University of Arkansas
Fall, 2002. FLAN 3002
D. B. Levine
Practice for the Midterm Examination
Be able to give an analysis of each of the following boldface words:
1. There is no special treatment of typical psychosomatic diseases as opposed to other diseases; in the treatment of all illnesses certain therapeutic procedures are appropriate for psychological as well as for somatic components.
2. Lagging or regenerative activity behind the physiologic wear and tear of tissues characterizes senescence. Senile osteoporosis is in fact the most common variety of osteoporosis.
3. The clinical picture presented by encephalitis depends upon the area of the central nervous system involved, rather than the type or kind of virus which causes the damage.
4. Malignant nephrosclerosis is differentiated from glomerulonephritis by the rapidity of onset of sever hypertension, quickly followed by renal involvement.
Define cholecystenterostomy:
What is the difference between a myoma and a myeloma?
What two parts of the body are involved in the condition called ostemia?
What two body parts are involved in the condition hemonephrosis?
When she learned that her husband had to undergo a hemigastrectomy, Phyllis jokingly said that from now on he might want to consider only looking at the children's menu the next time they go a restaurant. Why did she say that?
If you have a cardiectomy, what major side effect might you expect?
What are eubiotics?
What is gastrology?
Identify the following as Nouns (N) or Adjectives (A):
paralytic nephromalacia nephrotoxic
dysphasia sclerotic hypertrophy
insomniac hemophiliac hematologist
calorific subfebrile virucidal
laryngitis spermatic phlegmatic
traumatic ectoplasm hemiplegia
dysmenorrhea cyanotic dorsal
senile tussive somnolent
bilious ocular salivary
Be prepared to analyze the following words which we have reports on in class:
Stasibasiphobia
Somnambulist
Procrastinate
Chromatoptometry
Gastroenterologist
Pyelonephritis
Trypanophobia
Sporogenesis
Commemoration
Otomycosis
Keratoleucoma
sinistrotorsion
Pseudacousma
Polydactylism
Trichotillomania
Xanthocyanopia
Polydysplasia
Glossolalia
Splenohepatomegaly
Hypoglycemia
Diapedesis
Phocomelia
Data is information that is ________________ .
At a convention, the delegates have __________________ together
Status is an indication of one's social _____________________ .
A tenant ____________________ his property.
"Please remit payment" is a polite way of saying "_____________ back the money."
If something is virucidal, you would expect that it would _________ (verb) _________ (noun).
A dextrocardiogram is a _____________ of the ___________ side of the ________________.
How many oxen were originally in a hecatomb?
How many meters does a kilometer contain?
How many sides does a tetrahedron have?
A biblical law presented in the book of Deuteronomy is likely being presented for the _____________ time.
A malevolent individual has ______ wishes towards other.
The pantheon is a group of ________ the __________ .
An acropolis is literally a ____________ _____________ .
Literally, a dormitory is a place where students can ___________ .
The alimentary canal is something we need in order to _________ our bodies.
An acrid smell is something ___________ .
If an army pacifies a region, it _____________ (verb) it ____________ (noun).
How is the word senate related to the word senescence?
What do we mean by an INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE?
What do we mean by a ROMANCE LANGUAGE?
Latin nouns have various cases. What is the case of the SUBJECT?
From which case of Latin nouns do we get most stems used in English words?
When we see the following Latin stems, what words do we think of?
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example: fer-, lat carry
voca-, vocat- tene- (-tine-), tent- dice-, dict-
mitte-, miss- scribe-, script- age-, act-
loque-, locut- pone-, posit- sta-, stat
Define epidemic, endemic, and pandemic so as to bring out the distinctions between them:
epidemic:
pandemic:
endemic:
To ameliorate a situation is to make it ___________________ .
E PLURIBUS UNUM means ___________________________ .
When his friends called Fred "uxorious" when he said he could not come bowling with them, they meant that Fred displayed what sort of behavior? _____________________________________________
Write the basic meanings of the following prefixes:
com-, col-, con-, cor-, co- _____________________________
ex-, e- _____________________________
inter- _____________________________
sub-, suc-, suf-, sug-, sup-, sus- _____________________________
amphi- _____________________________
dia- _____________________________
hypo-, hyph- _____________________________
syn-, syl-, sym-, sys- _____________________________
The following list contains ten pairs of words that are linguistically related. Select the pairs and show what the relationship between the words is.
Example: syntax/tactics both come from the Greek "tatto" "to station, place, assign". [Syn] tax is putting words together in their proper places, and tactics is science of putting troops in their positions for battle.
anecdote biology diphthong apophthegm
ballistics dilemma diarrhea dialectical
dose dyarchy epilepsy exodus
optical panorama periodical rheumatic
syntax telephone synchronize skeptical
periscope periscope symbol telegram
tactics