Medical Terminology Glossary Quiz

A rare, inherited (X-linked) disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, skeletal and genital anomalies.

It is the largest and outermost muscle of the three flat muscles of the lateral anterior abdominal wall.

It lies below the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscles.

<p>It abducts (straightens) the thumb.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collection of pus that has built up within.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Aarskog-Scott syndrome is a rare, inherited (X-linked) disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, skeletal and genital anomalies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The function of the abductor pollicis longus muscle is to abduct the thumb at the wrist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The abdominal external oblique muscle is the largest, and outermost, of the three flat muscles of the lateral anterior abdominal wall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The abductor pollicis brevis muscle is located in the hand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An abscess is a collection of pus that has built up within the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers