ALHS 1090 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

ALHS 1090 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS a combining form is a word root plus - Answer -a vowel in medical word building, combining forms are used with suffixes that begin with - Answer -a consonant the word root usually indicates - Answer -body part in the term "hypogastric" the prefix is - Answer -hypo which of the ofllowing statements regarding compound words is false - Answer -they have only one word element and a suffix a word root is usually derived from the Greek or Latin language T/F - Answer -true the "element" at the end of a medical term is a - Answer -suffix which of the following words is built incorrectly - Answer -gastr/plasty should be gastr/o/plasty a combining form is a prefix plus a word root T/F - Answer -falsea combining vowel - Answer -enables to word elements to be connected the combining vowel is usually - Answer -O the most important part of a medical term is the suffix - Answer -false which of the following is an example of when a combining form is used to link one word root to another word root? - Answer - gastr/o/esophag/itis gastr/o is a combining form T/F - Answer -true all medical words have a prefix T/F - Answer -false in medical terminology a suffix usually indicates - Answer -a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech the combining vowel "e" is used frequently to form medical words T/F - Answer -false the elements used to form medical words are - Answer -prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, word roots an element located at the beginning of a word is called a - Answer - prefix oste/o/chondr/itis is an example of - Answer -a compound word hepat/o/megaly means enlargement of the liver, in this word, hepat/o is a - Answer -combining form arthr/o is an example of a - Answer -combining form in the word therm/o/meter, -meter is - Answer -suffixin the word "nephrectomy" the word root is - Answer -nephr a suffix for pain is - Answer --algia neur/o means nerve or nerve cells, the word for tumor of nerve cells is - Answer -neur/oma a suffix that means formation or growth (2) - Answer --plasm, -plasia a person with osteomalacia has __ of the bones - Answer -softening a microtome is an - Answer -instrument for cutting which suffix means surgical puncture - Answer --centesis fixation of a breast is - Answer -mastopexy the medical word meaning of enlargment of the liver is - Answer - hepat/o/megaly which suffix means crushing - Answer --tripsy the pleural of fornix is - Answer -fornices a nurse has been ordered to care for a patient with abdominal myoptosis. based on this information, we know that this patient is exhibiting with muscles that are - Answer -drooping downward medical suffix that means pertaining to: - Answer --ic, -ior, -ous, -al, -ac the suffix -iatry means - Answer -medicine; treatment the suffix -penia means - Answer -decrease, deficiency in dystrophy, the suffix -trophy means - Answer -development, nourishment