Med Term Ch 8

Question 1

Benign

Answer 1

Denoting the mild character of an illness or the nonmalignant character of a neoplasm

Question 2

Biopsy

Answer 2

Process of removing tissue from living patients for macroscopic diagnostic exaination

Question 3

Circumocular

Answer 3

Pertaining to around the eye

Question 4

Circumscribed

Answer 4

Bounded by a line; limited or confined

Question 5

Condyloma

Answer 5

A wart-like excrescence on the skins of the genital perineum or anus, usually sexually transmitted

Question 6

Cyst

Answer 6

An abnormal sac containing gas, fluid, or a semisolid material, with a membranous lining

Question 7

Distal

Answer 7

Situated further away from the point of attachment/trunk-refers to the extremities

Question 8

Dorsal

Answer 8

Pertaining to the back of any dorsum (back)

Question 9

Ectoderm

Answer 9

The outer layer of cells in the embryo, after establishment of the three primary germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm)

Question 10

Ectopic

Answer 10

An organ out of place (ectopic pregnancy)

Question 11

Endocystoscopy

Answer 11

An examination of the inside of a bladder

Question 12

Endogenous

Answer 12

Originating or produced inside of an organism, tissue, or cell

Question 13

Epigastric

Answer 13

Relating to the epigastrium (top middle of the 9 abdominal regions)

Question 14

Excrescence

Answer 14

Any outgrowth from a surface (fingernail, wart)

Question 15

Extrasensory

Answer 15

Outside or beyond the ordinary sense; not limited to the senses, as in extrasensory perception

Question 16

Hypodermic

Answer 16

Beneath the skin

Question 17

Infiltration

Answer 17

The act of permeating or penetrating into cell, or tissue; usually a gas, fluid, or particulate

Question 18

Inframammary

Answer 18

Below the breast

Question 19

Lesion

Answer 19

A wound or injury

Question 20

Lateral

Answer 20

Away from the mid-line (hips are lateral to the navel)

Question 21

Lumbar

Answer 21

Relating to the loins, or the part of the back and the sides between the ribs and pelvis ( lumbar vertebrae in the small of the back)

Question 22

Malignant

Answer 22

Resistant to treatment, occurring in severe form; frequently fatal; tending to become worse

Question 23

Medial

Answer 23

Relating to the middle or center, nearer to the median or midsagital plane

Question 24

Mesoderm

Answer 24

The middle of the 3 primary germ layers of the embryo.

Question 25

Metastasis

Answer 25

The shifting of disease or its local manifestations from one part of the body to another

Question 26

Neoplasm

Answer 26

An abnormal tissue that grows more rapidly than normal and continues to grow after the stimuli that initiated the original growth ceases

Question 27

Papilla

Answer 27

Any small nipple-like process

Question 28

Papilloma

Answer 28

A small wart-like growth on the skin or on a mucous membrane, derived from the epidermis, and usually benign.

Question 29

Papules

Answer 29

A small circumscribed, solid elevation on the skin

Question 30

Periumbilical

Answer 30

Pertaining to the area around the belly button

Question 31

Polyp

Answer 31

A general descriptive term used with reference to any mass of tissues that bulges or projects outward or upward from the normal surface level

Question 32

Proximal

Answer 32

Nearest the trunk or point of origin; said of part of a limb, of an artery or nerve

Question 33

Subpatellar

Answer 33

Pertaining to the area below the kneecap

Question 34

Suprapubic

Answer 34

Relating to the area above the pubic arch

Question 35

Tumor

Answer 35

An abnormal growth of tissue resulting from uncontrolled, progressive multiplication of cells and serving no physiological function; a neoplasm.

Question 36

Ventral

Answer 36

Pertaining to the belly; opposite of dorsal