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Prepare for your Medical Terminology coursework and exams with a comprehensive study resource designed to help students build a strong foundation in essential healthcare language. This resource provides practice questions and answers covering important medical terms, definitions, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, abbreviations, and common terminology used across healthcare settings. Use the material to strengthen vocabulary, improve recognition of unfamiliar terms, and reinforce your understanding through active recall and self-testing. It can help you identify areas that need additional review while providing a structured way to prepare for quizzes, tests, and course assessments. Whether you are studying nursing, allied health, medical assisting, or another healthcare program, this Medical Terminology resource can support organized and effective preparation.

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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY | STUDY GUIDE |
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,List, from top to bottom, the sections of the spine (vertebral cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral
column).


The combining form oste/o means bone


Which term indicates the narrowing/closing of a joint? adduction


Which of the following muscles belong to the trunk (chest and Pectoralis major
abdomen, not including shoulder and buttocks)? External abdominal oblique
Internal abdominal oblique
Pectoralis minor
Latissimus dorsi


thoracic The section of the vertebral column located in the chest and upper back is


the definition of the root tax/o? coordination


Which term means pain in the tibia? tibialgia


The widening of a joint to move parts away from the body is abduction
called


Which of the following muscles belong to the upper extremity Biceps brachii
(shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand)? Deltoid
Triceps brachii


Spell the term for more than one vertebra vertebrae


The suffix in this word electromyogram means record


Match each medical language term/combining form with its Ankylodactyly - stiff fingers
definition. Ataxia - inability to move
Dystonia - lack of muscle strength
Kinesiology - study of movement

, Deconstruct the term that means vertebral pain by separating Field 1: spondylo
the root from the suffix with a hyphen. Enter hyphens in the Field 2: -
appropriate blanks. Field 3: dynia


A visual record of a joint is termed a(n) arthrogram


In the word craniomalacia, the combining form crani/o means skull


muscles belong to the lower extremity (buttocks, thigh, or Gastrocnemius
leg)?


Puncture of a joint (for example, to retrieve a fluid sample for arthrocentesis
laboratory analysis) is called


hyperkinesia means too much movement


Spell the term that means pus in the joint pyarthrosis


Identify three terms that are used for bone pain generally Osteodynia
(NOT referring to a specific bone) Ostealgia
Ostalgia


Poor development of bones and cartilage is termed chondrosteodystrophy


Spell the term that means abnormal hardening of bone osteosclerosis


When the spinal canal narrows abnormally, the condition is spinal stenosis.
called


Inflammation of the vertebrae is known as spondylitis


Spell the term that indicates the condition where the skull Craniosynostosis
bones are fused

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