Question

Chapter 11: Special Senses. - M a neart is not included. Chapter 13: The Endocrine System. The review exercises are very important for your practice! Please answer these questions: 1-What means: acro and crin/o? 2-The removal of the thyroid gland of a patient in medical words is: 3-What is Otosclerosis and, a surgical incision into the labyrinth of the inner ear is? 4. What means radiculo and mening/o? 5-What is goiter in medical terminology? Which other word can you use? 6-Pain felt in the Iris is? 7a-What is plexus? 75-What is coma? 8a-What is papilledema? 8b-What is mastoiditis? 9.What is the difference between Cushing syndrome and Addison's disease? 10a-What means CSF and OCD? 100-What is the difference between Myopia and Hyperopla? Thank you

Answer 1

1. acr/o means extremities and crin/o means secrete

2. The removal of the thyroid glands of a patient in medical words is Thyroidectomy.

3. Otosclerosis is abnormal bone growth around the footplate of the stapes, resulting in the stapes becoming fixed, limiting its movement and reducing the sound that is transferred to the cochlea. Fenestration is the surgical incision into the labyrinth of the inner ear

4. radicul/o means nerve roots of spinal nerve and mening/o means meninges