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Building a Medical Vocabulary 10th Edition Leonard Test Bank
Chapter 01: Building Medical Terms Starting With Medical Specialties
Leonard: Building a Medical Vocabulary, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- What is studied in pharmacology?
- Drugs and their effects on living organisms
- The eye, ear, nose, and throat
- The stomach and intestines
- Tumors
ANS: A REF: p. 25
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- What does the term rheumatism mean?
- Disorders of the ear, nose, and throat.
- Method of sorting according to the patients’ needs for care.
- Pertaining to the eyes.
- Disorders marked by inflammation, degeneration, or other problems of the
connective tissues.ANS: D REF: p. 19 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- The term orthopedist refers
- A branch of dentistry
- A medical specialist
- A medical specialty
- A type of dentist
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ANS: B REF: p. 14 OBJ: Match the terms for medical specialists with the areas in which they specialize, or write the medical specialties when given the area of expertise.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- The term neurologist means which of the following?
- A branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system
- A nerve cell
- A specialist in disorders of the nervous system
- Surgery that deals with the nervous system
ANS: C REF: p. 19 OBJ: Match the terms for medical specialists with the areas in which they specialize, or write the medical specialties when given the area of expertise.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Of clinical psychology, physiologic psychology, and psychiatry, which is a medical
specialty that deals with mental or emotional disorders? 1 / 4
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- Clinical psychology only
- Clinical psychology and psychiatry
- Physiologic psychology only
- Psychiatry only
ANS: D REF: p. 19
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which of the following words is not related to old age or elderly individuals?
- Geriatric
- Gerontologist
- Gerontology
- Gynecologist
ANS: D REF: p. 17 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- What is studied in oncology?
- Drugs and their effects on living organisms
- The eye, ear, nose, and throat
- The stomach and intestines
- Tumors
ANS: D REF: p. 18 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its SpNeU
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- What is the term for an agent that is used to produce loss of feeling?
- Anesthesia
- Anesthetic
- Anesthetist
- Esthetic
ANS: B REF: p. 17 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which of the following is true of emergency medicine?
- It is the study of drugs and their effects on living things.
- Its primary concern is the treatment of disorders in which breathing is impaired.
- Its primary concern is using clinical laboratory procedures to diagnose disease.
- It deals with very ill or injured patients who require immediate medical treatment.
ANS: D REF: p. 21
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which of the following is true of preventive medicine?
- It is the study of drugs and their effects on living things. 2 / 4
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- Its primary concern is preventing the occurrence of both mental and physical
- Its primary concern is using clinical laboratory procedures to diagnose disease.
- Its primary concern is restoring one’s ability to live and work as normally as
illness and disease.
possible.ANS: B REF: p. 21 OBJ: Match the terms for medical specialists with the areas in which they specialize, or write the medical specialties when given the area of expertise.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- What does therapy mean?
- Condition
- Department
- Disease
- Treatment
ANS: D REF: p. 22 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which term means pertaining to the heart?
- Cardiac
- Gastric
- Roentgenology
- Otic
ANS: A REFN:
U pR. 1S 5I N G T B.C O M OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which of the following is a specialist who treats diseases of the urinary tract?
- Enterologist
- Gastroenterologist
- Uremologist
- Urologist
ANS: D REF: p. 18 OBJ: Match the terms for medical specialists with the areas in which they specialize, or write the medical specialties when given the area of expertise.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- What is an epidemic?
- Operations that involve using a microscope while performing surgery
- A disease that attacks several people in a region at the same time
- Surgery performed for the purpose of diagnosis
- Surgery performed postmortem
ANS: B REF: p. 21
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties 3 / 4
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- Which of the following is not a meaning of the term medicine?
- A drug
- A remedy for illness
- The art and science of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease
- The factors that determine the distribution of disease
ANS: D REF: p. 13 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which term describes the viewpoint that considers the human as a functioning whole?
- Dietetic
- Epidemic
- Holistic
- Pathologic
ANS: C REF: p. 14 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which statement is true of an ophthalmic medication?
- It is to be inhaled.
- It is to be swallowed.
- It is to be used in the ear.
- It is to be used in the eye.
ANS: D REFN:
U pR. 1S 5I N G T B.C O M OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream are called what type of glands?
- Endogenous
- Endocrine
- Endoenzymatic
- Endotherapeutic
ANS: B REF: p. 16 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
- Which term means pertaining to the skin?
- Dental
- Dermal
- Endocrine
- Urinary
ANS: B REF: p. 15 OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
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