Medical Terminology Final Exam

Basic unit of all living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells, which vary in size and shape according to function

Forms the boundary of the cell

Gel Like fluid inside the cell.

Largest structure within the cell, usually spherical and centrally located. It contains chromosomes for cellular reproduction and is the control center of the cell.

Located in the nucleous of the cell. There are 46 chromosomes in all normal human cells, with the exception of mature cell sex cells, witch only have 23.

Regions with in the chromosomes

Comprises each gene

Group of similar cells to perform a specific function

Composed of cells that have a special ability to contract, usually producing movement.

Found in the nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Connects, supports, and penetrates, and encases various body structures.

Major covering of the body's external surface

Two or more kinds of tissues working together to perform a function.

Group of Organs working together to perform complex body functions.

Composed of skin, nails, and glands.

Composed of the nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, and lungs.

Composed of kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra.

Female reproductive system is composed of overaries, uterine tube, uterus, vagina, and mammery glands.

Composed of heart and blood vessels.

Composed of vessels, ducts, nodes, and organs.

Composed of gastrointestinal tract which includes esophagus, stomach, L and S intestines plus accessory organs.

Muscles, bones, and joints.

Composed of brain, spinal cord, and nerves.

Composed of glands that secrete hormones.

Space inside the skull containing the brain

Space inside the spinal column containing spinal cord

Space containing the heart, aorta , lungs, esophagus, trachea and bronchi

Space containing the stomach intestines kidneys liver gallbladder pancreas spleen and ureters.

Space containing the urinary bladder, certain reproductive organs, parts of the small and large intestine, and rectum

Both the pelvic and adominal cavities

gland

Cell

epithelium

fiber

tissue

nucleus

Fat

muscle

nerve

organ

flesh, connective tissue

system

internal organ

cancer

cause

knowledge

physician, medicine

smooth

tumor

disease

rod shapped

body

Green

Color

Blue

red

white

Black

Yellow

Through

Painful, Adnormal, Difficult, Labored

Above

Below

After, Beyond, Change

New

Before

Pertaining too

Cell

Substance or agent that produces or causes

Producing, Causing

one who studies or treats

study of

resembling

tumor, swelling

Adnormal condition

disease

Condition of Formation

Growth, Substance

Maligent Tumor

State of

control, stop, standing

cancerous tumor of glandular tissue

tumor composed of glandular tissue

cancerous tumor

tumor of green color

tumor composed of epithelium

Tumor composed of fiber

malignat tumor composed of fiber

Tumor composed of smooth muscle

malignant tumor composed of smooth muscle

tumor composed of fat

new growth

tumor composed of the nerve

tumor of connected tissue

producing cells

resembling a cell

study of cells

adnormal substance

pertaining to the epithlium

pertaining to cancer

substances that causes cancer

complete knowlege

new disease

resembling an organ

adnormal condition of yellow

Not malignant

cancer in the early stage before invading surrounding tissue

treatment of cancer through drugs

enclosed in a capsule

increase in the severity of disease or it's symptoms

pertaining to disease of unknown origin

• response to injury due to distruction of tissue,
• redness, swelling, heat and pain

in glass

in the living body

tending to be become progressivily worse.

Treatment of cancer with radioactive substance

improvement, or absence signs of disease

Carcinoma

Chemothearpy

Diagnosis

Metaastasis

Prognosis

Red blood count

Radiation Thereapy

White Blood Count

front

tail

head

away

back

below

side

middle

back, behind

near

above

belly

two

one

toward

pertaining too

toward the tail ( downward)

toward the side

pertaining to one side

pertaining to the middle and to the side

pertaining to near ( to point of attachment to a body part)

pertaining to above

pertaining to the head

pertaining to the back

pertaining to the belly

pertaining to the back and the front

VF passing through the body from side to side diving the body into anterior and posterior portions

vertical field running through the body from front to back at the midline

VFRTTB from front to back, diving the body into unequal left and right sides

VFRTTB from front to back diving the body into left and right sides

horizontal field divding the body into superior and inferior portions