Untitled Flashcards Set

Question: Choose the correct definition of ossific. Answer: pertaining to bone

Question: Choose the correct definition of brachialgia. Answer: intense pain in the arm

Question: Calorific: productive of what? Answer: heat

Question: What does the combining form of inception mean? Answer: to begin to grow

Question: Choose the correct definition of tumefacient. Answer: producing or tending to produce swelling

Question: What does the prefix of ingestant mean? Answer: in or into

Question: Choose the correct term for 'surrounding the mouth.' Answer: perioral

Question: Choose the correct definition of lateroflexion. Answer: bending or curvature towards one side

Question: Pediculous: infested with what? Answer: lice

Question: Adduct: the meaning of the prefix makes which definition correct? Answer: to draw towards the long axis of the body or a limb

Question: What does incipient mean? Answer: beginning

Question: Ablation indicates what about a part, pathway, or function? Answer: removal

Question: Choose the correct term for 'carrying away from (a central organ or section.)' Answer: efferent

Question: Choose the correct definition of leptophonia. Answer: weakness of the voice

Question: Choose the correct definition of digitate. Answer: having finger-like impressions or processes

Question: A helminthicide is a what that does what? Answer: agent that purges or destroys parasitic worms

Question: Choose the correct term that means 'containing calcium.' Answer: calcigerous

Question: Choose the correct term for '(occurring) after a fever.' Answer: postfebrile

Question: Abduct: the meaning of the prefix makes which definition correct? Answer: to draw away from the medial plane

Question: Which best describes labile? Answer: unsteady or changeable

Question: Contralateral: originating or affecting what side of the body? Answer: the opposite

Question: Excrescence: abnormal growth from where? Answer: the surface of a part

Question: Choose the correct definition of pediculicide. Answer: an agent that kills lice

Question: Choose the correct term for 'incapable of being destroyed by low temperatures.' Answer: frigostabile

Question: Choose the correct term for 'capable of being cut.' Answer: sectile

Question: Choose the correct definition of aborad. Answer: away from the mouth

Question: Superficial: pertaining to or situated where? Answer: on the surface

Question: Subfebrile: having a mildly increased body temperature that is what? Answer: less than 101 degrees

Question: Choose the correct definition of febrifacient. Answer: fever producing

Question: What does the combining form of reflex mean? Answer: to bend

Question: Choose the correct definition of ingestion. Answer: the process of taking material (especially food) into the gastrointestinal tract

Question: Choose the correct definition of deossification. Answer: Loss of mineral matter from bone or osseous tissue

Question: Choose the correct definition of afebrile. Answer: without a fever

Question: Choose the correct definition of flexor. Answer: a muscle that brings two bones closer together, causing a decreased angle of the joint

Question: Choose the correct term for 'on the same side.' Answer: homolateral

Question: What does an incisor do? Answer: cut

Question: Afferent: transporting how? Answer: toward a center

Question: Choose the correct definition of facial. Answer: pertaining to the face

Question: Choose the correct definition of immunology. Answer: study of components of the immune system and their function

Question: Choose the correct term for 'the formation of bone matrix.' Answer: ossification

Question: Choose the correct definition of melaniferous. Answer: containing melanin or black pigment

Question: what does intumesce mean? Answer: to enlarge or swell

Question: Gestosis is any disorder during what? Answer: pregnancy

Question: Choose the correct definition of cytocidal. Answer: lethal to cells

Question: What is calcification in organic tissues and why does it occur? Answer: hardening/deposition of calcium salts

Question: Choose the correct definition of schizophrenia. Answer: thought disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior

Question: What does prolapsus indicate about an organ or internal part? Answer: a falling or dropping down

Question: Choose the correct term for 'located behind and above a part.' Answer: posterosuperior

Question: Ductile: capable of what without what? Answer: elongation without breaking

Question: Choose the correct definition of prosopospasm. Answer: facial spasm

Question: Choose the correct definition of concrescence. Answer: the union of separate parts

Question: What sort of bending is introflexion? Answer: inward

Question: Choose the correct definition of transection. Answer: a cutting across a long axis (a cross section)

Question: Choose the correct term for 'paralysis (of the muscles) on one side of the face.' Answer: facial hemiplegia

Question: Dorsiflect: to bend which way? Answer: backwards

Question: Choose the correct definition of sanguinopurulent. Answer: concerning or containing blood and pus

Question: Tumescence: the condition of being what? Answer: swollen

Question: Ossification is the formation of what? Answer: bone matrix

Question: Choose the correct definition of hemifacial. Answer: pertaining to one side of the face

Question: Choose the correct definition of excision. Answer: cutting away or taking out

Question: Posteroexternal: towards the what and the what? Answer: the back and outer side

Question: Choose the correct definition of incise. Answer: to cut, as with a sharp instrument

Question: What does fungistasis indicate about the growth of fungi? Answer: it is inhibited

Question: Choose the correct definition of thermostabile. Answer: not changed or destroyed by heat

Question: Choose the correct term for 'to cut out a portion of an entire structure.' Answer: resect

Question: Choose the correct definition of decalcification. Answer: removal of calcium salts from bone or teeth

Question: Choose the correct definition of ductule. Answer: a very small duct

Question: Choose the correct definition of cystigerous. Answer: containing cysts

Question: Bisection is a division made how and into how many parts? Answer: cutting/2 parts

Question: Choose the correct term for 'pertaining to the arm.' Answer: brachial

Question: Choose the correct definition of viscerosomatic. Answer: pertaining to the viscera and the rest of the body

Question: Choose the correct definition of somniferous. Answer: sleep producing

Question: Choose the best definition for orifice. Answer: the entrance or outlet of any anatomical structure

Question: Areflexia is the absence of what? Answer: reflexes

Question: Choose the correct definition of exsanguination. Answer: massive bleeding

Question: What does a somnifacient do? Answer: produce sleep

Question: Choose the correct term for 'agent that destroys or inactivates a virus.' Answer: viruc

Question: What is the definition of a virucide? Answer: an agent that destroys or inactivates a virus

Question: Somnolence is prolonged what? Answer: drowsiness or sleepiness

Question: What sort of process is a section? Answer: cutting

Question: Choose the correct term for 'pertaining to the nose and mouth.' Answer: oronasal

Question: What part of the arm is the antebrachium? Answer: the forearm

Question: Choose the correct term for 'agent that kills fungi and their spores.' Answer: fungicide

Question: Frigolabile: capable of being what by what? Answer: destroyed by low temperatures

Question: What does relapse indicate about a disease or symptom? Answer: recurrence after recovery

Question: Choose the correct definition of leukocidin. Answer: something that destroys leukocytes

Question: Choose the correct definition of faciobrachial. Answer: pertaining to the face and arms

Question: Choose the correct term for 'from front to rear.' Answer: anteroposterior

Question: Choose the correction definition of tumefaction. Answer: swelling

Question: Choose the correct definition of resectable. Answer: able to be surgically removed

Question: What does detoxify indicate about the toxic quality of a substance? Answer: its removal

Question: Choose the correct definition of fungistatic. Answer: capable of inhibiting growth of fungi

Question: Choose the correct term for '(opposite to or) away from the mouth.' Answer: aboral

Question: Choose the correct synonym for stabile. Answer: not moving, fixed

Question: Choose the correct definition of pediculophobia. Answer: abnormal dread of lice

Question: Orad indicates direction towards what? Answer: the mouth

Question: Choose the correct definition of adoral. Answer: towards or near the mouth

Question: Choose the correct definition of hypergenitalism. Answer: excessive development of the genital organs

Question: Choose the correct definition of dorsiduction. Answer: drawing towards the back

Question: Choose the correct definition of prolapse. Answer: a dropping down of an organ or internal part