Deck 4: Adjectives

Question 1

Superlative adjectives compare two or more persons, places, things, or ideas.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) mucos
B) muccus
C) muccous
D) mucous

Answer 2

mucous

Question 3

Positive adjectives compare three or more things.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Limiting adjectives can only be placed at the beginning of a sentence.

Question 5

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) clinicel
B) clinicle
C) clinicall
D) clinical

Question 6

Eponyms are proper adjectives.

Question 7

A verb can be used as an adjective.

Question 8

A hyphen is used in a compound adjective positioned before the noun it modifies.

Question 9

When a proper adjective is associated with a proper noun as its base, a capital letter is needed.

Question 10

To show comparative, the word more or less is placed before the base form of an adjective of two or more syllables.

Question 11

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) pathlogical
B) pathelogical
C) pathological
D) pathalogical

Question 12

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) gatrointestinal
B) gastrointestinal
C) gatroentestinal
D) gastointistinal

Question 13

One way to detect misplaced modifiers is to identify them and rearrange them near the word they modify.

Question 14

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) epethelial
B) epithelial
C) epathelial
D) epetheliale

Question 15

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) comprihensive
B) comprehinsive
C) comprehensive
D) comprehensiv

Question 16

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) antediruetic
B) antidieretic
C) antidiuretic
D) antediuretic

Question 17

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) infecshun
B) infecton
C) infecction
D) Infection

Question 18

A predicate adjective describes a subject and comes after a being verb.

Question 19

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) excesive
B) excessive
C) axcessive
D) axcesive

Question 20

Select the word that is spelled correctly.

A) calculos
B) calcullus
C) calculus
D) callculus

Question 21

John was the ____ person in his class.

A) intelligent
B) more intelligent
C) intelligentest
D) most intelligent

Question 22

The name of the book is Gray's Anatomy.

A) interrogative
B) limiting
C) proper
D) descriptive

Question 23

These charts are the ones requested by the pathology department.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 24

Alzheimer's disease is thought to be related to the presence of plaque in the brain.

A) limiting
B) eponym
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 25

Smoking is dangerous to your lungs.

A) limiting
B) eponym
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 26

The EKG machine is a ____ model than the last one.

A) new
B) newer
C) most new
D) more new

Question 27

The patient had third - degree burns on her leg.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 28

The ____ mark in the class was 70%.

A) poor
B) poorer
C) poorest
D) more poor

Question 29

The ethics board discussed questionable actions of one staff person.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) interrogative

Question 30

This consultative report is ____ than the previous report.

A) more complete
B) most complete
C) complete
D) completer

Question 31

The ____ way to the emergency room is up Main Street.

A) most fast
B) fast
C) fastest
D) fastere

Question 32

Physicians are ____ than they were 10 years ago.

A) most confident
B) more confident
C) confident
D) confidenter

Question 33

Select the correct degree of comparison. The lab report is the ____ of the two reports.

A) long
B) longer
C) longest
D) more long

Question 34

Myocardial infarction is a medical term for a heart attack.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) interrogative

Question 35

Some physicians are involved in cancer research.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 36

Identify the type of italicized adjective. Shock is a serious condition.

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) compound

Question 37

The height of this file cabinet is ____ than the one in your office.

A) low
B) lower
C) lowest
D) more low

Question 38

The second medication prescribed worked _______ than the first one.

A) gooder
B) more better
C) better
D) goodest

Question 39

This shipment is the ____ one all year.

A) heavier
B) heavy
C) more heavier
D) heaviest

Question 40

Which test is used to diagnose a fractured bone?

A) limiting
B) descriptive
C) predicate
D) interrogative

Question 41

_________ reports describe results of a diagnostic procedure using radio waves or other forms of radiation.

Question 42

_________ summaries suggest and prescribe a follow-up medical process or procedure .

Question 43

A _________ report contains a physician's impression given to another physician asking for advice. 

Question 44

The report that ends with the patient going to the recovery room is the _________ report.

Question 45

_________ reports describe how specimens look to the naked eye .

Question 46

Identify the type of report that contains the information presented.
A(n) ___________ report describes the surgical procedures performed on a patient

Question 47

_________ reports contain a description of tissue samples removed from the body.

Question 48

Reports that provide information about x-rays, scans, MRI, upper GI series, and ultrasonograms are ________ reports.

Question 49

A _________ summary records events that occurred during the hospitalization. 

Question 50

Unusual circumstances or complications as well as estimated blood loss are recorded in the ___________ report.