Med Term I Review Game Units 45

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Med Term IReview GameUnits 4-5

• Orthopedics, osteopathy, body regions, pathology,
  ENT

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Orthopedics

• Osteopathy literally means?
• Answer disease of the bones
• Softening of the bones is this word?
• Answer osteomalacia
• Inflammation of the bones is this word?
• Answer osteitis
• Many factors cause these maladies, the study of
  the causes of disease is called?
• Answer etiology

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More Ortho

• A physician who specializes in the skeleton and
  its relationship to disease is?
• Answer Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.)
• A benign bone tumor would be called a?
• Answer osteoma
• A malignant bone tumor would be called?
• Answer osteosarcoma
• The combining form for joint would be?
• Answer arthr/o

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More ortho

• A loss of bone density causing porous bones?
• Answer osteoporosis
• A loss of bone mass creating weak bones is
  called?
• Answer osteopenia
• The combining form for the spinal cord or bone
  marrow?
• Answer myel/o
• The suffix for development is?
• Answer -plasia

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Still More ortho

• And a prefix meaning bad or difficult?
• Answer dys-
• So make a word meaning bad development of the
  spinal cord?
• Answer myelodysplasia
• An instrument used to look into a body area is
  called a?
• Answer scope
• The process of using a microscope to look into a
  body or body part is called?
• Answer -scopy

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A few more terms

• So a process whereby you look into a joint with
  an instrument would be called?
• Answer arthroscopy
• We talked about cell development being plasia
  so over and underdevelopment would be?
• Answer hyperplasia and hypoplasia
• Failure to develop at all, or the absence of
  development is?
• Answer aplasia
• A change in the size of cells or body part is
  denoted by the suffix?
• Answer -trophy
• The original growth of cells and organs is this
  suffix?
• Answer -genesis
• A suffix which means repair or reconstruction is?
• Answer plasty

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More osteopathy

• These are three combining forms for tendon?
• Answer ten/o, tend/o, and tendin/o
• A bursa is a small cushion sac within the joint
  the combining form for bursa is?
• Answer burs/o
• The combining form for cartilage is?
• Answer chondr/o
• The combining form for ribs is?
• Answer cost/o
• So form a word which means inflammation in the
  cartilage around the ribs?
• Answer costochondritis

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Osteopathy

• The prefix inter- means what?
• Answer between
• So the word intercostal means what?
• Answer between the ribs
• The combining form dent/o means what?
• Answer teeth
• The combining form orthodont/o means?
• Answer straight teeth
• The prefix peri- means what?
• Answer around or near

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More body stuff

• Using what you know what is tooth pain?
• Answer dentalgia
• If orthodontist means one who straightens teeth,
  what does orthopedist mean?
• Answer one who straightens bones
• From top down and left to right name the 9
  regions of the abdomino-thoracic cavity?
• Answer left and right hypochondriac with
  epigastric region in the middle, then left and
  right lumbar with the umbilical in the middle,
  and finally the left and right iliac with the
  hypogastric in the middle.

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Body regions

• The prefix supra- means?
• Answer above
• Thorac/o and lumb/o are combining forms for what
  body areas?
• Answer chest and lower back
• Pelv/i is the combining form for pelvic the
  lower part of this region is the bone with this
  combining form?
• Answer pub/o
• The three major spinal areas are lumbar,
  thoracic, and this one?
• Answer cervical

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More body

• Ab- is a prefix meaning this?
• Answer away from
• Ad- is a prefix meaning this?
• Answer toward
• So Adduction and Abduction mean what?
• Answer toward and away from the bodys midline
• Answer The abdominal cavity is split into four
  regions which are?
• Answer LUQ left upper quadrant, RUQ right upper
  quadrant, LLQ left lower quadrant, RLQ right
  lower quadrant the umbilicus is the center
  point.

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More body area

• The combining form for the bladder is?
• Answer cyst/o
• Body cavities found in the head are?
• Answer orbital, buccal, nasal, cranial
• Body cavity in the chest?
• Answer thoracic
• Two body cavities in the abdomen?
• Answer abdominal and pelvic
• The front body cavities are called?
• Answer Ventral cavities

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Pathology

• The major disease causing organisms come in these
  four groups?
• Answer bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites
• The three major types of bacteria are?
• Answer Cocci, Bacilli, Spirochete
• Bacteria in a chain have which prefix?
• Answer strepto-
• Bacteria in a bunch (like grapes) are?
• Answer staphylo-

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More Path.

• A two celled bacteria uses this prefix?
• Answer diplo-
• The combining form for pus is?
• Answer py/o
• Sooo an accumulation of pus in the chest would
  be?
• Answer pyothorax
• A discharge or flow has the suffix?
• Answer -rrhea
• Sooo a discharge of pus would be?
• Answer pyorrhea

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Ear stuff.

• The combining form for ear is?
• Answer ot/o
• So inflammation of the ear would be?
• Answer otitis
• Pain in the ear would be?
• answer otalgia
• Discharge from the ear would be?
• Answer otorrhea
• An instrument to look into the ear would be?
• Answer otoscope

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More ear stuff

• The combining form for ear drum is?
• Answer tympan/o
• The combining form for hearing is?
• Answer audi/o
• Soooo. A measurement for hearing is?
• Answer audiometry
• Remember that the prefixes a- or an- mean?
• Answer not, or lack of
• Two new prefixes are brady- and tachy- which
  mean?
• Answer slow and fast

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Noses up please

• The combining form for nose is?
• Answer rhin/o
• Sooo. Surgical repair of the nose is?
• Answer rhinoplasty
• The combining form for stone or calculus is?
• Answer lith/o
• Sooo a stone in the nose would be called?
• Answer rhinolith

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More disease stuff

• The combining form for gall or bile is?
• Answer chol/e
• A gallstone would then be called?
• Answer cholelith
• The suffix iasis means what?
• Answer infestation or disease state
• The combining form for duodenum is?
• Answer duoden/o

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Still more disease..

• The combining form for pancreas is?
• Answer pancreat/o
• What about the liver?
• Answer hepat/o
• And the gallbladder?
• Answer cholecyst/o
• The word tachycardia would mean what?
• Answer fast heart

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More prefixes

• The combining form pne/o means what?
• Answer breathing
• So the word apnea means what?
• Answer absence of breathing
• The prefixes macro and micro mean what?
• Answer large and small
• The combining form for a digit, finger or toe
  would be this?
• Answer dactyl/o
• The prefix for with or together is syn- so two
  fingers grown together would be this?
• Answer syndactylism

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A few more

• The combining form for work is erg/o.. So the
  word for working together is?
• Answer synergy
• The combining form for running is drom/o so the
  word syndrome means?
• Answer running together (symptoms)
• And prodrome means?
• Answer running before or ahead of (symptoms)
• Finally the prefix for many would be?
• Answer poly