Directions: Choose
the best term to complete each of the sentences below
1.
Sense organs and some glands are formed from the ___.
2.
Organs, such as the stomach and small intestine, arise
from the ___.
3.
Muscles are formed by the ___.
4.
___ means forward bending.
5.
___ means diagnosing one’s own diseases.
6.
The medical term for biting oneself is ___.
7.
A woman who has borne more than one child is referred to
as a ___.
8.
A woman who has never borne a child is referred to as a
___.
9.
A woman having her first child is referred to as a ___.
10.
___ means taking a baby away from the breast.
11.
“Baby teeth” that fall from a child’s mouth are called
___ teeth.
12.
When calcium is removed from the bones, there is less
calcium than formerly. This process is called ___.
13.
___ means the taking out (from) any part of the body.
14.
Excretion is the process of ___ a substance.
15.
___ means seizure or attacks of sleep, i.e. a person is
absolutely unable to stay awake.
16.
Something that is isometric is of ___ dimensions.
17.
An ___ solution has the same osmotic pressure as red
blood cells.
18.
___ means that the pupils of the eyes are of unequal
size.
19.
The medical term for inflammation around a gland is ___.
20.
___ means limited in space (as though a line were drawn
around it).
21.
Of the two prefixes that mean through, the one that you
would expect to use more often in medical terminology is ___.
22.
___ means puncturing through.
23.
A ___ is a parasite that lives on dead organic matter.
24.
The medical term ___ means fingers or toes of equal
length.
25.
An abnormal condition resulting in unequal size of red
blood cells is ___.