Chapter 1
A combining vowel is used when the suffix begins with a _____?
What is a consonant
The study of how the body is shaped and structured is called?
What is anatomy.
The adult skeleton has how many bones?
What is 206.
Muscle that is found in the walls of hollow internal organs, blood vessels and the respiratory passageways is what type?
What is smooth muscle.
What is the medical word part for triangle?
What is delt/o
The term to describe inflammation of the joints is?
What is arthritis
What type of tissue supports and binds other body tissues?
What is connective tissue.
What term is used to describe the 7 pairs of ribs that are attached directly to the sternum?
What are true ribs.
Name the type of muscle contraction that usually produces movement at a joint.
What is isotonic.
What is the by-product of energy used for muscle contraction?
What is heat.
The combining form that refers to the stomach is?
What is gastr/o.
What is the term for the study of disease?
What is pathology.
The medical term for the collar bone is?
What is the clavicle.
What is the word part that means chest?
What is stern/o
Name the characteristic of muscle that allows it to shorten in response to stimulus?
What is contractility.
The foundation of the medical term is which word part?
What is the word root or root word.
What is the name of the imaginary line drawn from the crown of the head down between the eyes, through the chest, and separating the legs?
What is the midline.
Name the 2 bones that make up the lower leg.
What are the tibia and fibula.
The muscle disorder that is characterized by musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, muscle stiffness/spasms, and sleep disturbances is?
What is fibromyalgia.
Where is red bone marrow found?
What is the spongy bone.
What is the root word for "bone"?
What is oste/o
What is the name of the body cavity that protects the nervous system organs and contains the cranial and spinal cavities?
What is the Dorsal cavity.
What is the term for a visual examination of a joint?
What is arthroscopy.
Define peristalsis?
What is the involuntary, wave-like muscle contraction to move substances through hollow, tube-like organs.
Define hematopoiesis.
What is the formation of blood cells and platelets.
The prefix anti- means?
What is against.
Which region of the body/abdomen contains the liver, gallbladder, and right kidney?
What is the right hypochondriac
A fracture that is caused by a twisting force and has fracture ends that are short and run at an slanted angle across the bone is known as?
What is an oblique fracture.
The point where muscle attaches to stationary bone is called?
What is the origin.
What type of osteocyte breaks down old osteocytes?
What are osteoclasts.
If a patient has had an arthrotomy, what was done to the joint?
What is incised.
What is the suffix that means cutting/incision?
What is -tomy
What is the medical term for an exaggerated curve in the thoracic region of the spine and is also known as "hunchback"?
What is kyphosis.
The point where muscle attaches to moving bone is called?
What is the insertion.
The gallbladder is found in what region?
An instrument that records the electrical activity of the heart is called a/an?
The type of disorder that occurs when the immune system does not recognize it's own antigens and starts attacking itself is called?
What is autoimmune.
What category of bone are the cranium, sternum, and ribs?
What is flat
Name the muscle of the head that raises the eyebrows.
What is the frontalis.
The appendix is found in what region?
What is the right iliac region.
The medical term for a surgical repair of the nose is?
What is rhinoplasty.
What separates the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
What is the diaphragm.
What is the medical term for the disorder where bone has become excessively porous and is susceptible to pathological fractures from routine movement?
What is osteoporosis.
Name the muscle that abducts the upper arm.
What is the deltoid.
What 2 things are required for muscle contraction?
What is calcium and energy/ATP
The medical term for surgical repair of the external ear is?
What is otoplasty
Which cavity contains the thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities?
What is the anterior cavity.
Name the 3 interrelated parts that make up the musculoskeletal system?
What are bones, joints and muscles.
Name the muscle that rotates and flexes the head and neck.
What is the sternocleidomastoid
What will cause the muscle to relax?
When ACh is inactived by acetylcholinesterase.