Word Structure & Rules
What is the combining vowel most commonly used to link word roots to suffixes or other roots?
What is "O"?
Which anatomical plane divides the body horizontally into upper (superior) and lower (inferior) portions?
What is the Transverse Plane?
What is the outermost, non-vascular layer of the skin called?
What is the Epidermis?
Which type of dense fibrous connective tissue anchors muscle to bone?
What is a Tendon?
Which two organs make up the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord?
According to the 3-step decoding rule, which word part do you translate first?
What is the Suffix?
What is the opposite directional term for proximal?
What is Distal?
Translate the medical term dermatitis.
What is inflammation of the skin?
Which joint movement describes bending a joint to decrease the angle between two bones?
What is Flexion?
Which cerebral lobe is primarily responsible for processing visual information?
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This suffix means "surgical removal or excision."
What is -ectomy?
Which internal protective body cavity encloses the heart and lungs?
What is the Thoracic Cavity?
In the ABCDE skin cancer screening rule, what does the letter B stand for?
What is Border irregularity?
Which connective tissue anchors bone to bone across a joint?
What is a Ligament?
Translate the Latin eye abbreviation OD.
What is Oculus Dexter (Right Eye)?
What body part does the combining form encephal/o refer to?
What is the Brain?
If skin is described as superficial relative to muscle, where is it located?
What is closer to the body surface?
Which clinical rule is used by healthcare providers to estimate the total body surface area percentage affected by burns?
What is the Rule of Nines?
What term describes the primary muscle that contracts to execute a specific movement?
What is the Agonist (or Prime Mover)?
Both terms begin with presby- (old age). Differentiate presbyopia from presbycusis.
What is presbyopia = age-related near vision loss and presbycusis = age-related hearing loss?
Dissect and translate the medical term electroencephalogram.
What is electr/o + encephal/o + -gram (Record of the electrical activity of the brain)?
Which vertical plane divides the body into front (anterior) and back (posterior) halves?
What is the Frontal (or Coronal) Plane?
Differentiate between the clinical skin symptoms erythema and pruritus.
What is erythema = abnormal redness and pruritus = severe itching?
Differentiate between the spinal deformities scoliosis and kyphosis.
What is scoliosis = abnormal lateral (side-to-side) curvature and kyphosis = exaggerated thoracic curvature ("hunchback")?
Contrast a CVA with a TIA in a neurological patient.
What is CVA = permanent stroke with lasting tissue damage and TIA = temporary, reversible mini-stroke?