VETT 118 WEEKS 1-3 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the medical term that means to secrete externally? - Answer- Exocrine
What is the medical term for inflammation of the stomach and small intestine? - Answer-
Gastroenteritis
What is the medical term that pertains to a medication that helps prevent vomiting? -
Answer- Antiemetic
What is the inner layer of the peritoneum that surrounds the abdominal organs? -
Answer- Visceral
What is the study of body functions called? - Answer- Physiology
The directional term meaning away from the midline is: - Answer- lateral
T/F: Cardiac muscle is considered voluntary. - Answer- False
The ability for us to do a "puppy count" via radiographs is related to which of the
following? - Answer- Ossification
What is the term used to describe the "knee" joint of cats and dogs in a medical setting?
- Answer- Stifle
Tissue that connects bone to bone is called: - Answer- ligament
What are the three parts of the pelvis? - Answer- Ilium
Ischium
Pubis
For the term "ovariohysterectomy", what is the prefix? - Answer- There is no prefix.
What is the medical term that is an adjective that means pertaining to the slime-like
substance composed of glandular secretion, salts, cells, and white blood cells? -
Answer- Mucous
The prefix ___ means increased, while the prefix ___ means decreased. - Answer-
Hyper-, Hypo-
, What is the part of the word that provides the essential meaning of the word? - Answer-
Root
Which of the following suffixes are conditional?
1. -ic
2. -al
3. -ia
4. -osis
5. -itis - Answer- 3. -ia
4. -osis
5. -itis
Which of the following pairs are both nouns?
1. Cyanotic, Anemic
2. Cyanosis, Anemia
3. Cyanotic, Anemia
4. Cyanosis, Anemic - Answer- 2. Cyanosis, Anemia
Which of the following sets contain prefixes that have opposite meaning?
1. endo-, ecto-
2. sub-, supra-
3. ab-, ad
4. poly-, an- - Answer- All of the above
What suffix means cutting into or incision? - Answer- -tomy
What prefix means away from? - Answer- Ab-
What suffix means to remove an organ or body part? - Answer- -ectomy
What suffix means the "study of"? - Answer- -ology
What suffix means to surgically create a new opening? - Answer- -stomy
What prefix means "below"? - Answer- -sub
What prefix means "across"? - Answer- Trans-
What prefix means "outside"? - Answer- Ecto-
What suffix means surgical repair? - Answer- -plasty
What is the medical term that means suturing of the stomach to the body wall? -
Answer- Gastropexy
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the medical term that means to secrete externally? - Answer- Exocrine
What is the medical term for inflammation of the stomach and small intestine? - Answer-
Gastroenteritis
What is the medical term that pertains to a medication that helps prevent vomiting? -
Answer- Antiemetic
What is the inner layer of the peritoneum that surrounds the abdominal organs? -
Answer- Visceral
What is the study of body functions called? - Answer- Physiology
The directional term meaning away from the midline is: - Answer- lateral
T/F: Cardiac muscle is considered voluntary. - Answer- False
The ability for us to do a "puppy count" via radiographs is related to which of the
following? - Answer- Ossification
What is the term used to describe the "knee" joint of cats and dogs in a medical setting?
- Answer- Stifle
Tissue that connects bone to bone is called: - Answer- ligament
What are the three parts of the pelvis? - Answer- Ilium
Ischium
Pubis
For the term "ovariohysterectomy", what is the prefix? - Answer- There is no prefix.
What is the medical term that is an adjective that means pertaining to the slime-like
substance composed of glandular secretion, salts, cells, and white blood cells? -
Answer- Mucous
The prefix ___ means increased, while the prefix ___ means decreased. - Answer-
Hyper-, Hypo-
, What is the part of the word that provides the essential meaning of the word? - Answer-
Root
Which of the following suffixes are conditional?
1. -ic
2. -al
3. -ia
4. -osis
5. -itis - Answer- 3. -ia
4. -osis
5. -itis
Which of the following pairs are both nouns?
1. Cyanotic, Anemic
2. Cyanosis, Anemia
3. Cyanotic, Anemia
4. Cyanosis, Anemic - Answer- 2. Cyanosis, Anemia
Which of the following sets contain prefixes that have opposite meaning?
1. endo-, ecto-
2. sub-, supra-
3. ab-, ad
4. poly-, an- - Answer- All of the above
What suffix means cutting into or incision? - Answer- -tomy
What prefix means away from? - Answer- Ab-
What suffix means to remove an organ or body part? - Answer- -ectomy
What suffix means the "study of"? - Answer- -ology
What suffix means to surgically create a new opening? - Answer- -stomy
What prefix means "below"? - Answer- -sub
What prefix means "across"? - Answer- Trans-
What prefix means "outside"? - Answer- Ecto-
What suffix means surgical repair? - Answer- -plasty
What is the medical term that means suturing of the stomach to the body wall? -
Answer- Gastropexy
