Which is the medical term for headache?
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What do the suffixes -dynia and -algia mean?
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Which medical term describes the scraping away of the skin or mucous membrane by friction?
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Which medical term describes 'accumulation of blood in a joint'?
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What do the prefixes cardi- and cardio- refer to?
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Which medical term describes the protrusion of the eyeballs?
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Which medical term describes blood in the urine?
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Which medical term describes an agent that causes disease?
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Which medical terms describes a woman who has never been pregnant?
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Which medical terms describes the bluish discoloration of the skin?
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The word emesis means...
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Which medical terms describes the infection of the fungus Candida?
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Which medical terms describes the red blood cell?
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Which medical terms describes the surgical transplant of the cornea?
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What do the prefixes hemo- and hema- mean?
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To be ambulatory is to be...
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What does syncope mean?
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What does febrile mean?
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What does sepsis mean?
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Which medical terms describes the abnormal widening of the bronchi?
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Which of the following suffixes means to look or observe?
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What is ecchymosis?
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Which of the following suffixes best describes a surgical operation or removal of a body part?
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Which medical terms describes the inflammation of the tympanic membrane?
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What does EDEMA mean?
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Which medical terms describes the disease of the heart muscle?
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Which medical terms describes the removal of the gallbladder?
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Which medical terms describes 'painful menstruation'?
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Which medical terms describes the region 'above the pubic bones'?
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Which medical terms describes the enlargement of a finger or toe?
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Which of the following terms mean upon or on top?
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What is aphasia?
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Which medical terms describes the disease of a lymph node?
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What does the suffix âiatric mean?
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What does the prefix carp/o- mean?
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Which of these prefixes is related to the kidneys?
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What does the suffix ''-itis'' mean?
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Which medical terms describes the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord?
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True or false? Hyper and hypo have the same meanings.
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Which of the following prefixes best describes numb or sleep?
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"Rx" is an abbreviation for:
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What is 'hemorrhage'?
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When a person is diagnosed with hypertension, what does he/she have?
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