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Question N1 What does the prefix peri mean?

Answer: around

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Question N2 What does the prefix pre mean?

Answer: before

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Question N3 What does the suffix -dynia mean?

Answer: pain

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Question N4 What does the suffix -genesisa mean?

Answer: origin

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Question N5 What does the suffix –ic mean?

Answer: adjective suffix

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Question N6 What does this suffix –ectasis mean?

Answer: expansion

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Question N7 What does this suffix –edema mean?

Answer: excessive fluid

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Question N8 What does this prefix infra- mean?

Answer: inside/below

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Question N9 What does this prefix inter- mean?

Answer: between

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Question N10 What does this suffix –scopy mean?

Answer: act of viewing

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Question N11 What does this suffix –tome mean?

Answer: instrument for cutting

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Question N12 What does this suffix –emesis mean?

Answer: vomiting

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Question N13 What does this suffix –emia mean?

Answer: abnormal formation

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Question N14 …………. an illness in which waste matter is emptied from the bowels much more
frequently than normal, and in liquid form.

Answer: Diarrhea

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Question N15 …………. stools that are large in volumex

Answer: Bulky

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Question N16 …………the organ in women and female animals in which babies or young animals
develop before they are born.

Answer: Womb

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Question N17 ………….. normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman's monthly cycle.

Answer: Menstruation

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Question N18 A nurse who specializes in health promotion is a ---------.

Answer: health visitor

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Question N19 ----------- help people to move by getting them to do exercises or by treating their body
with heat and massage.

Answer: Physiotherapists

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Question N20 The anatomical term “axilla” means:

Answer: armpit
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Question N21 The anatomical term “mandible” means:

Answer: jaw

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Question N22 What does pneumolith mean?

Answer: stone in the lung

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Question N23 What does osteomalacia mean?

Answer: softening of the bones

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Question N24 What does gastromegaly mean?

Answer: enlargement

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Question N25 What does osteoporosis mean?

Answer: condition of porous bones

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Question N26 A TIA involves primarily the nervous system and which other body system?

Answer: cardiovascular

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Question N27 What is another name for an absence seizure?

Answer: syncope

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Question N28 Of the following choices, which is the best place to perform an LP?

Answer: between L3 and L4

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Question N29 This is given to reduce seizure activity.

Answer: anticonvulsant agent

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Question N30 A craniectomy is an ________________________.

Answer: excision of part of the skull

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Question N31 What does this word part onych/o mean?

Answer: nail

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Question N32 What does this word part pil/o mean?

Answer: hair

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Question N33 What does this word part seb/o mean?

Answer: sebum

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Question N34 What does this word part sudor/o mean?

Answer: sweat

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Question N35 What does this word part albin/o mean?

Answer: white

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Question N36 ………… a serious disease, caused by bacteria, in which swellings appear on the lungs
and other parts of the body.

Answer: Tuberculosis

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Question N37 ………… a serious disease, caused by bacteria, in which swellings appear on the lungs
and other parts of the body.

Answer: Tuberculosis

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Question N38 VZV…….

Answer: Varicella zoster virus

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Question N39 ……………a brain condition, mostly affecting older people, in which a person has
difficulties with memory, thinking, control of the body, etc. that are severe enough to affect daily life.

Answer: Dementia

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Question N40 ………….the habit of taking too much of a harmful drug or drinking too much alcohol

Answer: Substance abuse

Question N41 An antipruritic reduces _____________________.

Answer: itching

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Question N42 An antibiotic kills _____________________.

Answer: bacteria

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Question N43 The term cyst comes from the Greek word kystis meaning _____________________.

Answer: bladder

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Question N44 Corium is a synonym for _____________________.

Answer: dermis

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Question N45 Diaphoresis is a synonym for _____________________.

Answer: perspiration

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Question N46 A _____________________ is a smooth, rounded, slightly elevated area often

Answer: wheal

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Question N47 _____________________ is characterized by eruption of pale red elevated patches.

Answer: Urticaria

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Question N48 _____________________ is an inflammatory condition of the skin characterized by

Answer: Eczema

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Question N49 The removal of necrotic (dead) tissue from a wound or burn is called
_____________________.

Answer: debridement

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Question N50 A chronic skin disease characterized by itchy, silvery-scaled patches is
_____________________.

Answer: psoriasis

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Question N51 What does this word part arachn/o mean?

Answer: water

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Question N52 A ___________________ is the connective tissue connecting bones and cartilage.

Answer: ligament

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Question N53 An ___________________ surgeon is a physician who specializes in the

Answer: orthopedic

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Question N54 ___________________ describes paralysis of all four extremities.

Answer: Quadriplegia

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Question N55 Cardiac muscle is considered lightly ___________________, and skeletal muscle is
considered heavily ___________________.

Answer: striated

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Question N56 The heel bone is the __________________.

Answer: calcaneus

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Question N57 The bones of the spine are the __________________.

Answer: vertebrae

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Question N58 The shoulder blade is the __________________.

Answer: scapula

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Question N59 Which term does not belong with the others?

Answer: diaphysis
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Question N60 Which term does not belong with the others?

Answer: fibula

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Question N61 Define the following medical term-oedema

Answer:

it is a condition of excess of fluid build up in the body

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Question N62 Define the following medical term: Anaemia -

Answer:

decrease of red blood cells or decrease in level of hemoglobin in the blood is called anemia

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Question N63 Define the following medical term: Pernicious anaemia -

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it is an anemia caused due to the lack of absorption of vit B12

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Question N64 Define the following medical term: Jaundice –

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it is a disease caused due to the damage of liver which turns our skin into yellowish colour

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Question N65 Define the following medical term: Cystitis -

Answer:

inflammation of the bladder

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Question N66 Define the following medical term: Hepatitis -

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inflammation of liver

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Question N67 Define the following medical term: Greenstick fracture -

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it is a fracture in which the bone breaks or cracks instead of complete breakdown of bone into two
pieces is called greenstick fracture

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Question N68 Define the following medical term: Displaced fracture –

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It is a fracture in which a bone is breakdown into two pieces separately and not in alignment way

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Question N69 Define the following medical term: Pathological fracture –

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a breakdown of bone caused by a disease or often by cancer is called pathological fracture

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Question N70 Define the following medical term: Stress fracture -

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a tiny fractures caused due to acute traumas

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