Exam 2: The Body in Health and Disease

The suffix -ics in the medical word orthopedics means "knowledge;________."

Structures below the surface and inside the body are superficial or internal structures.

Someone who is studying neonatology is studying ________ with medical problems.

A cell contains 24 chromosomes (12 pairs).

The medical word endocrinology contains three word parts: a prefix,a combining form,and a suffix.

An ophthalmologist is a physician who treats the ________.

Describe the anatomical position.

Persons in a long-term care facility are known as ________.

Moving toward the head is moving in a superior direction or superiorly.This is also known as the ________ direction.

The combining form infect/o- means "infection."

Two regions on the abdomen are the left and right hypochondriac regions.The combining form chondr/o- means "________."

The combining form ped/o-,as found in the medical word orthopedics,means "child."

A syndrome is a set of signs and symptoms associated with,and characteristic of,one particular disease.

In the medical word palliative,the combining form means ________.

The abbreviation for symptoms is ________.

Which syllable is the primary accented syllable in the pronunciation of the medical specialty oncology (ong-kaw-loh-jee)?

In the word nutritional,the combining form means ________.

A person who studies the blood studies hematology.

The spinal cavity or spinal canal is a continuation of the cranial cavity as it travels down the midline of the back.

Neoplastic diseases are ________.