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What is included in the appendicular skeleton? - Correct Answer The extremities Which muscle trait is the ability to be stretched and lengthened? - Correct Answer Extensibility Which layer of the heart contains a lubricating fluid that reduces friction as the heart beats? - Correct Answer Pericardium All med terms have prefixes - Correct Answer false What type of gland is the pancreas? - Correct Answer Exocrine What is the term for the ability of muscles to be slightly contracted at all times to be ready to act? - Correct Answer Muscle Tone Which of these word roots indicates blood? - Correct Answer Hemat What is the name of the male gonads? - Correct Answer Testes What does the prefix super- refer to? - Correct Answer Over or above What occurs in the capillaries of the alveoli? - Correct Answer Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged Which of these conditions is the collapse of part or all of a lung? - Correct Answer Atelectasis What does the suffix -tomy refer to? - Correct Answer Cutting 1 / 2
How many chambers are in the heart? - Correct Answer 4 Which of the following is a function of the skeletal system? - Correct Answer Produces blood cells What is the name of the bone for the lower jaw? - Correct Answer Mandible What is the slow, wavelike contraction that moves food through the digestive system? - Correct Answer Peristalsis Which of these prefixes indicates new? - Correct Answer neo- What part of long bones stores bone marrow? - Correct Answer Medullary Canal In which type of diabetes does the pancreas produce some insulin, but not enough of it? - Correct Answer Type 2 What type of tumor is called cancer? - Correct Answer malignant Iodine is important for the thyroid gland to function properly. - Correct Answer true How many regions can the abdominal region be divided into? - Correct Answer 9 and 4 What is the benefit of the scrotum being located outside of the body? - Correct Answer it maintains a lower temp for sperm development Which of the following is NOT true of medical terms? - Correct Answer med terms must be built from common word parts What is the name of the cells that are used for vision in the dark or dim light? - Correct Answer rods
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