- An action that lowers the foot and points the toes is
Your answer:
abduction
dorsiflexion
adduction
pronation
plantar flexion
- The combining form for the femur is
Your answer:
patell/o
femur/o
fibul/o
femor/o
humer/o
- A large rounded process on a bone is called
Your answer:
sulcus
fossa
condyle
tuberosity
articulation
- A combining form for the heel bone is
Your answer:
calcane/o
acromi/o
tars/o
calc/o
carp/o
- The combining form brachi/o means
Your answer:
digits
leg
kneecap
crooked
arm
- A soft spot between the cranial bones is called
Your answer:
fontanelle
sulcus
trochanter
sulcus
foramen
- The action of turning the palm up is called
Your answer:
pronation
rotation
dorsiflexion
supination
adduction
- Connective tissue which attaches one bone to another is called a/an
Your answer:
synergist
tendon
ligament
fixation
antagonist
- The combining form for striated skeletal muscle is
Your answer:
chondr/o
rhabdomy/o
myel/o
tendin/o
leiomy/o
- The term for stiffening or freezing of a joint is
Your answer:
arthrolysis
arthroclasia
ankylosis
arthrodysplasia
necrosis
- The suffix for refracture or break is
Your answer:
-blast
-desis
-clasis
-centesis
-cleisis
- The term for inflammation of the vertebrae is
Your answer:
osteoporosis
spondylitis
spina bifida
ankylosis
menigitis
- A medication used to reduce fever is called a/an
Your answer:
relaxant
chrysotherapy
uricosuria
antipyretic
antihyperuricemia
- The site where hematopoiesis occurs is the
Your answer:
capillaries
bone marrow
cartilage
liver
periosteum
- Two main divisions of the skeleton are the axial and the
Your answer:
articular
vertebral
peripheral
cephalic
appendicular
- Freely movable joints are called
Your answer:
synarthrosis
amphiarthrosis
suture joints
diarthrosis
symphysis
- A fracture that involves a broken bone and an external wound is called
Your answer:
comminuted
compound
impacted
greenstick
pathological
- A lateral curvature of the spine is called
Your answer:
lordosis
sciatica
necrosis
scoliosis
kyphosis
- The term that means limping is
Your answer:
crepitation
hyperkinesia
strain
claudication
sciatica
- A segment of necrosed bone is called
Your answer:
subluxation
rickets
sequestrum
rachitis
necropsy
- An increase in the severity of a disease or its symptoms is
Your answer:
exacerbation
sequestrum
remission
hyperkinesia
claudication
- Deformities of the foot, such as clubfoot, are called
Your answer:
genic valgus
diapedesis
talipes
genu varum
genuclast
- Which of the following is NOT a function of bones?
Your answer:
hematopoiesis
contraction
support
protection
storage of minerals
- The shaft of the bone is called
Your answer:
articulate
epiphysis
diaphysis
cancellous
synarthrosis
- The bone forming cells are called
Your answer:
osteoblasts
periosteum
articular cartilage
osteoclasts
cancellous
- Which of the following is NOT part of the vertebral column?
Your answer:
atlas
axis
thoracic
cervical
pubic
- The tail bone is also known as
Your answer:
sacrum
axis
coccyx
lumbar
pubis
- The three bones that are included in the pelvis are
Your answer:
coccyx, ilium, and ischium
ischium, symphysis, and coccyx
pubis, sacrum, and coccyx
ilium, ischium, and symphysis
ilium, ischium, and pubis
- Which of the following is paired INCORRECTLY?
Your answer:
skeletal muscles; striated muscles
striated muscles; voluntary muscles
voluntary muscles; visceral muscles
involuntary muscles; visceral muscles
smooth muscles; visceral muscles
- When muscles arise directly from bones, the attachment is said to be
Your answer:
smooth
fibrous
voluntary
fleshy
striated
- The combining form for finger and toe bones is
Your answer:
phalang/o
spondyl/o
fibul/o
patell/o
pod/o
- The combining form for thigh bone is
Your answer:
fibul/o
rachi/o
humor/o
femor/o
patell/o
- A type of fracture where the bone has injured another organ, such as a broken rib piercing a lung
Your answer:
closed
impacted
complicated
incomplete
compound
- A pathological fracture is also called
Your answer:
spontaneous
greenstick
impacted
hairline
comminuted
- Another name for osteitis deformans is
Your answer:
Heberden's nodes
Paget disease
polio
Pott's disease
osteomyelitis
- A partial or incomplete dislocation is
Your answer:
talipes
strain
sprain
subluxation
sequestrum
- An excision of the posterior arch of a vertebra
Your answer:
open reduction
sequestrectomy
synovectomy
laminectomy
bursectomy
- Fractures of the long bones of the legs usually mend more rapidly than fractures of the long bones of the arms.
Your answer:
True
False
- Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone and bone marrow.
Your answer:
True
False
- With chronic osteomyelitis, prognosis is good.
Your answer:
True
False
- Gouty arthritis is believed to be an autoimmune disease.
Your answer:
True
False
- Osteoarthritis is associated with hard nodules at the distal interphalangeal joints.
Your answer:
True
False
- A lateral curvature of the spine to the right or left is called scoliosis.
Your answer:
True
False
- A malignant tumor arising from bone is called a sarcoma.
Your answer:
True
False
- Ewing's sarcoma usually affects the ends of the long bones.
Your answer:
True
False
- A prosthesis is an artificial replacement for a missing part or limb.
Your answer:
True
False
- Carpal tunnel syndrome and talipes both affect the hand and wrist.
Your answer:
True
False
- Some of the wastes filtered out of the blood by the kidneys are
Your answer:
chyle
diuretics
carbon dioxide
nitrogenous products
chyme
- The aperture where the renal artery and renal vein enter and leave the kidney is the
Your answer:
hilus
ureter
trigone
renal tubule
Bowman's capsule
- After wastes are removed, blood leaves the kidney by way of the
Your answer:
ureter
renal artery
portal vein
renal vein
urinary meatus
- The filtering units responsible for maintaing homeostasis are the
Your answer:
calyces
collecting tubules
bulbourethral glands
urinary meatus
nephrons
- Blood filtering in the kidney begins in the
Your answer:
renal pelvis
renal corpuscle
proximal tubule
renal tubule
renal artery
- Reabsorption in the nephron occurs in
Your answer:
Bowman's capsule
renal corpuscle
renal tubule
glomerulus
afferent arteriole
- Urine is expelled from the body through the
Your answer:
renal tubule
ureter
renal pelvis
calyx
urethra
- Sperm is produced in the
Your answer:
seminiferous tubules
seminal vesicles
ductus deferens
prostate gland
epididymis
- The enlarged tip of the penis is the
Your answer:
ductus deferens
bulbourethral gland
prepuce
glans penis
Cowper's gland
- The testes are located in the
Your answer:
epididymis
scrotum
ductus deferens
renal pelvis
abdominal cavity
- The combining form vesic/o means
Your answer:
seminal vesicle
vas deferens
vessels
bladder
prepuce
- The combining form crypt/o means
Your answer:
testes
cold
hidden
scrotum
epididymis
- The term that means blood in the urine is
Your answer:
hyperuricemia
hematuria
uremia
diuresis
hemoptysis
- The combining form olig/o means
Your answer:
scanty
testis
sperm
origin
hidden
- The combining form py/o means
Your answer:
renal pelvis
fever
hidden
heat
pus
- Solidified protein fragments shaped like the tubules where they form are
Your answer:
uroliths
nodular hyperplasia
casts
nephroliths
necroliths
- The surgery to correct cyptorchidism is
Your answer:
herniorrhapy
lithotripsy
orchiopexy
nephrolithectomy
nephropexy
- Hesitancy, dysuria, hematuria, and frequency are symptoms of
Your answer:
hydronephrosis
prostatic carcinoma
glomerulitis
hydrocele
varicocele
- Agents that promote secretion of urine are called
Your answer:
diaphoretics
antidiuretics
uremics
uricosurics
diuretics
- Malformation in which the urethra opens on the dorsum of the penis is
Your answer:
hydrocele
epispadias
impotence
hypospadias
varicocele
- During surgery, an instrument called a sound is used to
Your answer:
dilate
incise
remove foreign substances
stop bleeding
take x-rays
- Fulguration is used during surgery to
Your answer:
make an incision
destroy tissue
crush stones
dilate a stricture
administer anesthetics
- Nitrogenous wastes are produced when body cells metabolize
Your answer:
sugar
electrolytes
calcium
fat
protein
- Waste products are transported to the kidneys via the
Your answer:
renal vein
renal artery
collecting tubule
renal pelvis
ureter
- The renal pelvis is
Your answer:
an extension of the peritoneal cavity
an extension of the ureter
located at the base of the bladder
a portion of the urethra
a portion of the renal corpuscle
- The renal corpuscle is composed of the funnel shaped end of the renal tubule and the
Your answer:
ureter
glomerulus
renal pelvis
peritubular capillaries
efferent arteriole
- In the formation of urine, filteration takes place in the
Your answer:
renal corpuscle
bladder
renal pelvis
renal capsule
collecting tubule
- Sperm is produced in the
Your answer:
ejaculatory duct
vas deferens
seminal duct
seminiferous tubules
prostate
- The ejaculatory duct
Your answer:
transports only sperm
is located in the scrotum
passes at an angle through the prostate gland
carries sperm from the testes into the abdominopelvic cavity
is located beneath the epididymis
- A structure that functions both in the urinary system and the male reproduction system is
Your answer:
prostate
urethra
testes
vas deferens
ureter
- Glomerulonephritis is associated with all of the following except
Your answer:
pyelonephritis
pathogenic streptococci infection
systemic lupus erythematosus
polyarthritis
scleroderma
- Orchiopexy is often accompanied by which of the following surgical procedures:
Your answer:
nephropexy
circumcision
prostatectomy
vasectomy
herniorrhaphy
- Incontinence is also called anuria.
Your answer:
True
False
- An excess of urea, creatinine, and uric acid in the blood is called azotemia.
Your answer:
True
False
- An accumulation of serous fluid in the scrotal sac is called hydronephrosis.
Your answer:
True
False
- Distention of the veins of the spermatic cord is called varicocele.
Your answer:
True
False
- Removal of part of the prepuce is known as circumcision.
Your answer:
True
False
- Medications used to increase sperm count are called spermicidals.
Your answer:
True
False
- Gonadotropin is a medication used in the treatment of gout.
Your answer:
True
False
- UTIs are more common in males than females.
Your answer:
True
False
- The loss of excessive amounts of protein resulting in systemic edema is nephrotic syndrome.
Your answer:
True
False
- Sperm is the largest constituent by volume of seminal fluid.
Your answer:
True
False