EBP Summative Exam

Questions with answers

Part 1

1- The following medical word is made of many affixes = (suffixes + prefixes).

On the light of what you have studied, devide it into its smallest parts and try to guess the meaning of each affixe , then combine them all to find the meaning of the whole word.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

ü  Pneumono: Relating to the lungs or air.

ü  Ultra: Beyond or extreme.

ü  Micro: Small.

ü  Scopic: Relating to viewing or observing.

ü  Silico: Refers to silica (a component of sand and glass).

ü  Volcano: Relating to volcanic materials.

ü  Coni: Dust.

ü  Osis: A condition or disease.

Meaning

A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust, often from volcanic activity.

Part ii

2-  Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word mostly reffering to human body organs :

  2- The stomach is one of the major organs of the digestive system.

3-  The spongy organs, that occupy a large portion of the chest cavity are lungs

4- the human intestine consists of three sections.

3- Answer briefly the following questions :

1-Give an example of a medical desease formed by Eponyms :

 Parkinson’s Disease (named after Dr. James Parkinson)

2- What is the difference between an accronym and abbreviation ?

ü  Acronym: A word formed from the initial letters of a series of words and pronounced as a single term (e.g., AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

ü  Abbreviation: A shortened form of a word or phrase, not necessarily forming a new word (e.g., Dr. for Doctor).