Exam 3: Essential Prefixes and More

A term that means pertaining to the skin is:

The term that means an individual with congenital absence of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes is:

Dissolving or destruction of a calculus is called:

The term for any condition that renders some particular line of treatment improper is:

A patient has a chronic ailment that consists of recurrent attacks of drowsiness and sleep. This ailment is called:

Tachycardia means :

_____ means double vision.

A term that means the production or origin of cancer is:

A 23-year-old woman is pregnant for the first time. She is referred to as:

A child skins his knee while playing. This minor scraping of the skin is considered to be:

Difficult speech is referred to as _____.

The mitral valve has two flaps. Which of the following is another term for the mitral valve?

Painful or difficult movement is:

Abnormal preoccupation with fire is:

Death of areas of tissue or bone surrounded by healthy tissues is called:

A 42-year-old man has strength that is the same in both legs. The term that best describes this is:

Excessive thirst is a condition known as _____.

Which disease of the central nervous system occurs when there are many hardened plaques on the myelin sheaths?

A record produced in electrocardiography is a(n) _____.

The term for an instrument used to record the electrical impulses of the brain is: