into the stomach.
a. gastrotomy
b. gastralgia
c. gastostorny
d. gastritis
e. gastrectomy - ANSWER: gastrotomy

Osteotomy:
a. cancerous tumor of cartilage
b. study of the skeleton
c. pertaining to the joints
d. benign tumor of skeletal muscles
e. process of cutting into bone - ANSWER: process of cutting into bone

Hypodermic:
a. study of cells
b. inflammation of the skin
c. pertaining to under the skin
d. record of the electricity in the heart
e. record of the electricity of the brain - ANSWER: pertaining to under the skin

Prognosis:
a. information gathered about a patient1s illness
b. state of before knowledge; prediction about the outcome of an illness
c. study of females and female diseases
d. study of blood
e. pertaining to being produced by treatment - ANSWER: state of before knowledge;
prediction about the outcome of an illness

Oncology:
a. study of nerves
b. study of tumors
c. specialist in the study of tumors
d. study of disease
e. one who studies diseases, performs autopsies, and examines biopsy samples -
ANSWER: study of tumors

Rhinitis:

,a. process of cutting out; removal
b. a clotting cell
c. inflammation of the nose
d. tumor of flesh tissue (cancerous tumor of connective tissues, such as bone,
muscle, cartilage, fat) - ANSWER: inflammation of the nose

Leukocyte:
a. blood condition of white cells; malignant (cancerous) condition
b. white blood cell
c. red blood cell
d. a white blood cell thrombocyte - ANSWER: white blood cell

Iatrogenic:
a. pertaining to producing cancer
b. pertaining to producing disease
c. pertaining to adverse condition in a patient by physicians treatment
d. pertaining to the stomach - ANSWER: pertaining to adverse condition in a patient
by physicians treatment

Cystitis:
a. to cut out, remove
b. specialist in the study of females and female disorders
c. inflammation of the urinary bladder
d. study of the endocrine glands
e. tumor (malignant) of the liver - ANSWER: inflammation of the urinary bladder

Nephrosis:
a. process of viewing life; removal of living tissue for microscopic examination
b. abnormal condition of the kidney
c. abnormal condition (slight increase) of white blood cells
d. disease of the intestines
e. disease of glands - ANSWER: abnormal condition of the kidney

Gastroenterology:
a. study of pancreas and gall bladder
b. incision of a nerve
c. study of the stomach and intestines
d. "without-blood condition" - a decrease in erythrocytes or hemoglobin
e. "self view" - examination of a dead body - ANSWER: study of the stomach and
intestines

Endocrinologist:
a. state of complete knowledge; information gathered about a patient's illness
b. one who specializes in endocrine glands
c. pertaining to above the stomach
d. outer layer of skin; above the dermis layer - ANSWER: one who specializes in
endocrine glands

, Excision:
a. to cut into; section
b. removal of an organ by cutting
c. condition of increased blood sugar
d. pertaining to below the stomach
e. surgical repair - ANSWER: removal of an organ by cutting

Adipose:
a. fatty tumor
b. pertaining to the abdomen
c. pertaining to fat
d. pertaining to the front
e. process of casting up (building-up or synthesizing process in a cell) - ANSWER:
pertaining to fat

Chondrosarcoma:
a. pertaining to the neck
b. tumor of cartilage
c. flesh tumor (malignant) of cartilage
d. "color bodies"; contain genetic material and are located in the nucleus of cell
e. contents (formation) of the cell (apart from the nucleus and cell membrane) -
ANSWER: flesh tumor (malignant) of cartilage

Distal:
a. pertaining to near point of origin
b. pertaining to far (from the beginning of a structure)
c. pertaining to the back
d. study of tissues
e. pertaining to the hand - ANSWER: pertaining to far (from the beginning of a
structure)

Lateral:
a. picture (classification) of the nucleus (and its chromosomes)
b. pertaining to the side
c. pertaining to the lumbar and sacral regions
d. pertaining to the middle
e. pertaining to the ear - ANSWER: pertaining to the side

Posterior:
a. pertaining to near the beginning of a structure
b. pertaining to the spine, backbone
c. pertaining to back, behind
d. pertaining to the hip bone
e. pertaining to the end of a structure - ANSWER: pertaining to back, behind

Ventral: