Exam 2: The Body in Health and Disease

The medical specialty ________ is concerned with diseases of the blood.

What type of patients are in a hospice and what services does the hospice provide?

Using the coronal plane to divide the body,the back of the body is the posterior or ________ section.

The coronal plane is named for a ________.

The category of ________ diseases includes diseases such as cleft lip and cerebral palsy.

________ are paired structures within the nucleus of a cell that contain DNA.

An example of an iatrogenic disease would be surgery performed on the wrong leg.

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

A ________ is a temporary improvement in the symptoms and signs of a disease without the underlying disease being cured.

Which syllable is the primary accented syllable in the pronunciation of the medical word gastroenterology (gas-troh-en-ter-aw-loh-jee)?

The combining form gynec/o- as found in the medical specialty gynecology means "female;________."

The cause or origin of any disease is ________.

The combining form super/o- means "above."

Lying face down is being in the dorsal or dorsal supine position.

The combining form congenit/o- means "present at ________."

Which of the following is NOT an approach for studying the body?

Someone who is studying the medical specialty of ________ is studying newborn babies.

The combining form ancill/o- means ________.

The combining form physi/o- means "physical function."

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