NVCC RAD 105 FINAL REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025-2026
Do you have the correct patient? - Answers verification of patient information; match ID
wristband with requisition; many hospitals require "two patient identifiers"
AIDET - Answers Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank you
Hippocrates - Answers the father of modern medicine and medical ethics
Medical terminology - Answers serves as an aid in communication; consistent and uniform
throughout the world; is efficient because it reduces entire phases to a single word
word parts - Answers word root, prefix, suffix, and combining form
word root - Answers the stem or main part of a word; usually in the middle of the word and
central to its meaning
prefix - Answers comes at the beginning to the word; usually identifies some subdivision or part
of the central meaning or changes the meaning
suffix - Answers comes at the end of the word; modifies the central meaning as to what or who
is interacting with it or what is happening to it; usually indicates procedure, condition, disorder,
disease or pertaining to
pericardial - Answers pertaining to the area surrounding the heart
epigastric - Answers pertaining to the area above the stomach
rules for combining - Answers the combining vowel is not used when the suffix begins with a
vowel; the combining vowel is used when the suffix begins with a consonant
myocarditis - Answers muscle heart inflammation
carcin - Answers cancer
cyt - Answers cell
epitheli - Answers epithelium
hist - Answers tissue
lip - Answers fat
my - Answers muscle
neur - Answers nerve
onc - Answers tumor
, path - Answers disease
plasm - Answers growth
sarc - Answers flesh, connective tissue
stasis - Answers control, stop
viscer - Answers internal organ
symptoms - Answers what the patient feels
signs - Answers what you actually see
exam or procedure - Answers to be performed/already performed
medical chart or record - Answers digital or paper
patient history - Answers from nurse upon transport, from other healthcare workers, from
patient directly
anatomic position - Answers body is erect with arms at the side, with palms of the hands facing
forward and feet side by side
frontal or coronal - Answers vertical field passing through a body from side to side; divides the
body into anterior and posterior portions
sagittal - Answers vertical field passing through a body from front to back; divides the body into
right and left sides
mid-sagittal - Answers equal left and right portions
transverse - Answers also called horizontal or axial; horizontal field dividing the body into upper
and lower portions
oblique - Answers longitudinal or transverse plane that is at a slant or angle
anter, anteri - Answers before or front
caud - Answers toward the tail, down, downward
cephal - Answers up, upward, toward the head
dist - Answers away from the point of attachment
dors - Answers back
infer, inferi - Answers below
Do you have the correct patient? - Answers verification of patient information; match ID
wristband with requisition; many hospitals require "two patient identifiers"
AIDET - Answers Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank you
Hippocrates - Answers the father of modern medicine and medical ethics
Medical terminology - Answers serves as an aid in communication; consistent and uniform
throughout the world; is efficient because it reduces entire phases to a single word
word parts - Answers word root, prefix, suffix, and combining form
word root - Answers the stem or main part of a word; usually in the middle of the word and
central to its meaning
prefix - Answers comes at the beginning to the word; usually identifies some subdivision or part
of the central meaning or changes the meaning
suffix - Answers comes at the end of the word; modifies the central meaning as to what or who
is interacting with it or what is happening to it; usually indicates procedure, condition, disorder,
disease or pertaining to
pericardial - Answers pertaining to the area surrounding the heart
epigastric - Answers pertaining to the area above the stomach
rules for combining - Answers the combining vowel is not used when the suffix begins with a
vowel; the combining vowel is used when the suffix begins with a consonant
myocarditis - Answers muscle heart inflammation
carcin - Answers cancer
cyt - Answers cell
epitheli - Answers epithelium
hist - Answers tissue
lip - Answers fat
my - Answers muscle
neur - Answers nerve
onc - Answers tumor
, path - Answers disease
plasm - Answers growth
sarc - Answers flesh, connective tissue
stasis - Answers control, stop
viscer - Answers internal organ
symptoms - Answers what the patient feels
signs - Answers what you actually see
exam or procedure - Answers to be performed/already performed
medical chart or record - Answers digital or paper
patient history - Answers from nurse upon transport, from other healthcare workers, from
patient directly
anatomic position - Answers body is erect with arms at the side, with palms of the hands facing
forward and feet side by side
frontal or coronal - Answers vertical field passing through a body from side to side; divides the
body into anterior and posterior portions
sagittal - Answers vertical field passing through a body from front to back; divides the body into
right and left sides
mid-sagittal - Answers equal left and right portions
transverse - Answers also called horizontal or axial; horizontal field dividing the body into upper
and lower portions
oblique - Answers longitudinal or transverse plane that is at a slant or angle
anter, anteri - Answers before or front
caud - Answers toward the tail, down, downward
cephal - Answers up, upward, toward the head
dist - Answers away from the point of attachment
dors - Answers back
infer, inferi - Answers below
