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Chapter 01: Introduction to Medical Language and Evolve Student Resources LaFleur:
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Exploring Medical Language, 11th Edition
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1. Medical language includes terms built from which of the following languages?
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b. Italian and French ij ij



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d. Chinese and Japanese ij ij




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2. A medical term formed from the first letters of the words in a phrase, which can be spoken as a
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3. A term named for a person or a place, such as Alzheimer disease named for the physician who
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first described the symptoms as seen in a patient, is
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ANS: i j C REF: 4 i j i j OBJ: i j i j 2
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4. The word part that contains the fundamental meaning of the word is the
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c. suffix.
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5. The word part that is attached to the beginning of a word root to modify its meaning is the
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b. suffix.
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6. The word part that is attached to the end of a word root to modify its meaning is the
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a. combining vowel. ij



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d. prefix.
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7. All medical terms have at least one
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8. A combining form is made up of a
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9. A combining vowel is used to
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10. The most common combining vowel is
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a. a.
b. i.
c. e.
d. o.
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11. In the term arthr/itis, itis is the
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d. suffix.
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12. In the term sub/hepat/ic, which part is the prefix?
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a. ic
b. sub
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