M159 (D-2) Medical Terminology Chapter 1 test

The term ____ describes any pathologic change or disease of muscle tissue.

myopathy

____ describes any abnormal condition or disease caused by a fungus.

Mycosis

_______________________ is the study of disorders of the newborn.

Neonatology

hypo-

under, less, or below

____ is the formation or discharge of pus.

Suppuration

-rrhaphy

surgical suturing

A (FISH-ur) of the skin is a groove or crack-like sore of the skin

fissure

-itis

inflammation

-ectomy

surgical removal

ostomy

surgical creation of an opening

____ is the process of producing a radiographic (x-ray) study of blood vessels after the injection of a contrast medium to make these blood vessels visible.

Angiography

A word root ______________________________________________________.

contains the basic meaning of the term. In medical terminology, this word part usually, but not always, indicates the involved body part.

1. abdomin/o 

2. gastr/o

3. intra- 

4. path 

5. -ology

• abdomen

• stomach

• within or inside

• disease

• study of

____ is lower-than-normal blood pressure.

Hypotension

____, also known as a stomachache, means pain in the stomach.

Gastralgia

______________________________ is any condition of unusual deposits of black pigment in body tissues or organs.

melanosis

1. arteri/o 

2. angi/o 

3. poli/o 

4. myel/o 

5. intra-

• artery

• blood vessel

• gray

• spinal cord or bone marrow

• within or inside

1. -scopy 

2. -stenosis

3. -graphy 

4. -malacia 

5. -megaly

• visual examination

• abnormal narrowing

• process of recording or imaging

• abnormal softening

• enlargement

1. -algia 

2. -sclerosis 

3. -rrhexis 

4. dys- 

5. -rrhea

• pain

• abnormal hardening

• rupture

• bad, difficult, or painful

• flow or discharge

The medical term ____________________ describes an inflammation of the stomach.

gastritis

____ is the rupture of a muscle.

Myorrhexis

1. -plasty 

2. -osis 

3. hyper-

4. -rrhage

5. -otomy

• surgical repair

• abnormal condition or disease

• excessive, increased, or above normal

• excessive flow or discharge

• cutting into, incision

The term meaning wound or injury is ______________________.

Trauma

The term ________________________________________ means pertaining to birth.

natal

1. -ology 

2. my/o 

3. -pathy 

4. myel/o 

5. -centesis

• study of

• muscle

• disease

• spinal cord or bone marrow

• surgical puncture to remove fluid

1. -itis

2. -plasty 

3. -sclerosis 

4. -megaly

5. peri-

• inflammation

• surgical repair

• abnormal hardening

• enlargement

• surrounding

A/An ________________________________ is the surgical removal of the appendix.

appendectomy (ap-en-DECK-toh-mee)

1. cyan/o 

2. my/o 

3. -necrosis 

4. erythr/o 

5. -scopy

• blue

• muscle

• tissue death

• red

• visual examination

1. -ostomy

2. -rrhaphy

3. -rrhea

4. intra-

5. erythr/o

• surgical creation of an opening

• surgical suturing

• flow or discharge

• within or inside

• red

1. my/o 

2. angi/o 

3. arthr/o 

4. dia- 

5. sinistr/o 

• muscle

• blood vessel

• joint

• through, across, or complete

• left side

1. scanty, few

2. right side

3. nose

4. ear

5. under, less, or below

• olig/o

• dextr/o

• rhin/o

• ot/o

• sub-

The medical term meaning suturing together the ends of a severed nerve is

neurorrhaphy

1. algia

2. -ectomy

3. -rrhage

4. -rrhaphy 

5. -malacia

• pain

• surgical removal

• excessive flow or discharge

• surgical suturing

• abnormal softening

1. -ectomy

• surgical removal

____ is the surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid.

Abdominocentesis (ab-dom-ih-noh-sen-TEE-sis)

1. means pertaining to birth

2. means pertaining to

3. means before

4. means surrounding

5. means after or behind 

• natal

• -al

• pre-

• peri-

• post-

A localized response to injury or tissue destruction is called (in-flah-MAY-shun).

inflammatioN

1. poli/o 

2. cyan/o

3. myc/o 

4. gastr/o

5. path 

• gray

• blue

• fungus

• stomach

• disease

____ is higher-than-normal blood pressure.

Hypertension (high-per-TEN-shun

Pain is classified as a ____________________.

symptom (SIMP-tum)

1. arteri/o

2. -necrosis 

3. -stenosis 

4. pyr/o 

5. py/o

• artery

• tissue death

• abnormal narrowing

• fire or fever

• pus

____, also known as heartburn, is discomfort due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus.

Pyrosis (pye-ROH-sis)

1. hypo-

2. -osis

3. -rrhexis 

4. -malacia

5. -stenosis

• under, less, or below

• abnormal condition or disease

• rupture

• abnormal softening

• abnormal narrowing

1. -stenosis

• abnormal narrowing

1. -osis

• abnormal condition or disease

An is a disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or described it first.

eponym

1. my/o 

2. dys- 

3. hyper- 

4. -otomy

5. angi/o

• muscle

• bad, difficult, or painful

• above or excessive

• surgical incision or cutting into

• blood vessel

dys- 

• bad, difficult, or painful

__________________________ means between, but not within, the parts of a tissue.

Interstitial (in-ter-STISH-al)

​A condition in which one or more body parts are not functioning normally.

​disease

___________________________________ is a viral infection of the gray nerve tissue of the spinal cord.

Poliomyelitis (poh-lee-oh-my-eh-LYE-tis)

1. pre-

2. -al

3. ab-

4. macro-

5. peri-

• before

• pertaining to

• away from

• large, abnormal size, or long

• surrounding

The four types of word parts used to create many medical terms are_________________________.

roots, combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes