Chapter 5: Medical Terminology Quiz

What is a aberration?

• The study of the structure of the human body

• enclosed area; space in the body that contains organs

• Shortened form of a word

• basic unit of life

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What does dorsal mean?

• Towards the back

• Towards the front

• Towards the top

• Towards the feet

What is a cell

• skin

• basic unit of life in living organisms

• tissue sheets that line the body cavities

• tissue that has the ability to shorten and lengthen

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What is a organ?

• carry electrical messages to and from different parts of the body

• membrane that surrounds the lungs

• closest to the point of attachment

• any part of the body that carries out a specific function or functions such as a heart

What is a mucous membrane?

• epithelial tissues that produces fluid called mucous

• the science that deals with the functioning of living organisms

• one of the four imaginary sections of the surface of the abdomen

• serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal and pelvic cavities

What is adduction?

• tail bone

• part of the spine known as the neck

• movement towards the medial plane

• near the back of the body

Pertaining to the sole of the foot...

• plantar

• abdominopelvic

• eversion

• lumbar

Turning inward or inside out

• inferior

• inversion

• deep

• coccyx

near the back of the body

• prone

• superficial

• thoracic

• posterior

what is the ventral cavity that contains heart,lungs,and associated structures

• thoracic

• superficial

• proximal

• inferior