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Nursing Fundamentals introduces students to the core concepts and essential skills necessary for the practice of professional nursing. The course covers foundational topics such as the nursing process, patient care techniques, health assessment, infection control, safety, documentation, and communication within the healthcare team. Emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking, ethical decision making, and the compassionate delivery of holistic patient care across diverse populations. Laboratory and clinical experiences provide practical application of classroom knowledge, preparing students for more advanced nursing courses and clinical responsibilities.
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Exploring Medical Language A Student Directed Approach 8th Edition by Myrna Brooks
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Medical Language
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Q1) All medical terms have at least one
A) prefix
B) combining vowel
C) suffix
D) word root
Answer: D
Q2) The word part that is attached to the end of a word root to modify its meaning is the A) combining vowel
B) suffix
C) word root
D) prefix
Answer: B
Q3) A combining vowel is used to A) ease word pronunciation
B) modify the meaning of a word
C) make analyzing a word easier
D) make defining a word easier
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Body Structure, Color, and Oncology
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Q1) The term karyocyte is defined as
A) the study of cells
B) resembling a cell
C) an increase in the number of cells
D) a cell with a nucleus
Answer: D
Q2) The correct way to analyze the term melanocarcinoma is
A) melan/o/carcin/oma
B) mel/ano/car/cino/ma
C) melano/carcin/o/ma
D) melan/o/car/cin/oma
Answer: A
Q3) Organoid is a medical term meaning
A) pertaining to an organ
B) resembling an organ
C) abnormal condition of an organ
D) state of an organ
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Directional Terms, Planes, Positions, Regions, and Quadrants
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Q1) A vertical field running through the body from front to back at the midline dividing the body into right and left halves is the
A) transverse plane
B) parasagittal plane
C) midsagittal plane
D) coronal plane
Answer: C
Q2) A patient having both ovaries removed would be scheduled for a
A) unilateral oophorectomy
B) bilateral oophorectomy
C) medial oophorectomy
D) mediolateral oophorectomy
Answer: B
Q3) The abbreviation for the medical term meaning pertaining to a side is
A) LUQ
B) ant
C) med
D) lat
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Integumentary System
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Q1) Death of tissue caused by loss of blood supply is called
A) gangrene
B) scleroderma
C) pallor
D) furuncle
Q2) Another term for loss of hair is
A) nevus
B) keloid
C) alopecia
D) cicatrix
Q3) The term that means pertaining to under the skin is
A) ungual
B) percutaneous
C) intradermal
D) hypodermic
Q4) The term rhytidoplasty means the
A) surgical repair of wrinkles
B) excision of a nail
C) surgical repair of the skin
D) excision of wrinkles
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Chapter 5: Respiratory System
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Q1) The combining form that means chest is
A) pleur/o
B) lob/o
C) diaphragmat/o
D) thorac/o
Q2) Because of the near drowning, the young man experienced a temporary absence of oxygen, or
A) anoxia
B) acapnia
C) apnea
D) eupnea
Q3) The suffix that means an instrument used for visual examination is
A) -meter
B) -scopy
C) -graph
D) -scope
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Chapter 6: Urinary System
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Q1) The physician first suspected diabetes when the patient complained of an excessive amount of urine, or
A) polyuria
B) anuria
C) dysuria
D) oliguria
Q2) The combining form pyel/o is defined as
A) bladder
B) renal pelvis
C) urethral meatus
D) ureter
Q3) The combining form tom/o is defined as
A) cut, section
B) sound
C) scanty
D) night
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Chapter 7: Male Reproductive System
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Q1) The process that renders an individual unable to produce offspring is A) coitus
B) sterilization
C) circumcision
D) vasovasostomy
Q2) The term orchidopexy is defined as
A) surgical fixation of a testicle
B) excision of the seminal vesicles
C) incision into the testes
D) surgical repair of the glans penis
Q3) Scrotal swelling caused by a collection of fluid is called
A) phimosis
B) prostatitis
C) varicocele
D) hydrocele
Q4) Sperm have their beginning in the A) vas deferens
B) seminal vesicles
C) epididymis
D) seminiferous tubules
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Chapter 8: Female Reproductive System
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Q1) The pelvic floor in both the male and female is called the A) perineum
B) vulva
C) genital
D) inguinal region
Q2) Uterine artery embolization is used to treat
A) vesicovaginal fistula
B) fibroids of the uterus
C) cancer of the uterus
D) abnormal uterine bleeding
Q3) The term that means painful menstrual discharge is A) menorrhagia
B) amenorrhea
C) dysmenorrhea
D) metrorrhagia
Q4) TVS is the abbreviation for A) total vaginal hysterectomy
B) transvaginal hysterectomy
C) total vaginal hymenectomy
D) transvaginal sonography
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Chapter 9: Obstetrics and Neonatology
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Q1) The medical specialty dealing with pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium is
A) gynecology
B) midwifery
C) neonatology
D) obstetrics
Q2) A woman who has been pregnant two or more times is described as
A) multiparous
B) multigravida
C) gravidopuerperal
D) primipara
Q3) Which of the following is a respiratory complication in the newborn, especially in premature infants?
A) EED
B) NB
C) RDS
D) LMP
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Chapter 10: Cardiovascular, Immune, and Lymphatic
Systems and Blood
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Q1) Which of the following receives blood returning from the body?
A) right ventricle
B) left atrium
C) left ventricle
D) right atrium
Q2) The prefix that means slow is
A) tachy-
B) brady-
C) hyper-
D) meta-
Q3) The suffix that means hardening is
A) -malacia
B) -sclerosis
C) -penia
D) -poiesis
Q4) The blood test used to measure the volume of red blood cells is
A) hemoglobin
B) hematocrit
C) platelet count
D) homocysteine
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Chapter 11: Digestive System
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Q1) The term that means radiographic imaging of the colon is A) cholangiogram
B) colonoscopy
C) CT colonography
D) endoscope
Q2) The small, saclike structure that stores bile is the A) liver
B) duodenum
C) stomach
D) gallbladder
Q3) The abnormal backward flow of GI contents into the esophagus is called A) Crohn disease
B) bulimia nervosa
C) intussusception
D) gastroesophageal reflux disease
Q4) The term esophagogastroplasty is defined as the
A) creation of an artificial opening between the esophagus and the stomach
B) excision of the esophagus and the stomach
C) surgical repair of the esophagus and the stomach
D) incision of the esophagus and the stomach
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Chapter 12: Eye
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Q1) The term that means surgical repair of the eyelid is
A) blepharoplasty
B) keratoplasty
C) dacryocystotomy
D) cryoretinopexy
Q2) A procedure to repair tears in the retina by use of an intense beam of light from a laser is
A) LASIK
B) enucleation
C) phacoemulsification
D) retinal photocoagulation
Q3) Which of the following means pertaining to two or both eyes?
A) pupillary
B) binocular
C) nasolacrimal
D) retinal
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Chapter 13: Ear
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Q1) The combining form aur/i is defined as
A) ear
B) hearing
C) eardrum
D) ear bone
Q2) The patient who swam regularly often suffered from inflammation of the outer ear or A) otitis media
B) otitis externa
C) presbycusis
D) vertigo
Q3) The term otalgia is defined as
A) pain in the ear
B) enlarged auricle
C) drainage from the middle ear
D) infection of the eardrum
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Chapter 14: Musculoskeletal System
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Q1) Moving away from the midline is a movement called A) abduction
B) eversion
C) adduction
D) flexion
Q2) The first set of seven bones forming the neck is called the
A) cervical vertebrae
B) thoracic vertebrae
C) lumbar vertebrae
D) sacral vertebrae
Q3) The flexible, tough band of fibrous connective tissue that attaches one bone to another at a joint is the
A) synovia
B) ligament
C) tendon
D) aponeurosis
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Chapter 15: Nervous System and Behavioral Health
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Q1) The disease that means (any) disease of the mind is
A) psychopathy
B) psychosis
C) psychosomatic
D) psychogenic
Q2) The term that means excision of a nerve is
A) rhizotomy
B) neurotomy
C) neurectomy
D) neurorrhaphy
Q3) The term neuralgia is defined as
A) disease of the nerve and the joints
B) pain in the nerve
C) inflammation of many nerves
D) a developing nerve cell
Q4) The newborn had meninges protruding through a defect in his skull, or a(n)
A) myelomeningocele
B) myelomalacia
C) encephalomalacia
D) meningocele
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Chapter 16: Endocrine System
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Q1) The term euthyroid is defined as resembling a/an
A) stressed thyroid gland
B) normal thyroid gland
C) enlarged thyroid gland
D) small thyroid gland
Q2) The abbreviation for the diagnostic test that determines the amount of glucose in the blood is
A) RAIU
B) T<sub>4</sub>
C) FBS
D) TSH
Q3) The term hypothyroidism means
A) state of excessive thyroid activity
B) deficient level of calcium in the blood
C) deficient level of sodium in the blood
D) state of deficient thyroid activity
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