Medical Terminology Quiz
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Cryotherapy would be what type of therapy?
A. Hot
B. Warm
C. Cold
D. Normal temperature
Difficult swallowing is called
A. hypophagia
B. aphagia
C. dysphagia
D. tachyphagia
What does “Brady-” mean?
A. Understated
B. Slow
C. Stop
D. Movement
What is the study of blood called?
A. Oncology
B. Hematology
C. Cardiology
D. physiology
What does the suffix ‘-logy’ refer to?
A. Inflammation
B. Study of
C. Forming or causing
D. Blood condition
Specialized cells in your blood that help your blood to clot
A. Red blood cells
B. White blood cells
C. erythrocytes
D. Platelets
scope
A. inspection
B. artificial opening
C. hardening
D. stoppage
What does the prefix ‘intra-‘ refer to?
A. Within
B. Slow
C. Fast
D. Too high
Anatomical area referring to behind the knee
A. Popliteal
B. Axilla
C. Patella
D. Olecranon
Lying in a face down position is
A. supine
B. superior
C. inferior
D. prone
The suffix for pain is
A. pathy
B. plasty
C. ostomy
D. algia
Abbreviations are
A. alright to use if using universally recognized abbreviations
B. alright to use
C. not alright to use
D. can only be used as symbols
nose
A. -ologist
B. rhin-
C. hepat-
D. -oma
Which of the following would describe this picture?
A. Erythro
B. Alb
C. Cyano
D. Hemo
Prefix referring to the side
A. Latero
B. Peri
C. Hyper
D. Ab
What is the BEST option to treat a patient with Hyperthermia?
A. Wrap them in warm blankets
B. Give them hot beverages, like tea or coffee
C. Slowly cool them off with a cool bath
D. Nothing, they are fine/normal
A suffix comes at the end of a word.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
stoppage
A. stomy
B. stasis
C. scope
D. sclerosis
What does “-rrhea” mean?
A. Blood
B. Flow
C. Occlusion
D. Liquid
What does the root word ‘pulmon’ refer to?
A. Joints
B. Bones
C. Stomach
D. Lungs
spasm
A. surgical removal
B. joint
C. involuntary contraction
D. spacemen
vessel
A. enter-
B. cardi-
C. -itis
D. angi-
What is the definition of Syndrome
A. A set of signs and symptoms
B. Set of signs
C. Set of symptoms
D. A disorder
gastro
A. gum
B. old age
C. stomach
D. sugar
What is the proper word the following: hypo-, -emia, glyc/o,
A. Hypoglycemia
B. Hypo-glyc/o-emia
C. Hypo–emiaglyc/o
D. Hypoeniaglcyo
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