MRT 110 Midterm Questions with Complete Solutions A+

Abductor muscle - A muscle that draws a limb away from the body Abruptio placentae - Premature separation of the implanted placenta Acromegaly - Endocrine disorder that produces an excessive amount of growth hormone after puberty Agoraphobia - Fear of being in open, crowded, public places from which escape would be difficult. Amniocentesis - Removing fluid from the sac around the baby in the uterus Anorexia - Lacking appetite Aphasia - When a patient knows what he or she wants to say but cannot say it Appendix - Hangs from the cecum and has no clear function Arthralgia - Joint pain Balantis - An inflammation usually caused by overgrowth of organisms (bacteria and yeast) Bipolar disorder - One or more manic episodes altering with depressive episodes Biopsy - Procedure that removes a small piece of living tissue from your body BPH - Benign prostatic hyperplasia. Urinalysis obstructions, unable to empty entire bladder Bulimia nervosa - Binge eating followed by purging BUN - Measurement of urea levels in blood Cec/o - Cecum Cryogenic - Technique for prostate cancer treatment using freezing temperatures to destroy cancer cells Cryptorchism - One or both testicles do not descend, by the time of birth, into the scrotal sac from the abdominal cavity CVA - Cerebrovascular accident. Stroke Cystocele - Occurs when part of the urinary bladder herniates through the vaginal wall as a result of weakness of the pelvic muscles Cytology - Study of cells Dendrite - A stimulus that begins as an impulse in the branching fibers of the neuron Dermat/o - Skin Diagnosis - A state of complete knowledge Divertivulum - Abnormal outpouchings in the intestinal wall