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Spotlight Features Assignment (9 pts, 1 point per text box) This assignment is made up of 7 questions which represent 12 points. Fill in the text boxes with your responses. Use your textbook to locate the Spotlight Features toward the bottom of several pages in Chapter 3 and respond to these statements below that come from information provided in them. Please note that your answers will be in red, this is for grading purposes. 1. A phalanx is a finger or a toe. Two fingers or two toes are Click to type your answer here 2. The term "anemia" seems to mean no blood" but in medical terms it actually means Click to type your answer here in erythrocytes or the amount of Click to type text here in the blood. 3. Medical terms ending in in the letters -us are pluralized by dropping the us and adding the letter(s) Click to type your answer here 4. If the spleen is removed, the functions are carried out by Click to type your answer here 5. Often cancerous conditions are described by the word components sacglo and carcino. There are exceptions though. Cancer of white blood cells that derive from the bone marrow is called Click to type your answer here and cancer of the white blood cells that derive from lymph tissue is called Click to type your answer 6. An axillary lymph node is located in the Click to lype your answer hon 7. Combining forms that describe the head, skull, and brain are often mistaken for each other. The combining forms for brain include cocophalo and cocebdo. The combining form for "head" is coobalo and the combining form for skuil is Click to lypo your answer hord

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1. Phalanx is a bone of a finger or a toe.Bones of two fingers or two toes are called as Phalanges.

2. Anaemia actually means decreased count in erythrocytes or the amount of oxygen in the blood.

3. Medical terms pluralized by dropping - us are Bronchus - Bronchi, Viscous - Viscera

4. If Spleen is removed the functions are carried out by Liver.

5. Cancer of white blood cells that derive from bone marrow is called Myeloma and cancer of white blood cells that derive from lymph tissue is called Lymphoma

6. An axillary lymph nodes is located in the lower part of the arm pits posterior wall.

7. Combined form of skull is called as Cranium.