Mt Study Guide Mid Term

_______________ is the death of bone tissue caused by an insufficient blood supply.

• osteoclasis

• osteomalacia

• avascular necrosis

• osteitis

What is the grating sound heard when the ends of a broken bone move together?

• pleurisy

• hallux valgus

• trismus

• crepitation

Which condition is caused by greater-than-normal amounts of bilirubin in the blood?

• ascites

• cirrhosis

• hepatitis

• jaundice

A/an ____ is the invasion of the body by a disease-producing organism.

• infection

• inflammation

• laceration

• lesion

Which altered heart rate is abnormally slow?

• bradycardia

• palpitation

• tachycardia

• ventricular fibrillation

Blood ____ is a condition in which any of the blood components are abnormal in some way.

• anemia

• dyscrasia

• hemorrhage

• sepsis

Which term means an abnormal condition that exists at the time of birth?

• communicable

• congenital

• genetic

• infectious

The medical term for any disease process affecting a lymph node or nodes is ____.

• lymphadenitis

• lymphedema

• lymphadenopathy

• lymphoma

An accumulation of air or gas in the pleural space that causes the lung to collapse is known as ____.

• hemothorax

• empyema

• pneumothorax

• pyothorax

___ is an excessive discharge of mucus from the bronchi.

• Bronchodilator

• Bronchospasm

• Bronchoscopy

• Bronchorrhea