Exam 2: The Body in Health and Disease

The opposite direction from distal is ________.

The abbreviation GYN stands for ________.

Examples of a hereditary disease are hemophilia and sickle-cell disease.

An ________ is a physician who specializes in ENT medicine.

Medical specialty that deals with the blood.

Which of the following words is spelled CORRECTLY?

The combining form eti/o- means "cause of disease."

The combining form surg/o- means ________.

All of the following are regions on the abdominopelvic surface EXCEPT ________.

Immunology involves the study of the lymphatic system and immune response.

Moving from the body toward the head is moving in an inferior direction or inferiorly.

The combining form anter/o- means ________.

The patient has had mild joint pain for the past three years without any increase in severity.This means that her symptoms are ________.

An otolaryngologist specializes in ENT medicine.

The combining form spir/o- means ________.

The combining form medic/o- means "medicine;________."

A specialist in gastroenterology studies the ________ (and related structures).

In the medical word skeletal,the combining form means "________."

Diseases that are categorized as ________ have no identifiable cause.

The combining form later/o- means ________.