What does the combining form xer/o mean?
A) moist
B) itchy
C) red
D) dry
Answer: D) dry
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Medical Terminology
- A disease that can be spread from one person to another person/s is called:
- An infant was just given an injection that will provide immunity to the measles, mumps, and rubella. This is an example of:
- Diseases that are caused by a person's own immune response attacking otherwise completely healthy tissues are known as the:
- This is the medical term for the stopping the bleeding
- A treatment of an infection with an administration of a substance, derived from one type microorganisms to cause the death or slowing the growth of another type of the microorganisms, is called as the:
- This is a severe and sometimes life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction to an antigen, which causes rapid drop in the blood pressure and difficulty breathing due to the laryngeal edema and bronchospasm.
- This type of anemia is caused by the red bone marrow's failure to produce the blood cells
- A patient twisted her ankle. Immediately after the injury, the ankle became swollen, red, painful, and warm to the touch. The medical term for this phenomenon is:
- This anemia is due to a genetic disorder with a defective hemoglobin which causes the red blood cells to change their shape and clump together blocking the small blood vessels
- What term refers to a diminished immune system response caused by the drugs, chemicals or radiation?
- This disease is characterized by the reduced number of red blood cells or reduced amount of the hemoglobin in them.
- Which medical term is spelled correctly?
- Anemia that is caused by an inadequate supply of the vitamin B12 is called:
- Which medical term below is spelled correctly?
- This is a viral disease that disables the person's immune response by destroying the Helper T4 lymphocytes.
- A patient who develops the itchy, watery eyes and the nasal congestion, when exposed to the pollens, is most likely suffers from the:
- The word edema means which of the following?
- What is the term for the condition of a decreased number of the platelets which will interfere with the normal clotting process
- This is the medical term for the presence of bacteria in the patient's blood.
- Splenomegaly is defined as the:
- What does the prefix an- mean in the term the anisocytosis?
- The medical term for the abnormally large red blood cells is:
- An abnormal loss of the blood from the circulation due to a disease or trauma is called:
- This is the medical term for a blood smear showing the red blood cells of unequal sizes.
- The medical term for the rupture of the red blood cells is:
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