Medical Terminology Simplified

592 APPENDIX B• Answer Key

Competency Verification, Figure 9–8

Structures of the brain, page 421.

1.cerebrum 3.pons

2.midbrain 4.medulla

Competency Verification, Figure 9–9

Spinal nerves, page 423.

1.cervical nerves 4.sacral nerves

2.thoracic nerves 5.coccygeal nerves

3.lumbar nerves

Section Review 9–5

1.-osis 4.vascul/o 7.gli/o, -glia 10.neur/o 13.-phasia

2.dys- 5.encephal/o 8.scler/o 11.cerebr/o 14.myel/o

3.thromb/o 6.-rhage, -rrhagia 9.mening/o, meningi/o 12.-malacia 15.a-

Additional Medical Terms Review

1.Bell palsy 6.hypophysectomy 11.sciatica 16.MRI 21.Huntington chorea

2.TIA 7.myxedema 12.spina bifida 17.type 1 diabetes 22.lumbar puncture

3.antipsychotics 8.pheochromocytoma 13.EEG 18.shingles 23.epilepsy

4.exophthalmos 9.Parkinson disease 14.neuroblastoma 19.quadriplegia 24.thalamotomy

5.Graves disease 10. poliomyelitis 15.Alzheimer disease 20.panhypopituitarism 25.PET

Medical Record Activity 9–1: Diabetes Mellitus

Evaluation

1. What symptoms of DM did the patient experience before his office visit?
   Glycosuria, elevated blood glucose of 400, polydipsia, and increased appetite


2. What confirmed the patient’s new diagnosis of DM?
   Elevated blood glucose and glycosuria


3. What conditions had to be met before the patient could be discharged from the hospital?
   He had to be able to draw up and give his own insulin and perform fingersticks.


4. How many times a day does the patient have to take insulin?
   Two times, once in the morning and once in the afternoon

Term Meaning

6. a/phasia -phasia: speech; without, not


7. mening/o/cele -cele: hernia, swelling; meninges


8. encephal/itis -itis: inflammation; brain


9. gli/oma -oma: tumor; glue; neuroglial tissue


10. quadri/plegia -plegia: paralysis; four

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