AAMI Comprehensive Review Science Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is albumin?
Answer: A protein found in blood plasma.
Question 2: What is the alimentary canal?
Answer: The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus.
Question 3: What is an anastomosis?
Answer: A connection between vessels.
Question 4: What is anatomy?
Answer: The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of the body.
Question 5: What does anterior (ventral) mean?
Answer: Before or in front of; refers to the front side of the body or structure.
Question 6: What is the appendicular skeleton?
Answer: The 126 bones that make up the pectoral girdle, upper extremities, pelvic girdle, and lower
extremities.
Question 7: What is an articulation?
Answer: The connection between two or more bones; a joint.
Question 8: What is the axial skeleton?
Answer: The 80 bones composing the skull, vertebrae, thorax, and hyoid bone.
Question 9: What is bilateral symmetry?
Answer: The symmetry of paired organs or an organism whose right and left halves are similar images of
each other.
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,Question 10: What does biliary mean?
Answer: Pertaining to bile.
Question 11: What is the biliary tract?
Answer: The organs (liver and gall bladder) and ducts that participate in the secretion, storage, and delivery
of bile to the duodenum.
Question 12: What is a bladder?
Answer: A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion.
Question 13: What does buccal mean?
Answer: Relating to the cheek or mouth.
Question 14: What is cardiology?
Answer: The study of the heart.
Question 15: What is the carotid canal?
Answer: The canal or passageway in the temporal bone through which the internal carotid artery passes.
Question 16: What does central mean?
Answer: Situated at or pertaining to a center or central point.
Question 17: What is the colon?
Answer: The part of the large intestine beginning with the ascending colon and ending with the sigmoid
colon.
Question 18: What are conchae?
Answer: Ridges in the walls of the nasal cavity.
Question 19: What is a condyle?
Answer: A curved protuberance at the end of a bone forming part of an articulation.
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,Question 20: What is the cortex?
Answer: The outer layer of an organ.
Question 21: Define curvature.
Answer: A normal or abnormal bending away.
Question 22: What does cystic mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a sac-like structure.
Question 23: What does deep mean?
Answer: Below the surface or toward the central part of a structure.
Question 24: What is detoxification?
Answer: Reduction of the harmful properties of a poisonous substance.
Question 25: Define distal.
Answer: Farther away from the point of attachment or from the trunk.
Question 26: What does dorsal mean?
Answer: Posterior; toward the back.
Question 27: What is an eminence?
Answer: A prominence or projection, i.e., of a bone.
Question 28: What does endocrine mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a ductless gland that secretes directly into the bloodstream.
Question 29: What does exocrine mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a gland that delivers its secretion through a duct.
Question 30: What does external mean?
Answer: Pertaining to the exterior; the opposite of internal.
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, Question 31: What is the external auditory meatus?
Answer: The lateral, outer opening of the ear or auditory canal.
Question 32: What is a fontanel?
Answer: A temporarily unossified area on the surface of the cranium of an infant.
Question 33: Define fossa.
Answer: A shallow depression.
Question 34: What is a gland?
Answer: A secretory organ or structure that can manufacture a secretion.
Question 35: What is a heterocrine gland?
Answer: A gland that has both endocrine and exocrine functions.
Question 36: What is histology?
Answer: The study of tissues.
Question 37: Define inferior.
Answer: Beneath; lower; the undersurface of an organ or a structure below another structure.
Question 38: What does integumentary mean?
Answer: Relating to the outer surface of a structure, i.e., the skin and its components.
Question 39: What does internal mean?
Answer: Within the body; within or on the inside; the opposite of external.
Question 40: What are the Islets of Langerhans?
Answer: Clusters of cells in the pancreas which produce insulin.
Question 41: What is a joint?
Answer: The connection between two bones; an articulation.
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is albumin?
Answer: A protein found in blood plasma.
Question 2: What is the alimentary canal?
Answer: The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus.
Question 3: What is an anastomosis?
Answer: A connection between vessels.
Question 4: What is anatomy?
Answer: The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of the body.
Question 5: What does anterior (ventral) mean?
Answer: Before or in front of; refers to the front side of the body or structure.
Question 6: What is the appendicular skeleton?
Answer: The 126 bones that make up the pectoral girdle, upper extremities, pelvic girdle, and lower
extremities.
Question 7: What is an articulation?
Answer: The connection between two or more bones; a joint.
Question 8: What is the axial skeleton?
Answer: The 80 bones composing the skull, vertebrae, thorax, and hyoid bone.
Question 9: What is bilateral symmetry?
Answer: The symmetry of paired organs or an organism whose right and left halves are similar images of
each other.
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,Question 10: What does biliary mean?
Answer: Pertaining to bile.
Question 11: What is the biliary tract?
Answer: The organs (liver and gall bladder) and ducts that participate in the secretion, storage, and delivery
of bile to the duodenum.
Question 12: What is a bladder?
Answer: A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion.
Question 13: What does buccal mean?
Answer: Relating to the cheek or mouth.
Question 14: What is cardiology?
Answer: The study of the heart.
Question 15: What is the carotid canal?
Answer: The canal or passageway in the temporal bone through which the internal carotid artery passes.
Question 16: What does central mean?
Answer: Situated at or pertaining to a center or central point.
Question 17: What is the colon?
Answer: The part of the large intestine beginning with the ascending colon and ending with the sigmoid
colon.
Question 18: What are conchae?
Answer: Ridges in the walls of the nasal cavity.
Question 19: What is a condyle?
Answer: A curved protuberance at the end of a bone forming part of an articulation.
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,Question 20: What is the cortex?
Answer: The outer layer of an organ.
Question 21: Define curvature.
Answer: A normal or abnormal bending away.
Question 22: What does cystic mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a sac-like structure.
Question 23: What does deep mean?
Answer: Below the surface or toward the central part of a structure.
Question 24: What is detoxification?
Answer: Reduction of the harmful properties of a poisonous substance.
Question 25: Define distal.
Answer: Farther away from the point of attachment or from the trunk.
Question 26: What does dorsal mean?
Answer: Posterior; toward the back.
Question 27: What is an eminence?
Answer: A prominence or projection, i.e., of a bone.
Question 28: What does endocrine mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a ductless gland that secretes directly into the bloodstream.
Question 29: What does exocrine mean?
Answer: Pertaining to a gland that delivers its secretion through a duct.
Question 30: What does external mean?
Answer: Pertaining to the exterior; the opposite of internal.
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, Question 31: What is the external auditory meatus?
Answer: The lateral, outer opening of the ear or auditory canal.
Question 32: What is a fontanel?
Answer: A temporarily unossified area on the surface of the cranium of an infant.
Question 33: Define fossa.
Answer: A shallow depression.
Question 34: What is a gland?
Answer: A secretory organ or structure that can manufacture a secretion.
Question 35: What is a heterocrine gland?
Answer: A gland that has both endocrine and exocrine functions.
Question 36: What is histology?
Answer: The study of tissues.
Question 37: Define inferior.
Answer: Beneath; lower; the undersurface of an organ or a structure below another structure.
Question 38: What does integumentary mean?
Answer: Relating to the outer surface of a structure, i.e., the skin and its components.
Question 39: What does internal mean?
Answer: Within the body; within or on the inside; the opposite of external.
Question 40: What are the Islets of Langerhans?
Answer: Clusters of cells in the pancreas which produce insulin.
Question 41: What is a joint?
Answer: The connection between two bones; an articulation.
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