CC 306M Test 5 (Spring 2012)

1. Combining form for cornea:

A) Phac/o
B) Kerat/o
C) Bulb/o
D) Scler/o
2. The combining form ambly/o,
as in amblyopia, means:
A) Closed
B) Dull
C) Double/both
D) Walking
3. Relaxation/slackening of the
eyelid = blepharo__________.
A) -chalasis
B) -ptosis
C) -ectasis
D) -rrhexis
4. Inflammation of the lacrimal
sac:
A) Dacryoadenitis
B) Dacryocystitis
C) Dacryolithiasis
D) Dacryoagogue
5. Esotropia is a form of
________.
A) Eyelid abnormalities
B) Strabismus
C) Ametropia
D) Myopia
6. Farsightedness:
A) Myopia
B) Ametropia
C) Diplopia
D) Hyperopia
7. A splitting of the retina =
retino_________.
A) -sclerosis
B) -schisis
C) -keratosis
D) -trichiasis

(Form A)
8. Eversion of the edge of the
eyelid:
A) Ectropion
B) Exotropia
C) Entropion
D) Esotropia
9. Inflammation of the white of
the eye:
A) Scleritis
B) Keratitis
C) Iritis
D) Retinitis
10. An instrument used for
measuring the movements (i.e.
turning) of the eye:
A) Ophthalmotropometer
B) Ophthalmotonometer
C) Ophthalmotopometer
D) Ophthalmotophometer
11. Watery liquid in the anterior
compartment of the eye:
A) Aqueous humor
B) Vitreous humor
C) Macula lutea
D) Fovea centralis
12. A triangular or wing-like
fibrous growth of conjunctival
tissue that extends onto the cornea
is called:
A) Hordeolum
B) Chalazion
C) Pterygium
D) Cataract
13. Dilatation of the pupil of the
eye resulting from disease:
A) Corectasia
B) Cornectopia
C) Heterochromia
D) Cornectasis
14. Abnormal overflow of tears:
A) Lacrimation
B) Ectropion
C) Epiphora
D) Trichiasis

Name: ___________________________________________________
15. A blind spot in ones field of
vision is best termed:
A) Nystagmus
B) Scotoma
C) Cataract
D) Exophthalmus
16. The ________ portion of the
conjunctiva is located closest to the
eyeball:
A) Palpebral
B) Fornical
C) Bulbar
17. Hordeolum =
A) Conjunctivitis
B) Calzone
C) Sty
D) Scotoma
18. A person with one blue and
one brown colored iris has:
A) Heterochromia
B) Anisocoria
C) Miosis
D) Achromatopsia
19. Drug which paralyzes the
ciliary muscle is best termed:
A) Cycloplegic
B) Iridoplegic
C) Miotic
D) Corneoplegic
20. Choose the best answer, a
practitioner who specializes in
visual measurement and correction
with eyeglasses, other visual aids:
A) Ophthalmologist
B) Optometrist
C) Otologist
21. Aur/i:
A) Ear
B) Sound
C) Hearing
D) Eardrum

22. True or False, inflammation of

the inner ear is termed otitis
medea:
A) True
B) False
23. A pennate (or pinnate)
structure resembles a:
A) Flag
B) Feather
C) Eardrum
D) Small writing utensil
24. Congenital malformation with
absence of the auricle:
A) Anacusia
B) Anotia
C) Auricle
D) Atresia
25. Inflammation of the ear, esp.
the middle ear, due to failure of
the Eustachian tube to remain
open during sudden changes in
pressure:
A) Bathotitis
B) Barotitis
C) Basotitis
D) Bathyotitis
26. Ringing in the ear:
A) Vertigo
B) Otodynia
C) Tinnitus
D) Otorrhea
27. Imperforated auditory meatus:
A) Anacusia
B) Anotia
C) Aural atresia
D) Otosclerosis
28. Gustation pertains to the sense
of:
A) Taste
B) Smell
C) Touch
D) Sight

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29. The root presby as in
presbyacusis means:
A) Dull
B) Old age
C) Hearing impairment
30. Ossicle of the middle ear whose
name means anvil:
A) Myringa
B) Malleus
C) Incus
D) Utricle
31. Earache:
A) Otorrhea
B) Otorrhagia
C) Tinnitus
D) Otodynia
32. The best term for
inflammation of the Eustachian
tube would be
Eustachian___________.
A) Salpingitis
B) Emphraxis
C) Labyrinthitis
D) Chalasis
33. Choose the best answer, a
ceruminous gland produces:
A) Lymph
B) Earwax
C) Sebum
D) Sweat
34. An abnormal sensitivity to
sound (i.e. a very keen sense of
hearing):
A) Ambiotia
B) Amphiacusis
C) Oxyotia
D) Oxyacusis
35. Choose the correct spelling:
A) Airotitis
B) Aerotitis
C) Aerotitus
D) Airotitus

(Form A)
36. Myringa=
A) Tympanum
B) Pinna
C) Malleus
D) Meatus
37. Lacus in lacus lacrimalis is:
A) A noun meaning lake
B) A nominative singular fourth
declension
C) A genitive fifth declension
D) A and B
E) A and C
38. Facei as in tinea facei is best
translated:
A) Of the face
B) Face
C) Faces
D) Of the faces
39. The changes in the endings of
the second term in hallux varus,
coxa vara, and genu varum
demonstrate how:
A) In Latin, an adjective must agree
with the case, number, and gender
of the noun it modifies
B) In Latin, a noun must agree with
the adjective it modifies
C) The different cases of the noun
varus
D) B and C
40. True or False, the adjective
parvus in musculus psoas parvus
indicates the muscle is small (i.e.
little):
A) True
B) False
41. Combining form for rotten:
A) Sapr/o
B) Picr/o
C) Salin/o
D) Glyc/o
E) A and B

Name: ___________________________________________________
42. Olfaction =
A) Osmosis
B) Osphresis
C) Olfactant
D) Gustation
43. Choose the best answer, the
combining form brom/o, as in
bromomenorrhea, means:
A) Foul
B) Rotten
C) Odor
D) Sour
44. The combining form tang/o, as
in tangoreceptor, means:
A) Dance
B) Pain
C) Touch
D) Taste
45. An unpleasant taste associated
with foods that normally taste
good:
A) Degustation
B) Parosphresis
C) Cacogeusia
D) Amblygeustia
46. Choose the best answer, a
substance (such as a sugar pill) or
an exposure (such as to an odor or
fragrance) that makes a person
feel ill, even though it has no
measurable negative effects:
A) Nocebo
B) Placebo
C) Vertigo
D) Celery
47. A sour taste is best described as
being:
A) Acetous
B) Saline
C) Acrid
D) Glycemic

48. True or False, rubor means

swelling, and it is one of the four
classical signs of inflammation.
A) True
B) False
49. True or False, ancient
intromission theory is the proposal
that visual perception is
accomplished by something (i.e.
rays or pneuma) being sent out
from the eyes:
A) True
B) False
50. True or False, the Hippocratic
Oath was written by Hippocrates
to be an ethical code for all
practitioners of medicine in
antiquity:
A) True
B) False
51. True or False, in the Midlle
Ages, the sensus communis was
used to refer to the perceptual area
of the first ventricle which
processes inputs of the individual
sense organs into a coherent and
intelligible representation of an
object:
A) True
B) False
52. True or False, Euclids Optics
uses extramission to geometrically
explain visual perspective:
A) True
B) False

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1. Lens:
A) Corne/o
B) Scler/o
C) Ophthalm/o
D) Phac/o
2. Combining form for cornea:
A) Phac/o
B) Kerat/o
C) Bulb/o
D) Scler/o
3. Equal vision in both eyes is
termed:
A) Myopia
B) Hyperopia
C) Heterotropia
D) Isopia
4. The palpebral portion of the
conjunctiva is located closest to the:
A) Sclera
B) Retina
C) Cornea
D) Eyelid
5. Another term used for
strabismus is:
A) Myopia
B) Heterotropia
C) Scotopia
D) Astigmatism
6. Another term for the lacrimal
sac:
A) Dacryocyst
B) Dacryoaden
C) Dacryocele
D) Dacryotome
7. Paralysis of the eyelid:
A) Iridoplegia
B) Cycloplegia
C) Blepharoplegia
D) Trichoplegia

(Form B)
8. The opposite of scotopia:
A) Myopia
B) Photopia
C) Asthenopia
D) Ambiopia
9. The condition of rapid oscillation
of the eyeballs (from the Greek word
for nodding) is called:
A) Astigmatism
B) Nystagmus
C) Exophthalmus
D) Epiphora
10. A form of ametropia in which the
refraction of a ray of light is spread
over a diffuse area rather than
sharply focused point on the retina:
A) Presbyopia
B) Ambiopia
C) Astigmatism
D) Amblyopia
11. A glassy semisolid mass in the
inner chamber of the eye:
A) Aqueous humor
B) Vitreous humor
C) Macula lutea
D) Pterygium
12. The ability to see distinctly for
only a short distance:
A) Hyperopia
B) Myopia
C) Isopia
D) Ambiopia
13. Abnormal contraction (i.e.
lessening) of the pupil:
A) Miosis
B) Cycloplegia
C) Astigmatism
D) Epiphora

Name: ___________________________________________________
14. The root flect- as in reflection
and dorsiflect means:
A) Break
B) Bend
C) Mirror
D) Image
15. A condition in which an artificial
lens has been implanted in the eye:
A) Pseudophakia
B) Retinoplast
C) Cyclopia
D) Corneoplasty
16. The yellow spot on the retina
responsible for central vision:
A) Pupil
B) Iris
C) Macula lutea
D) Fovea centralis
17. Conjunctivitis =
A) Sty
B) Calzone
C) Pinkeye
D) Pterygium
18. A condition in which the pupil is
to one side of the center of the iris
(i.e. it is out of place):
A) Anisocornectasia
B) Corectopia
C) Corectasia
D) Cornectopia
19. An inversion of the edge of the
eyelid:
A) Entropion
B) Ectropion
C) Esotropia
D) Exotropia
20. The colorful portion of the eye
whose name is associated with the
Greek goddess of the rainbow:
A) Pupil
B) Iris
C) Cornea
D) Sclera

21. Aur/i:
A) Ear
B) Sound
C) Hearing
D) Eardrum
22. True or False, inflammation of
the middle ear is termed otitis media:
A) True
B) False
23. Congenital malformation with
absence of the auricle:
A) Anacusia
B) Anotia
C) Auricle
D) Atresia
24. A pennate (or pinnate) structure
resembles a:
A) Flag
B) Feather
C) Eardrum
D) Small writing utensil
25. Which of the following is a
surgical procedure to the eardrum:
A) Stapedectomy
B) Myringotomy
C) Otoplasty
D) Tympanitis
26. An obstruction of the Eustachian
tube:
A) Salpingemphraxis
B) Tinnitus
C) Myringa
D) Salpingectasis
27. Imperforated auditory meatus:
A) Anacusia
B) Anotia
C) Aural atresia
D) Otosclerosis

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28. The root presby as in
presbyacusis means:
A) Dull
B) Old age
C) Hearing impairment
D) Ear
29. Ossicle of the middle ear whose
name means hammer:
A) Myringa
B) Malleus
C) Incus
D) Utricle
30. Purulent drainage from the ear:
A) Otorrhea
B) Otorrhagia
C) Tinnitus
D) Otodynia
31. Inflammation of the semicircular
canals and cochlea is best termed:
A) Tinnitus
B) Labyrinthitis
C) Otitis medea
D) Meatitis
32. Choose the best answer, a
ceruminous gland produces:
A) Lymph
B) Earwax
C) Sweat
D) Sebum
33. An abnormal sensitivity to sound
(i.e. a very keen sense of hearing):
A) Ambiotia
B) Amphiacusis
C) Oxyotia
D) Oxyacusis
34. Choose the correct spelling:
A) Airotitis
B) Aerotitis
C) Aerotitus
D) Airotitus

(Form B)
35. Myringa=
A) Tympanum
B) Pinna
C) Malleus
D) Meatus
36. Sinuum in confluens sinuum is
best translated:
A) Of a sinus
B) Of the sinuses
C) Sinuses
D) Sinus
37. Scabiei in acarus scabiei is a:
A) First declension genitive singular
noun
B) Fifth declension genitive singular
noun
C) Fourth declension nominative
singular noun
D) Second declension nominative
singular noun
38. The changes in the endings of the
second term in hallux varus, coxa
vara, and genu varum demonstrate
how:
A) In Latin, an adjective must agree
with the case, number, and gender of
the noun it modifies
B) In Latin, a noun must agree with the
adjective it modifies
C) The different cases of the noun varus
D) B and C
39. True of False, the term planus in
pes planus is a noun indicating the
foot is flat or level:
A) True
B) False
40. Olfaction =
A) Osmosis
B) Osphresis
C) Olfactant
D) Gustation

Name: ___________________________________________________
41. The combining form tang/o, as in
tangoreceptor, means:
A) Dance
B) Smell
C) Touch
D) Taste
42. A sensation of cold in a part of
the body, even though it is warm:
A) Cryostat
B) Psychroesthesia
C) Thermoesthesia
D) Nociception
43. Combining form for bitter:
A) Sapr/o
B) Picr/o
C) Salin/o
D) Glyc/o
44. Choose the best answer, a
substance (such as a sugar pill) or an
exposure (such as to an odor or
fragrance) that makes a person feel
ill, even though it has no measurable
negative effects:
A) Nocebo
B) Placebo
C) Tinnitus
D) Celery
45. A receptor in the brain that is
sensitive to olfactory stimuli:
A) Osmoreceptor
B) Ozoreceptor
C) Nociceptor
D) Tangoreceptor
46. A sour taste is best described as
being:
A) Acetous
B) Saline
C) Acrid
D) Glycemic

47. True or False, rubor means red

or redness, and it is one of the four
classical signs of inflammation.
A) True
B) False
48. True or False, ancient
extramission theory is the proposal
that visual perception is
accomplished by something (i.e. rays
or pneuma) being sent out from the
eyes:
A) True
B) False
49. True or False, the Hippocratic
Oath was written by Hippocrates to
be an ethical code for all
practitioners of medicine in
antiquity:
A) True
B) False
50. True or False, in the Middle Ages
the sensus communis was used to
refer to the perceptual area of the
first ventricle which processes inputs
of the individual sense organs into a
coherent and intelligible
representation of an object:
A) True
B) False
51. True or False, Euclids Optics
uses extramission to geometrically
explain visual perspective:
A) True
B) False
52. Gustation pertains to the sense
of:
A) Taste
B) Smell
C) Touch
D) Sight