Medical Terminology

Question 1

What is an eponym?

Answer 1

An eponym is a word that comes from the name of a person, place or thing associated with the word.

Question 2

Who is Parkinson’s disease named after?

Answer 2

It is named after James Parkinson

Question 3

Who is Graves disease named after?

Answer 3

It is named after Dr. Robert James Graves.

Question 4

Who is Hashimoto’s disease named after?

Answer 4

It is named after Dr. Hakaru Hashimoto

Question 5

Who is Cushing disease named after?

Answer 5

It is named after Dr. Harvey Cushing

Question 6

Who is the Jackson-Pruitt drain named after?

Answer 6

It is named after its inventors, Dr. Frederick Jackson and Dr. Richard Pratt

Question 7

Who is the Snellen eye chart named after?

Answer 7

It is named after Dr. Herman Snellen

Question 8

What is an acronym?

Answer 8

An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the first letter of each word of a phrase and pronounced as a word.

Question 9

What does the acronym POTS mean?

Answer 9

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Question 10

What is an abbreviation?

Answer 10

An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase. The abbreviation can be derived from the letters in the word or from combining the first letter of each word.

Question 11

What does the abbreviation BP mean?

Answer 11

It means Blood Pressure

Question 12

What does the abbreviation CBC mean?

Answer 12

It means Complete Blood Count

Question 13

What does the abbreviation CC mean?

Answer 13

It means chief complaint

Question 14

What does the abbreviation HTN mean?

Answer 14

It means hypertension

Question 15

What does the abbreviation Ca mean?

Answer 15

It means cancer

Question 16

What does the abbreviation HA mean?

Answer 16

It means Headache

Question 17

What does the abbreviation PT mean?

Answer 17

It means physical therapy

Question 18

What does the acronym ACE mean?

Answer 18

It means Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme

Question 19

What does the acronym AIDS mean?

Answer 19

It means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Question 20

What does the acronym ARDS mean?

Answer 20

It means Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Question 21

What does the acronym HIPAA mean?

Answer 21

It means Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Question 22

What does the acronym LASER mean?

Answer 22

It means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Question 23

What are symbols?

Answer 23

Symbols are pictures that represent a word or phrase to increase the speed of documentation and reduce the amount of paper required.

Question 24

Why have symbols fallen out of favor?

Answer 24

Symbols are not as popular these days because of the rise in electronic health records. Symbols were mostly used with paper records.

Question 25

What does the acronym RICE mean?

Answer 25

It means Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

Question 26

What does the acronym SIDS mean?

Answer 26

It means Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Question 27

What are the two groups that medical terms can be divided into?

Answer 27

1.) Terms made up of word parts 2.) Terms not made up of word parts

Question 28

How can medical assistants remember words not made up of word parts?

Answer 28

By memorization

Question 29

How can medical assistants remember words made up of word parts ?

Answer 29

By literally defining them

Question 30

What language origins do medical term word parts usually have?

Answer 30

Greek or Latin

Question 31

What is a prefix?

Answer 31

A prefix is a word part that is found at the beginning of the word and is listed with a hyphen e.g. bi-

Question 32

What is a suffix?

Answer 32

A suffix is a word part found at the end of the word. Suffixes follow the hyphen e.g. -tic

Question 33

What is a root?

Answer 33

A root is a word part that is the foundation of the term

Question 34

What is a combining vowel?

Answer 34

A combining vowel is a vowel that joins a root to a suffix or a root to a root.

Question 35

What is the result of the root being added to the combining vowel?

Answer 35

The combining form. It can be represented by stating the root part followed by a slash and the vowel e.g “oste/o”