Med Term Unit 1

What does -plasty mean?

• abnormal hardening

• pain, suffering

• bleeding

• surgical repair

What is required to accompany a word root in medical terminology?

• Suffix

• Prefix

• Combining Form

• Abbreviation

What does Angiography mean?

• Study of disease

• process of producing a radiographic study of blood vessels

• Stomach pain

• Heart attack

Which of the following suffixes mean "abnormal condition"

• -ic

• -osis

• -ia

• -a

What term correctly means abnormal hardening of your arteries?

• Gastrodynia

• Arterioscopy

• Arteriosclerosis

• Hemorrhage

What term relates to an abnormal condition of the spinal cord?

• Orchidectomy

• myoma

• myelosis

• nevus

What is the proper way to spell the term that means severe and sudden bleeding?

• Hemmorhage

• Hemorhage

• Hemorrhage

• Himorage

What term properly defines low blood pressure?

• Hypotension

• Hypertension

• Hypodynamic

• Pyrosis

A prefix is placed before a word root?

• True

• False

What does -rrhexis mean?

• Excessive

• Bad

• Suture

• Rupture