2024 VTNE Medical Terminology Latest Questions With Complete Grade A Answers
- What is the correct term for blood in the urine?
Answer: Hematuria
- What is the correct term for an increased leukocyte count not due to cancer?
Answer: Leukocytosis
- What organ or area is affected by mastitis?
Answer: Mammary glands
- What is the correct term for sticking a needle into a lymph node and aspirating
cells for examination?
Answer: Lymphocentesis
- What is the correct term for inflammation of the urinary bladder?
Answer: Cystitis
- What is the correct term for the surgical removal of a mammary gland?
Answer: -Mastectomy
- What does the term anorexia mean?
Answer: Not eating
- What is the correct term for the instrument used to examine ears?
Answer: Otoscope
- What term means "fever"?
Answer: Pyrexia
- What is the term for inflammation of the brain and spinal cord?
Answer: Encephalomyelitis
- What is the term that refers to a benign black tumor?
Answer: Melanoma
- What is the name of the device used to count blood cells?
Answer: Hemocytometer
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- A dog's spleen is enlarged. What is the correct term for this condition?
Answer: -Splenomegaly
- What is the correct term for a radiograph taken with air in the urinary bladder?
Answer: Pneumocystogram
- What is the correct term for surgically creating a new opening into the urethra?
Answer: Urethrostomy
- What is the correct term for heart muscle disease?
Answer: Cardiomyopathy
- What is the term that means "A condition of death"?
Answer: Necrosis
- Sometimes lymph nodes enlarge because of an increase in the number of cells.
What is the term for overdevelopment because of an increase in the number of cells?
Answer: Hyperplasia
- What term refers to an inflammation of the kidney?
Answer: Nephritis
- What structure is inflamed in a keratitis?
Answer: Cornea
- A dog is born with a soft, swollen area over the anterior cranium. The
veterinarian suspects "water on the brain." What is the correct medical term for this condition?
Answer: Hydrocephalus
22. Orthopedics is the medical specialty concerned with: Muscle and bone
- Which of the following cells is normally found in red bone marrow?
Oocyte Squamous cell Myocyte Myelocyte
Answer: Myelocyte
- What is the term for a blood clot that travels through the circulation?
Answer: -Thromboembolus
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- Which of the following literally means the "study of no feeling"?
Answer: Anesthesiology
- What is the name of the area where the upper and lower eyelids meet?
Answer: -Canthus
- A collie is born with eyes smaller than normal. What is this called?
Answer: Micropthalmia
- A cataract is found in what structure?
Answer: Lens of the eye
- Which of the following terms means "difficult breathing"? Dystrophy
Tachypnea Pneumothorax Dysnpea
Answer: Dyspnea
- What is the term for a malignant bone tumor?
Answer: Osteosarcoma
- What is the term for the procedure in which a sterile needle is inserted into the
chest and fluid is withdrawn into a syringe?
Answer: Thoracocentesis
- What term refers to the medical specialty that deals primarily with tumors?-
Answer: Oncology
- The veterinarian has noted in a dog's record that alopecia is present. This means
which of the following conditions is present?Itching Diarrhea Not eating Hair loss
Answer: Hair loss
- What term refers to an animal drinking more water than normal?
Answer: Polydipsia
- A dog has had a cast on its leg for 5 weeks. When the cast is removed, the
muscles on the affected leg are smaller than the muscles on the other leg. What is the term used to describe this condition?
Answer: Muscular atrophy
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