WGU C804 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY PRE-ASSESSMENT
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Which term has a prefix?
Answer:
Hypertension
Question:
2. Which three terms are singular?
Answer:
Metastases - Nucleus - Bronchus
Question:
3. Which combining form means tissue?
Answer:
hist/o
Question:
4. What is the name of the vertical plane that divides the body into front and back portions?
Answer:
coronal
Question:
5. What is the primary function of the integumentary system?
Answer:
Shields the body against injuries, infection, and dehydration
Question:
6. Which medical term means "nails become white, opaque, thickened, and brittle"?
Answer:
Onychomycosis
Question:
7. A patient chart states that a patient has tinea pedis with itching and redness.
Which part of the body has the physician examined?
Answer:
foot
Question:
8. What does the word root in the medical term dermatitis mean?
Answer:
Skin
, Question:
9. What does the abbreviation BCC stand for?
Answer:
Basal cell carcinoma
Question:
10. What is otitis media?
Answer:
Infection of the middle ear
Question:
11. Which word element should be added to the suffix -itis to construct a term that means "inflammation of
the middle ear"?
Answer:
Ot-
Question:
12. What should be added to the suffix -ia to form a term that means "paralysis of the sphincter of the
eye"?
Answer:
Iridopleg-
Question:
13. What is the meaning of the suffix in the medical term tympanoplasty?
Answer:
Surgical repair
Question:
14. What does the combining form mean in the word salpingopharyngeal?
Answer:
Tube
Question:
15. Muscles have four key functions: producing body movement, stabilizing body position, storing and
moving substances within the body, and which other function?
Answer:
Generating heat
Question:
16. Which term refers to a forward curvature of the lumbar region?
Answer:
Lordosis
Question:
17. Which term can be constructed using the word root fascia to mean "surgical repair of fascia"?
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Which term has a prefix?
Answer:
Hypertension
Question:
2. Which three terms are singular?
Answer:
Metastases - Nucleus - Bronchus
Question:
3. Which combining form means tissue?
Answer:
hist/o
Question:
4. What is the name of the vertical plane that divides the body into front and back portions?
Answer:
coronal
Question:
5. What is the primary function of the integumentary system?
Answer:
Shields the body against injuries, infection, and dehydration
Question:
6. Which medical term means "nails become white, opaque, thickened, and brittle"?
Answer:
Onychomycosis
Question:
7. A patient chart states that a patient has tinea pedis with itching and redness.
Which part of the body has the physician examined?
Answer:
foot
Question:
8. What does the word root in the medical term dermatitis mean?
Answer:
Skin
, Question:
9. What does the abbreviation BCC stand for?
Answer:
Basal cell carcinoma
Question:
10. What is otitis media?
Answer:
Infection of the middle ear
Question:
11. Which word element should be added to the suffix -itis to construct a term that means "inflammation of
the middle ear"?
Answer:
Ot-
Question:
12. What should be added to the suffix -ia to form a term that means "paralysis of the sphincter of the
eye"?
Answer:
Iridopleg-
Question:
13. What is the meaning of the suffix in the medical term tympanoplasty?
Answer:
Surgical repair
Question:
14. What does the combining form mean in the word salpingopharyngeal?
Answer:
Tube
Question:
15. Muscles have four key functions: producing body movement, stabilizing body position, storing and
moving substances within the body, and which other function?
Answer:
Generating heat
Question:
16. Which term refers to a forward curvature of the lumbar region?
Answer:
Lordosis
Question:
17. Which term can be constructed using the word root fascia to mean "surgical repair of fascia"?
