Valium is an example of a ____________________ drug, which means it has an effect on the mind.
Psychotropic
Two words that mean “paralysis of the iris” are ____________________ and ____________________.
Iridoparalysis, Iridoplegia
A tumor of a sympathetic nerve is called sympathectomy.
Sympathoma
A rod-shaped bacterium is called a __________________
Bacillus
The prefix post- means:
- behind or after
- before or forward
- in front of
- to undo
The combining form that means “bloody” is ____________________.
Sanguino
Medical terms that begin with prefixes are often ____________________.
Adjectives
The combining form hist/o refers to blood vessels.
The word root rhin is used in terms that refer to the ____________________.
Nose
The word that means “pertaining to after a fever” is:
- postfebrile
- postnatal
- postcoital
- postpartum
The verb for putting drops of medicine into the eye is to ____________________.
Instill
A spasm of the larynx is called a(n) ____________________.
Laryngospasm
The suffix used for “instrument used to measure” is -meter.
True
The insulin used by people with diabetes is called ____________________ because it comes from outside the body.
Exogenous
Which of the following groups of words shows the correct order of the respiratory structures through which air flows after entering the nose or mouth?
- pharynx, bronchi, trachea, lungs, alveoli
- trachea, pharynx, bronchi, alveoli, lungs
- pharynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs, alveoli
- pharynx, trachea, alveoli, bronchi, lungs
A baseball player who gets hit in the nose with a ball is likely to have a bloody nose, or __________.
Epistaxis
Forming a surgical opening between the stomach and the duodenum is called a(n) ____________________.
Gastroduodenostomy
The combining form for stone or calculus is lith/o.
True
A poison produced by a high fever is a ____________________.
Pyrotoxin
Adhesion of two or more digits making them stiff is referred to as:
- ankylocheilia
- ankyloproctia
- ankyloglossia
- ankylodactylia
____________________. means “pertaining to the acromion and clavicle.”
Acromioclavicular
A specialist who studies or treats tumors is called a(n) ____________________.
Oncologist
Symptoms are indications of disease as observed by a health care professional.
Signs
Drugs that activate receptors in the adrenal glands are called ____________________ drugs.
Adrenergic
Pus formation in the trachea is:
- tracheorrhagia
- tracheotomy
- endotracheal
- tracheopyosis