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Med Term II-DPT
Terms pertaining to body as a whole
Question | Answer |
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RUQ | right upper quadrant |
LUG | left upper quadrant |
RLQ | right lower quadrant |
LLQ | left lower quadrant |
hypochondriac region | upper right and left regions beheath the ribs. |
epigastric region | upper middle region above the stomach |
lumbar region | middle right and left regions near the waist |
inguinal region | lower right and left regions near the groin. (aka iliac regions) |
hypogastric region | lower middle region below the umbilical region. |
abdomin/o | abdomen |
adip/o | fat |
-ose | pertaining to; full of |
anter/o | front |
-ior | pertaining to |
bol/o | to cast (throw) |
ana- | up |
-ism | process |
anabolism | the process of casting up (building up) |
cervic/o | neck (of the body or the uterus) |
chondr/o | cartilage |
chondroma | tumor of cartilage (it is a benign tumor) |
chondrosarcoma | malignant flesh tumor of cartilage |
chrom/o | color |
-somes | bodies |
coccyg/o | coccyx |
crani/o | skull |
craniotomy | incision of the skull |
cyt/o | cell |
-plasm | formation |
cytoplasm | content formation of a cell |
dist/o | far, distant |
dors/o | back portion of the body |
hist/o | tissue |
ili/o | ilium |
inguin/o | groin |
kary/o | nucleus |
-type | classification or picture |
karyotype | picture of the nucleus |
later/o | side |
lumb/o | lower back |
medi/o | middle |
nucle/o | nucleus |
nucleic | pertaining to the nucleus |
pelv/o | hip; pelvic cavity |
poster/o | back; behind |
proxim/o | nearest |
sacr/o | sacrum |
sarc/o | flesh |
spin/o | spine; backbrone |
thel/o | nipple |
thorac/o | chest |
thoracotomy | incision of the chest |
trache/o | trachea; windpipe |
unbilic/o | navel, umbilicus |
ventr/o | belly side of the body |
vertebr/o | vertebrae; backbones |
viscer/o | internal organs |
ana- | up |
cata- | down |
catabolism | process of breaking down cells (to release energy) |
epi- | above |
inter- | between |
meta- | change |
-eal | pertaining to |
-iac | pertaining to |
-ior | pertaining to |
-ism | pertaining to |
-ose | pertaining to; full of |
-plasm | formation |
-somes | bodies |
-type | picture; classification |