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Med Term II-DPT
Terms pertaining to body as a whole
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |