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Unit 1 Med Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |