An example of an eponym is a medical term named after a famous patient who had the disease. True or False.
True
An example of an eponym is a medical term named after a famous patient who had the disease.
- roo
- rhee-yoo
roo
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oncology
- on
- col
- o
- gy
col
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MRI is an example of an eponym.
False
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Latin and Greek provide an excellent basis for medical terminology because dead languages do not change.
True
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pterion
- tir
- puh-tir
tir
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dermatology
- jee
- gee
jee
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catheter
- cath
- e
- ter
cath
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Medical language allows health care professionals to comfort patients because
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- it communicates a sense that the health care professionals are in control of the situation.
- it lets the patients know that the health care professionals are not caught off guard by the symptoms at hand.
- it lets the patients know that the health care professionals know what is going on.
- all of these.
all of these.
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xerosis
- zer
- ex-er
zer
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Greek and Latin provide the basis of the language of medicine because Western medicine has its foundations in the Greek and Roman cultures.
True
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Acronyms are used to say things more quickly.
True
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cornea
- cor
- ne
- a
cor
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anemia
- a
- ne
- mi
- a
ne
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encephalitis
- kep-ah
- sef-ah
sef-ah
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pneumatocele
- noo
- puh-noo
noo
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pneumatocele
- keel
- seel
seel
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cholera
- cho
- ler
- a
cho
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dermatology
- der
- ma
- tol
- o
- gy
tol
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cholera
- kaw
- choh
kaw
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collagen
- col
- la
- gen
col
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digit
- jit
- git
jit
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optometry
- op
- tom
- e
- try
tom
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cirrhosis
- kir-hoh
- sir-oh
sir-oh
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catheter
- kath
- sath
kath
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cuticle
- kyoo
- suh
kyoo
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A dead language is a language that people do not like to hear or speak anymore because it is no longer useful to a society.
False
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cystic fibrosis
- kis
- sis
sis
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gonad
- joh
- goh
goh
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gag reflex
- jag
- gag
gag
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Some other sources of medical language include eponyms, acronyms, and modern languages.
True
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cuticle
- cu
- ti
- cle
cu
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geneticist
- kist
- sist
sist
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rheumatoid multiple choice
- rheu
- ma
- toid
rheu
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The first people to systematically study the human body and develop theories about health and disease were the ancient Greeks.
True
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Medical language allows health care professionals to be clear because
- few people really understand medical terminology, so at least everyone is speaking the same way.
- health care professionals are in control of the situation and don’t want to scare patients with a language that they could understand.
- we live in a multicultural society with a variety of languages, and medical language is a way of speaking the same way about the same thing despite your native language.
- none of these.
we live in a multicultural society with a variety of languages, and medical language is a way of speaking the same way about the same thing despite your native language.
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psychosis
- koh
- choh
koh
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Medical language allows health care professionals to communicate quickly because
- it is a quick way to speak to other health care professionals without taking the time to describe symptoms or examine findings.
- the patients are usually baffled by the terminology and do not ask additional questions.
- words with many syllables always communicate more information than words with few syllables.
- none of these.
it is a quick way to speak to other health care professionals without taking the time to describe symptoms or examine findings.
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Even though German was the global language of the scientific revolution, the Catholic Church forced all academics to use Latin, a language unknown to most people.
False
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cornea
- kor
- sor
kor
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geneticist
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geneticist
- ge
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- i
- cist
net
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geneticist
- jen
- gen
jen
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psychotherapist multiple choice
- psy
- cho
- ther
- a
- pist
ther
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gut
- jut
- gut
gut
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Medical language is made up primarily, but not exclusively, of words taken from two ancient languages: Greek and Latin.
True
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The first people to systematically study the human body and develop theories about health and disease were the ancient Greeks.
True