Exam 2: The Body in Health and Disease

A ________ is any deviation from health that is experienced or felt by the patient.

Neoplastic diseases are caused by the growth of a benign (not cancerous)or a malignant (cancerous)tumor.

The coronal plane is a horizontal plane that divides the body into top and bottom sections.

The medical specialty that is the study of medicines and drugs.

During the course of a disease,the symptoms may be ________ (sudden in nature and severe in intensity).

Which of the following words is MISSPELLED?

________ diseases are caused by a lack of nutritious food,insufficient amounts of food,or an inability to utilize the nutrients in food.

In the body systems approach,the human body can be studied according to its structures and how they function together in a system.

Structures that are intracellular are located ________ the cell.

If an infant is born with cerebral palsy,this disease is categorized as ________.

A ________ is a physician specialist who treats diseases of the heart and blood vessels.

Cavity that is surrounded by the breast bone (sternum),ribs,and bones of the spine.

The combining form extern/o- means ________.

In the medical words diagnosis and prognosis,the combining form gnos/o- means ________.

When the human body is in the anatomical position,it can be studied by dividing it with planes.

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

A person who receives a doctoral degree in pharmacology would have the abbreviation ________ after his or her name.

The cavity that contains the stomach and intestines and the cavity that contains the hip bones are often referred to as the ________ cavity because they form one continuous cavity that has no dividing structure in it.

The combining form proxim/o- means "near the center;near the point of origin."

A quadrant is a hollow space surrounded by bones or muscles.