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Unit 1 Med Term
Question | Answer |
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a-, algia | not/without |
algia | pain |
itis | inflammation |
trans | across |
inter | between |
pathy | disease |
peri | around, surrounding |
-oma | tumor, mass |
-ial | pertaining to |
cyt/o | cell |
path/o | disease |
gastr/o | stomach |
super/o | above |
cephal/o | head |
arthr/o | joint |
my/o | muscle |
lip/o | fat |
medi/o | c |
ventr/o | belly side of body |
retro | back |
hypo | below |
gram | picture |
acr/o | extremitites |
brachi/o | arm |
chondr/o | cartilage |
crani/o | skull |
kyph/o | humpback |
orth/o | straight |
ped/o | foot;child |
pyret/o | fever |
sacr/o | sancrum |
tars/o | ankle |
meta | change |
sub | below/under |
supra | above |
al,ic | pertaining to |
ation | process, condition |
ectomy | surgical removal, excision |
penia | defiency |
plasty | surgical repair |
scope | instruments used to view |
caudal | towards the lower part of the body |
distal | situated farthest from the middle of beginning of a body structure |
bilateral | both/relating to 2 sides |
gram | picture |
cranial cavity | formed by cranial bones and contains brain |
vertebrl canal | formed by verterbral column and contains spianl cord and beg. of spinal nerves |
thoracic cavity | chest cavity, contains pleural & pericardial cavities and mediapstimum |
pleural cavity | potential space between the layers of the pleura |
pericardial cavity | potential space between the layers of the peri cardium that surround the heart |
mediastinum | central portion of thoracic cavity between the lungs |
abdominopelvic cavity | subdivided into abdominal and pelvic cavities |
abdominal cavity | contains stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder, small intestine and most large intestine |
pelvic cavity | contains urinary bladder portions of large intestine, and internal organs of reproduction. |