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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
1. What is studied in pharmacology?
a. Drugs and their effects on living organisms
b. The eye, ear, nose, and throat
c. The stomach and intestines
d. Tumors
ANS: A REF: p. 25
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
2. What does the term rheumatism mean?
a. Disorders of the ear, nose, and throat.
b. Method of sorting according to the patients’ needs for care.
c. Pertaining to the eyes.
d. 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
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3. The term orthopedist refers tU
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the folloOwing?
a. A branch of dentistry
b. A medical specialist
c. A medical specialty
d. A type of dentist
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
4. The term neurologist means which of the following?
a. A branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system
b. A nerve cell
c. A specialist in disorders of the nervous system
d. 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
5. Of clinical psychology, physiologic psychology, and psychiatry, which is a medical
specialty that deals with mental or emotional disorders?
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, a. Clinical psychology only
b. Clinical psychology and psychiatry
c. Physiologic psychology only
d. Psychiatry only
ANS: D REF: p. 19
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
6. Which of the following words is not related to old age or elderly individuals?
a. Geriatric
b. Gerontologist
c. Gerontology
d. 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
7. What is studied in oncology?
a. Drugs and their effects on living organisms
b. The eye, ear, nose, and throat
c. The stomach and intestines
d. 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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8. What is the term for an agent that is used to produce loss of feeling?
a. Anesthesia
b. Anesthetic
c. Anesthetist
d. 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
9. Which of the following is true of emergency medicine?
a. It is the study of drugs and their effects on living things.
b. Its primary concern is the treatment of disorders in which breathing is impaired.
c. Its primary concern is using clinical laboratory procedures to diagnose disease.
d. 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
10. Which of the following is true of preventive medicine?
a. It is the study of drugs and their effects on living things.
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, b. Its primary concern is preventing the occurrence of both mental and physical
illness and disease.
c. Its primary concern is using clinical laboratory procedures to diagnose disease.
d. Its primary concern is restoring one’s ability to live and work as normally as
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
11. What does therapy mean?
a. Condition
b. Department
c. Disease
d. 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
12. Which term means pertaining to the heart?
a. Cardiac
b. Gastric
c. Roentgenology
d. Otic
ANS: A REFN: UpR S5INGTB.COM
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OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
13. Which of the following is a specialist who treats diseases of the urinary tract?
a. Enterologist
b. Gastroenterologist
c. Uremologist
d. 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
14. What is an epidemic?
a. Operations that involve using a microscope while performing surgery
b. A disease that attacks several people in a region at the same time
c. Surgery performed for the purpose of diagnosis
d. Surgery performed postmortem
ANS: B REF: p. 21
OBJ: Identify the specialty associated with various medical conditions.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
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, 15. Which of the following is not a meaning of the term medicine?
a. A drug
b. A remedy for illness
c. The art and science of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease
d. 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
16. Which term describes the viewpoint that considers the human as a functioning whole?
a. Dietetic
b. Epidemic
c. Holistic
d. 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
17. Which statement is true of an ophthalmic medication?
a. It is to be inhaled.
b. It is to be swallowed.
c. It is to be used in the ear.
d. It is to be used in the eye.
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OBJ: Write the meanings of selected word parts and use them to build and analyze terms.
TOP: Medicine and Its Specialties
18. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream are called what type of glands?
a. Endogenous
b. Endocrine
c. Endoenzymatic
d. 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
19. Which term means pertaining to the skin?
a. Dental
b. Dermal
c. Endocrine
d. 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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