Wgu Medical Terminology - C804 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

Wgu Medical Terminology - C804
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Keratin - CORRECT ANSWER - A protein that prevents body fluids from evaporating.
Keratinized cells rise to the dermis, and slough off.


skin - CORRECT ANSWER - Cutane. Dermat. Derm.



What is fat - CORRECT ANSWER - adipose tissue. Lip/o. Steat/o.



ichthy/o - CORRECT ANSWER - dry, scaly



melan/o - CORRECT ANSWER - black



myc/o - CORRECT ANSWER - fungus



scler/o - CORRECT ANSWER - hardening; sclera (white of eye)



plasty (suffix) - CORRECT ANSWER - surgical repair



Therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - treatment



-oid (suffix) - CORRECT ANSWER - resembling



-derma (suffix) - CORRECT ANSWER - skin

, word root - CORRECT ANSWER - foundation of the word



suffix - CORRECT ANSWER - word ending



prefix - CORRECT ANSWER - a syllable or word that comes before a root word to
change its meaning


Organ - CORRECT ANSWER - A body structure that is composed of different kinds of at
least two tissues that work together.


leuk/o - CORRECT ANSWER - white



xanth/o - CORRECT ANSWER - yellow



erythr/o - CORRECT ANSWER - red



cyt/o - CORRECT ANSWER - cell



carcinoma - CORRECT ANSWER - a cancer arising in the epithelial tissue of the skin or
of the lining of the internal organs.


sarc/o - CORRECT ANSWER - flesh, connective tissue



AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER - (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) a disease caused
by a virus that attacks the immune system


necr/o - CORRECT ANSWER - Denotes death