Medical Terminology Final Exam Questions and Answers Graded A

Medical Terminology Final Exam Questions and Answers Graded A -algesia - ANS -sensitivity to pain -algia - ANS -pain -cele - ANS -hernia -dynia - ANS -pain -ectasia - ANS -dilation, enlargement -ectomy - ANS -excision, surgical removal or cutting out -emesis - ANS -vomiting -gram - ANS -a record -graph - ANS -instrument for recording -graphy - ANS -process of recording -ist - ANS -one who -itis - ANS -inflammation -itis - ANS -inflammation -logic - ANS --logical , pertaining to -logist - ANS -one who studies; specialist -logy - ANS -study or science of -malacia - ANS -soft; abnormal softening -mania - ANS -excessive preoccupation -penia - ANS -decreased or deficient -penia - ANS -deficiency -pexy - ANS -surgical fixation -phasia - ANS -speech -plasia - ANS -formation, development -plasia - ANS -formation, development -plasty - ANS -surgical repair -plasty - ANS -surgical repair -pnea - ANS -breathing -ptosis - ANS -prolapse, sagging or drooping -rrhage - ANS -excessive bleeding or hemorrhage -rrhaphy - ANS -suture -rrhaphy - ANS -suture -rrhaphy - ANS -suture; uniting a wound by stitches -rrhea - ANS -flow or discharge -rrhea - ANS -flow or discharge -rrhexis - ANS -rupture -rrhexis - ANS -rupture -sclerosis - ANS -hardening -spasm - ANS -cramp -stenosis - ANS -narrowing; stricture -stomy - ANS -formation of an opening -tome - ANS -instrument used to cut -tomy - ANS -incision or cutting "condition" word parts - ANS --ia, -iasis, -ism, -osis, -y abductors - ANS -any muscle that makes movement away from the midline of the body possible acromegaly - ANS -a chronic disease of adults in which there is abnmormal enlagement of the extremities of the skeleton caused by hypersecreation of growth hormone after maturity adductors - ANS -muscles responsible for drawing a limb toward the midline of the body adipsia - ANS -absense of thirst adipsia - ANS -absense of thirst adrenal - ANS -flattened body above each kidney that secreates steroid hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine adrenal gland - ANS -two w/ two parts- cortex and medulla. agoraphobia - ANS -intense, irrational fear of open spaces albinism - ANS -congenital absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, caused by absence of defect of tyrosinase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of tyrosine, a precursor of melanin algesi(o) - ANS -sensitivity to pain alopecia - ANS -baldness ambulatory - ANS -person who is able to walk amniocentesis - ANS -percutaneous transabdominal puncture of the amnion for the purpose of removing amniotic fluid amnion - ANS -thin membrane that lines the chorion and contains the fetus and amniotic fluid around it amniorrhexis - ANS -rupture of amnion amniotomy - ANS -deliberate rupture of the fetal membranes to induce labor ana- - ANS -hyper-, super-, ultra- , excessive androgen - ANS -produces masculin characteristics anesthetic - ANS -agent used to produce loss of feeling