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Medical Language
Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Chronic | It had been going on for awhile now |
| Palpation | to feel |
| Prone | lying down on belly |
| Ventral/antral/anterior | the front the word ventral means "stomach" |
| Dorsum | the top of the hand or foot |
| Sagittal | divides the body in slices right to left think of it as dividing the body in half |
| Coronal | divides the body into slice from front to back |
| Transverse | divides the body from top to bottom |
| CV | cardiovascular |
| WNL | within normal limits |
| Rx | prescription |