Medical Terminology FINAL review Questions and Answers Graded A

Medical Terminology FINAL review Questions and Answers Graded A -lysis - ANS- loosening, separating -megaly - ANS- large -paresis - ANS- slight paralysis -pexy - ANS- surgical suspension or tacky -phagia - ANS- eating, swallowing -ptosis - ANS- drooping -spasm - ANS- involuntary contraction -uria - ANS- urine condition abruption placentae - ANS- placenta has broken off the wall acidosis - ANS- accumulation of acids in metabolic system->diabetes mellitus amni/o - ANS- amnion an- - ANS- without angioplasty - ANS- surgical repair of a blood vessel aphakia - ANS- condition of without a lens aphasia - ANS- without speech arteriole - ANS- smallest arteries artery - ANS- takes blood away from heart arth/o - ANS- joint atel/o - ANS- incomplete auscultation - ANS- listening for sounds through a stethoscope azot/o - ANS- uria, nitrogen blephar/o - ANS- eyelid blepharitis - ANS- inflammation of the eyelid brady- - ANS- slow calci/o - ANS- calcium capillary - ANS- microscopic blood vessels that connect arterioles with venules cardi/o - ANS- heart cardiomegaly - ANS- enlargement of the heart cardiomyopathy - ANS- disease of the heart muscle cerebral palsy - ANS- brain attack cheil/o - ANS- lip cholecystectomy - ANS- removal of gallbladder chori/o - ANS- chorion corticoids - ANS- steroids creptitus - ANS- grinding or bone on bone cutan/o - ANS- skin cyst/o - ANS- bladder diplopia - ANS- double vision dyskinesia - ANS- bad movement encephala/o - ANS- brain endo- - ANS- within epitaxis - ANS- nose bleed eu- - ANS- good, balanced, normal euthyroid - ANS- thyroid is normal, balanced exopthalmos - ANS- high thyroid, bulging eyes fistula - ANS- gut is near bladder furuncle - ANS- skin node caused by staph. bacteria in hair follicle (boil) gangrene - ANS- death of tissue caused by loss of blood supply followed by bacteria invasion gloss/o - ANS- tongue glycos/o - ANS- sugar goiter - ANS- a bulge in the neck, thyroid is high hem/o - ANS- blood hemicolectomy - ANS- removal of half of a colon hemiplegia - ANS- half paralysis hemoglobin A1C - ANS- blood test for diabetics hist/o - ANS- tissue hydr/o - ANS- water hydronephrosis - ANS- condition of water backing up in the kidney hyper- - ANS- too much hyperglycemia - ANS- excessive sugar hyperthyroidism - ANS- high thyroid hypo- - ANS- not enough hypothyroidism - ANS- low thyroid immune system - ANS- protection, pathogens, fights off infections kal/i - ANS- potassium kerat/o - ANS- tough tissue, cornea