Medical Terminology Simplified

580 APPENDIX B• Answer Key

Competency Verification, Figure 6–6

Liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and duodenum with associated ducts and blood vessels, page 247.

1.liver 6.right hepatic duct

2.gallbladder 7.left hepatic duct

3.pancreas 8.hepatic duct

4.duodenum 9.cystic duct

5.common bile duct 10.pancreatic duct

Section Review 6–6

1.-oma 5. cyst/o 9. cholecyst/o 13.pancreat/o 17.-lith

2.-iasis 6. -megaly 10.therm/o 14.toxic/o, tox/o, -toxic 18.-plasty

3.choledoch/o 7. -ectomy 11.hepat/o 15.-graphy 19.-rrhaphy

4.chol/e 8. -stomy 12.-algia, -dynia 16.-gram 20.-emesis

Additional Medical Terms Review

1. hemoccult 4.ascites 7.fistula 10.IBD 13.cirrhosis
   2.NG intubation 5.Crohn disease 8.jaundice 11.hematochezia 14.barium swallow
   3.polyp 6.lithotripsy 9.barium enema 12.volvulus 15.IBS

Medical Record Activity 6–1: Rectal Bleeding

Evaluation

1. What is the patient’s symptom that made him seek medical help?
   Weight loss of 40 pounds since his last examination


2. What surgical procedures were performed on the patient for regional enteritis?
   Ileostomy and appendectomy


3. What abnormality was found with the sigmoidoscopy?
   Dark blood and rectal bleeding


4. What is causing the rectal bleeding?
   It could be due to a polyp, bleeding, diverticulum, or rectal carcinoma.


5. Write the plural form of diverticulum.
   Diverticula

Medical Record Activity 6–2: Carcinosarcoma of the Esophagus

Evaluation

1. What surgery was performed on this patient?
   Resection of the esophagus with anastomosis of the stomach; mediastinal lymph node excision


2. What diagnostic testing confirmed malignancy?
   Pathology tests on the biopsy specimen from esophagoscopy


3. Where was the carcinosarcoma located?
   Middle third of the esophagus


4. Why was the adjacent lymph node excised?
   Metastasis was suspected.

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