Test bank for the language of medicine 9th edition chabner

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Chabner: The Language of Medicine, 9th Edition
Chapter 01: Basic Word Structure
Test Bank
1. Gastrectomy:
a. Gastric resection
b. Intestinal incision
c. Tumor of the stomach
d. Incision of the stomach
e. Resection of the intestine
ANS: A
2. Osteitis:
a. Incision of a bone
b. Removal of a bone
c. Incision of a joint
d. Inflammation of a joint
e. Inflammation of a bone
ANS: E
3. Cystoscopy:
a. Study of cells
b. Visual examination of cells
c. Removal of a sac of fluid
d. Removal of the urinary bladder
e. Visual examination of the urinary bladder
ANS: E
4. Hepatoma:
a. Incision of the kidney
b. Tumor of the liver
c. Blood mass
d. Inflammation of the liver

e. Red blood cell
ANS: B
5. Which of the following is not an endocrine gland?
a. Thyroid gland
b. Adrenal gland
c. Ovary
d. Mammary gland
e. Pituitary gland
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6. Iatrogenic:
a. Pertaining to produced by treatment
b. Produced by the mind
c. Cancer producing
d. Pertaining to producing a tumor
e. Cutting into a tumor
ANS: A
7. Electroencephalogram:
a. Record of electricity in the brain
b. Record of electricity in the heart
c. X-ray of the brain
d. Record of sound waves in the brain
e. X-ray of the heart and brain
ANS: A
8. Diagnosis:
a. Made after the prognosis
b. A guess as to the patient’s condition
c. A prediction of the course of treatment

d. Made on the basis of complete knowledge about the patient’s condition
e. A treatment of the patient
ANS: D
9. Cancerous tumor:
a. Hematoma
b. Adenoma
c. Carcinoma
d. Carcinogenic
e. Neurotomy
ANS: C
10. Microscopic examination of living tissue:
a. Incision
b. Pathology
c. Biopsy
d. Autopsy
e. Resection
ANS: C
11. Pertaining to the largest part of the brain:

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b.
c.
d.
e.

Cerebral
Cephalic

Renal
Cardiac
Neural

ANS: A
12. Removal of a gland:
a. Gastrotomy
b. Gastric
c. Hepatic resection
d. Nephric section
e. Adenectomy
ANS: E
13. Decrease in numbers of red blood cells or hemoglobin within red blood cells:
a. Anemia
b. Erythrocytosis
c. Thrombocytosis
d. Leukemia
e. Leukocytosis
ANS: A
14. Pathologist is one who:
a. Examines x-rays
b. Operates on the urinary tract
c. Performs autopsies and reads biopsies
d. Operates on the kidney
e. Treats diseases with chemicals
ANS: C
15. Pain in a joint:
a. Ostealgia
b. Arthritis
c. Osteoarthritis

d. Arthroalgia
e. Arthralgia
ANS: E
16. Increase in numbers of malignant white blood cells:
a. Leukocytosis
b. Leukemia
c. Erythremia
d. Thrombocytosis
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ANS: B
17. Instrument to view the eye:
a. Ophthalmoscopy
b. Opthalmoscope
c. Opthalmology
d. Ophthalmoscope
e. Opthalmoscopy
ANS: D
18. A platelet:
a. Hematoma
b. Thrombosis
c. Leukocyte
d. Thrombocyte
e. Erythrocyte
ANS: D
19. Abnormal condition of the mind:
a. Physchosis
b. Psychosis

c. Psychogenic
d. Encephalopathy
e. Adenoma
ANS: B
20. Inflammation of the nose:
a. Arthrosis
b. Hepatitis
c. Nephritis
d. Dermatosis
e. Rhinitis
ANS: E
21. Study of cells:
a. Pathology
b. Cytology
c. Cystology
d. Dermatology
e. Urology
ANS: B

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a. Subrenal
b. Transdermal
c. Transhepatic
d. Subhepatic
e. Hepatoma
ANS: C
23. Abnormal condition of the kidney:

a. Neurologic
b. Neuralgia
c. Nephrotomy
d. Neural
e. Nephrosis
ANS: E
24. Incision of a bone:
a. Sarcoma
b. Pathogenic
c. Osteotomy
d. Ostectomy
e. Endoscopy
ANS: C
25. High level of sugar in the blood:
a. Hematoma
b. Hypodermic
c. Hypoglycemia
d. Hyperglycemia
e. Hypogastric
ANS: D
Select the term that is spelled correctly:
26. Resection of a nerve:
a. neruotomy
b. neurectomy
c. neurotomy
ANS: B
27. Pertaining to produced by treatment:
a. iatrogenic
b. iatragenic
c. itarogenic

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28. Pertaining to the brain:
a. cerebrol
b. serebral
c. cerebral
ANS: C
29. Cancerous tumor:
a. carcinoma
b. carsinoma
c. karsinoma
ANS: A
30. Collection of blood:
a. hepatoma
b. hematoma
c. hepitoma
ANS: B
31. High blood sugar:
a. hypoglycemia
b. hyperglicemia
c. hyperglycemia
ANS: C
32. Membrane surrounding the heart:
a. perycardium
b. pericardium
c. pericardum
ANS: B
33. Instrument to examine within:

a. endoscope
b. endoskope
c. endoscopy
ANS: A
34. Disease of the intestines:
a. entrapathy
b. interopathy
c. enteropathy

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35. Inflammation of the urinary bladder:
a. cytitis
b. cystitis
c. sistitis
ANS: B
WORD PARTS/TERMINOLOGY
Select the correct meaning for each of the following combining forms:
36. arthr/o:
a. gland
b. red
c. joint
ANS: C
37. cyst/o:
a. urinary bladder
b. cell
c. to secrete
ANS: A

38. encephal/o:
a. electricity
b. brain
c. cell
ANS: B
39. aden/o:
a. brain
b. gland
c. joint
ANS: B
40. cyt/o:
a. cerebrum
b. urinary bladder
c. cell
ANS: C
41. carcin/o:

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b. to secrete
c. heart
ANS: A
42. cephal/o:
a. intestines
b. head
c. cell
ANS: B
43. cerebr/o:

a. cerebrum, largest part of the brain
b. head
c. cancer
ANS: A
44. enter/o:
a. flesh
b. stomach
c. intestine, usually small intestine
ANS: C
45. hepat/o:
a. liver
b. blood
c. kidney
ANS: A
46. ped/o:
a. bone
b. child
c. disease
ANS: B
47. ren/o:
a. nose
b. kidney
c. liver
ANS: B
48. ur/o:

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b. tumor
c. urine or urinary tract
ANS: C
Select the correct meaning for each of the following suffixes:
49. -gram:
a. protein
b. blood condition
c. record
ANS: C
50. -itis:
a. blood condition
b. inflammation
c. excision; removal
ANS: B
51. -opsy:
a. instrument to visually examine
b. process of viewing
c. tumor; mass; swelling
ANS: B
52. -oma:
a. tumor; mass; swelling
b. condition
c. process of viewing
ANS: A
53. -scopy:
a. excision; removal
b. instrument to visually examine
c. process of visual examination
ANS: C
54. -logy:

a. process of study; study of
b. condition
c. protein
ANS: A

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55. hyper-:
a. deficient; below; under; less than normal
b. surrounding; around
c. excessive; above; more than normal
ANS: C
56. peri-:
a. before; forward
b. surrounding; around
c. across; through
ANS: B
57. epi-:
a. into; in
b. outside of; outward
c. above; upon
ANS: C
58. trans-:
a. across; through
b. surrounding; around
c. before; forward
ANS: A
59. hypo-:

a. surrounding; around
b. deficient; below; under; less than normal
c. excessive; above; more than normal
ANS: B
60. dia-:
a. through; complete
b. self; own
c. behind
ANS: A
Select the correct combining form for each of the following terms:
61. Heart:
a. carcin/o

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c. crin/o
ANS: B
62. Skin:
a. derm/o
b. erythr/o
c. sarc/o
ANS: A
63. Sugar:
a. gnos/o
b. leuk/o
c. glyc/o
ANS: C
64. X-rays:

a. radi/o
b. path/o
c. onc/o
ANS: A
65. Flesh:
a. derm/o
b. rhin/o
c. sarc/o
ANS: C
Match the terms with the correct combining forms:
a. psych/o
g. onc/o
b. ophthalm/o
h. sarc/o
c. path/o
i. thromb/o
d. ren/o
j. ur/o
e. rhin/o
k. oste/o
f. radi/o
l. sect/o
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.

Kidney
Disease
Eye
Nose
Flesh
Bone
Mind

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74.
75.
76.
77.

Tumor
Clotting
Urinary tract
X-rays
To cut

66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
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72.

73.
74.
75.
76.
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K
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Match the terms with the correct definitions:
a. adenopathy
k. leukemia
b. arthralgia
l. leukocytosis
c. biopsy
m. nephrectomy
d. carcinogenic
n. neuralgia
e. cystoscopy
o. oncologist
f. erythrocyte
p. ophthalmoscope
g. gastrotomy
q. osteitis
h. hematoma
r. pathologist
i. hyperglycemia
s. prognosis
j. iatrogenic
t. thrombocyte
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79.
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84.

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86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.

Pain of nerves
Inflammation of bone
Prediction about the outcome of treatment
Microscopic examination of living tissue
Blood cell that carries oxygen
Physician who specializes in drug treatment of cancerous tumors
Disease of a gland
Resection of a kidney
A platelet
Process of visual examination of the urinary bladder
Pertaining to an abnormal condition produced by a treatment
Incision of the stomach
Pertaining to producing cancer
An instrument to visually examine the eye
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93.
94.
95.
96.

97.

High blood sugar: diabetes mellitus
A physician who examines dead bodies to determine the cause of death
Pain of a joint
Mass or collection of blood
Slight increase in numbers of white blood cells as response to infection
Increase in abnormal, immature white blood cells; a malignant condition

78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
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84.
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96.
97.

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Match the meanings with their correct terms:
a. Low levels of blood sugar
b. Treatment of the mind
c. Study of tumors
d. Excision of the stomach
e. Pertaining to producing cancer
f. Abnormal condition (slight increase) of white blood cells
g. Brain disease
h. Abnormal condition of the skin
i. Cancerous condition of white blood cells
j. Pertaining to produced by treatment
98.
99.
100.
101.

encephalopathy
carcinogenic

oncology
dermatosis

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103.
104.
105.
106.
107.

psychiatry
leukemia
hypoglycemia
iatrogenic
gastric resection
leukocytosis

98.
99.
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101.
102.
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104.
105.
106.
107.

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PRONUNCIATION
Give the accented syllable in the following terms (For example: anemia = ne, diagnosis =
no, endocrine = en):
108. arthrotomy:
a. arth
b. ro
c. to

d. my
ANS: B
109. cystoscopy:
a. cys
b. tos
c. co
d. py
ANS: B
110. gastrectomy:
a. gas
b. trec
c. to
d. my
ANS: B

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a. endo
b. cri
c. nol
d. o
e. gy
ANS: C
112. neuralgia:
a. neur
b. al
c. gi
d. a

ANS: B
113. pericarditis:
a. per
b. i
c. car
d. di
e. tis
ANS: D
114. ophthalmoscope:
a. oph
b. thal
c. mo
d. scope
ANS: B
115. hepatoma:
a. hep
b. a
c. to
d. ma
ANS: C
116. retrogastric:
a. re
b. tro
c. gas
d. tric
ANS: C

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a. cy
b. tol
c. o
d. gy
ANS: B
SPELLING
Select the term that is spelled correctly:
118.
a. luekocyte
b. leukocyte
ANS: B
119.
a. neuralgia
b. nueralgia
ANS: A
120.
a. erythrocyte
b. erthyrocyte
ANS: A
121.
a. opthalmoscopy
b. ophthalmoscopy
ANS: B
122.
a. pathogenic
b. pathojenic
ANS: A
123.
a. thrombocyte

b. thrombocyt
ANS: A

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a. sacroma
b. sarcoma
ANS: B
125.
a. psychology
b. physcology
ANS: A
126.
a. biospy
b. biopsy
ANS: B
127.
a. gynocology
b. gynecology
ANS: B
Give meanings for the following combining forms:
128. arthr/o: __________
ANS: joint
129. cyst/o: __________
ANS: urinary bladder
130. encephal/o: __________
ANS: brain
131. aden/o: __________

ANS: gland
132. cyt/o: __________
ANS: cell
133. carcin/o: __________

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134. cephal/o: __________
ANS: head
135. cerebr/o: __________
ANS:
cerebrum
largest part of the brain
136. cyt/o: __________
ANS: cell
137. encephal/o: __________
ANS: brain
138. enter/o: __________
ANS:
intestine
small intestine
139. hepat/o: __________
ANS: liver
140. ped/o: __________
ANS: child
141. ren/o: __________
ANS: kidney
142. ur/o: __________

ANS:
urine
urinary tract
143. cis/o: __________

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Give meanings for the following suffixes:
144. -gram: __________
ANS: record
145. -itis: __________
ANS: inflammation
146. -opsy: __________
ANS: to view
147. -oma: __________
ANS: tumor
148. -scopy: __________
ANS: process of visual examination
149. -logy: __________
ANS: study of
Complete the medical terms from their meanings:
150. mass of blood: __________oma
ANS: hemat
151. white blood cell: __________cyte
ANS: leuko
152. pain of nerves: neur__________
ANS: algia
153. red blood cell: __________cyte

ANS: erythro

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154. hyper-: __________
ANS:
excessive
above
155. peri-: __________
ANS: surrounding
156. epi-: __________
ANS: above
157. trans-: __________
ANS:
across
through
158. hypo-: __________
ANS:
below
deficient
159. dia-: __________
ANS:
through
complete
Complete the following medical terms:
160. Prediction about the outcome of a disease; “before knowledge”: pro__________
ANS: gnosis
161. Inflammation of the kidney: __________itis

ANS: nephr
162. Pertaining to producing disease: patho__________

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163. Study of women and female reproductive diseases: __________ology
ANS: gynec
164. Record of electricity in the brain: electro__________
ANS: encephalogram
165. Abnormal condition of clotting cells: thrombocyt__________
ANS: osis
166. Examination of living tissue under a microscope: bi__________
ANS: opsy
167. Pertaining to the largest part of the brain: __________al
ANS: cerebr
168. Tumor of a gland (benign): __________oma
ANS: aden
169. Inflammation of bone and joint: __________arthritis
ANS: osteo
Give the combining forms for the following terms:
170. heart: __________
ANS: cardi/o
171. skin: __________
ANS:
derm/o
dermat/o
172. sugar: __________
ANS: glyc/o

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ANS: gynec/o
174. x-rays: __________
ANS: radi/o
175. mind: __________
ANS: psych/o
176. nose: __________
ANS: rhin/o
177. flesh: __________
ANS: sarc/o
Give meanings for the following suffixes and prefixes:
178. hypo-: __________
ANS:
deficient
below
under
less than normal
179. dia-: __________
ANS:
through
complete
180. -scopy: __________
ANS: process of visually examining
181. -gram: __________
ANS: record
182. -globin: __________

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183. trans-: __________
ANS:
across
through
184. sub-: __________
ANS:
below
under
185. retro-: __________
ANS: behind
186. epi-: __________
ANS:
above
upon
187. end-, endo-: __________
ANS: within
Select the term that is spelled correctly and give its meaning:
188. a. luekocyte
b. leukocyte
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
b, white blood cell
189. a. neuralgia
b. nueralgia
a or b: ____ meaning: __________

ANS:
a, pain of nerves
190. a. erythrocyte
b. erthyrocyte

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ANS:
a, red blood cell
191. a. opthalmoscopy
b. ophthalmoscopy
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
b, visual examination of the eye
192. a. pathogenic
b. pathojenic
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
a, pertaining to producing disease
193. a. thrombocyte
b. thrombocyt
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
a, clotting cell (platelet)
194. a. sacroma
b. sarcoma
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:

b, tumor of fleshy tissue (malignant)
195. a. psychology
b. physcology
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
a, study of the mind
196. a. biospy
b. biopsy
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
b, view (microscopic) of living tissue

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b. gynecology
a or b: ____ meaning: __________
ANS:
b, study of female diseases
Using slashes, divide the following terms into parts and give the meanings of the terms (For
example: adenoma = aden/oma, tumor of glandular tissue):
198. cerebral:
word parts: __________ meaning: __________
ANS:
cerebr/al, pertaining to the cerebrum
cerebr/al, largest part of the brain
199. electrocardiogram:
word parts: __________ meaning: __________
ANS:

electrocardio/gram, record of the electricity in the heart
200. dermatitis:
word parts: __________ meaning: __________
ANS:
dermat/itis, inflammation of the skin
201. cephalic:
word parts: __________ meaning: __________
ANS:
cephal/ic, pertaining to the head
Give the suffix in each term and the meaning of the entire term:
202. nephrectomy:
suffix: _____ meaning: __________
ANS:
ectomy, removal of the kidney
203. osteotomy:
suffix: _____ meaning: __________

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