Blood, Germs, Cells, Tumors & Disease

Question 1

What are red blood cells called?

Answer 1

Erythrocytes

Question 2

What are white blood cells called?

Answer 2

Leukocytes

Question 3

What is an elevation in white blood cells called?

Answer 3

Leukocytosis

Question 4

What is an immature, non-nucleated erythrocyte that is characterized by polychromasia (Wright’s stain) or a
meshlike pattern of threads (new methylene blue stain) called?

Answer 4

Eticulocyte

Question 5

What is an immature polymorphonuclear leukocyte is called?

Answer 5

Band Cell

Question 6

Where are lacteals located?

Answer 6

Small Intestine

Question 7

What are T cells responsible for?

Answer 7

Cell-Mediated Immunity

Question 8

What are B cells responsible for?

Answer 8

Humoral Immunity

Question 9

What organ is used for red blood cell storage?

Answer 9

Spleen

Question 10

What is a malignant tumor that developed from epithelial tissue is known as?

Answer 10

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Question 11

What is a hemangiosarcoma?

Answer 11

Malignant Tumor of Vascular Tissue

Question 12

What are malignant neoplasms arising from connective tissue called?

Answer 12

Sarcomas

Question 13

When a growth does not have well-defined borders, it is described as being what?

Answer 13

Invasive

Question 14

What is the term used for deficiency in white blood cells?

Answer 14

Leukopenia

Question 15

What is hemolysis?

Answer 15

Breakdown of Blood Cells

Question 16

What does an anticoagulant do?

Answer 16

Prevents Clotting

Question 17

What does macrocytic mean?

Answer 17

Larger than normal red blood cells

Question 18

What term is used to describe the condition in which microorganisms and their toxins are present in the
blood?

Answer 18

Septicemia

Question 19

The name for a disease-fighting protein produced by the body in response to a particular foreign substance
is what?

Answer 19

Antibody

Question 20

What does does debilitated mean?

Answer 20

Weakened

Question 21

What is the term used for ability to cause disease dues to debilitation when disease would not be produced normally?

Answer 21

Opportunistic

Question 22

What is the term used for an administration of antigen to stimulate a protective immune response against a specific infectious agent?

Answer 22

Vaccination/Immunization

Question 23

What does multiplication mean in medical terms?

Answer 23

Reproduction

Question 24

What is another term for not susceptible?

Answer 24

Resistant

Question 25

What is a genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring called?

Answer 25

Heredity

Question 26

What is the term used for slowing or stopping?

Answer 26

Inhibit

Question 27

What is the preparation of pathogen (live, weakened, or killed) or a portion of pathogen that is administered to stimulate a protective immune response against the pathogen?

Answer 27

Vaccine

Question 28

Is benign cancerous?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Is malignant cancerous?

Answer 29

Yes

Question 30

What is neoplasm?

Answer 30

Abnormal new growth of tissue

Question 31

What is the term used for a pathogenic growth distant from its primary disease site?

Answer 31

Metastasis

Question 32

What is splenomegaly?

Answer 32

Enlarged Spleen

Question 33

What is the term used for accumulation of fluid in the intercellular space?

Answer 33

Edema

Question 34

What is the word used for a condition of eating cells?

Answer 34

Phagocytosis

Question 35

What is the term used for an abnormal increase in white blood cells?

Answer 35

Leukocytosis

Question 36

What is the term used for an abnormal decrease in white blood cells?

Answer 36

Leukopenia

Question 37

What is the term used for no cuts, scrapes, openings, or alterations?

Answer 37

Intact

Question 38

What is the state of being resistant to a specific disease called?

Answer 38

Immunity

Question 39

What is the term used for a substance that the body regards as foreign?

Answer 39

Antigen

Question 40

What is anemia?

Answer 40

Deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin

Question 41

What is anaphylaxis?

Answer 41

Severe response to a foreign substance

Question 42

What is oncology?

Answer 42

Study of tumors

Question 43

What is the iron part of the blood that binds O2?

Answer 43

Heme

Question 44

If clotting factors are present in the liquid portion of the blood, what is it called?

Answer 44

Plasma

Question 45

If clotting factors are removed in the liquid portion of the blood, what is it called?

Answer 45

Serum

Question 46

What is the name of a subtance that the body regards as foreign?

Answer 46

Antigen

Question 47

What is the name of a substance that induces an allergic reaction?

Answer 47

Allergen

Question 48

What is the medical term for clot?

Answer 48

Coagulate

Question 49

What is the medical term used for inflammation of the connective tissue?

Answer 49

Cellulitis

Question 50

What is the medical term for a malignant black skin tumor?

Answer 50

Melanoma

Question 51

What is a microorganism that produces disease called?

Answer 51

Pathogen

Question 52

What is the term used describing the ability of an organism to cause disease?

Answer 52

Virulence

Question 53

What is a disease caused by a pathogenic organism called?

Answer 53

Infectious Disease

Question 54

What is a disorder not caused by an organism called? | Genetic, traumatic, iatrogenic

Answer 54

Noninfectious Disease

Question 55

What is a disease that can be spread from one animal to another by direct or indirect contact called?

Answer 55

Contagious/Communicable Disease

Question 56

What is a disease caused by pathogenic organism contracted in a clinic called?

Answer 56

Nosocomial Infection

Question 57

What does prophylaxis mean?

Answer 57

Prevention

Question 58

What is a disease that can be transmitted between animals and humans called?

Answer 58

Zoonosis

Question 59

What is it called when an animal is lacking resistance to disease?

Answer 59

Susceptible

Question 60

What is another term for catching a disease?

Answer 60

Contract

Question 61

What is the term used for a disease with an unknown cause?

Answer 61

Idiopathic

Question 62

What is the term used for when a disease is produced by treatment?

Answer 62

iatrogenic

Question 63

What is a term used to describe a stable internal environment?

Answer 63

Homeostasis

Question 64

What are the basic structural units of the body?

Answer 64

Cells

Question 65

What are hydrophilic substances?

Answer 65

Water-Loving Substances

Question 66

What is the medical term for to surgically cut out?

Answer 66

Incise

Question 67

What is the surgical term for side-by-side placement?

Answer 67

Apposition

Question 68

What is the medical term for a sawlike edge or border?

Answer 68

Serration

Question 69

What is a swaged needle?

Answer 69

Eyeless

Question 70

What is the term for an excessive level of sodium in the blood?

Answer 70

Hypernatremia

Question 71

A solution that is less concentrated than what it is being compared with is known as what?

Answer 71

Hypotonic

Question 72

What route of drug administration is via the gastrointestinal tract?

Answer 72

Parenteral

Question 73

What does an emetic substance do?

Answer 73

Induce Vomitting

Question 74

What is a taper needle?

Answer 74

Rounded Tip

Question 75

What is the graded locking portion of an instrument located near the finger rings?

Answer 75

Ratchet

Question 76

What is a hemostat?

Answer 76

Instrument that Controls Bleeding

Question 77

What is the irrigation of tissue with fluid called?

Answer 77

Lavage

Question 78

What is an accumulation of serum beneath the surgical incision called?

Answer 78

Seroma

Question 79

What is another word for perforation?

Answer 79

Fenestration