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Prefix/Suffix
| Question | Towards the feet |
|---|---|
| OCCLUDE | Close up, stop flow of, obstruct a passage |
| 3. Meaning of SUPER | Above |
| MEDIAN PLANE | A plane that divides the left and right sides of the body |
| DYS | Pain or difficult |
| -ECTOMY | To surgically remove |
| prefix IPSI | Self or Same |
| INFERIOR | Lower than another structure, or below |
| INSUFFLATION | Introduction of air or gas into a cavity |
| TRANSVERSE PLANE | A plane that divides the body horizontally into upper and lower parts |
| DUODENUM | The first portion of the small intestine |
| prefix PER | Through |
| SUPERIOR | Higher than a structure, or above |
| prefix EX,EC | Out of, Out from |
| ILEUM | The lower portion of the small intestine |
| DESUFFLATION | Release of air or gas out of cavity |
| CEPHALAD | Towards the head |
| prefix PARA | Beside,near |
| JEJUNUM | The second portion of the small intestine |
| BILE is a yellow-greenish fluid produced by | Liver |
| What does MIDLINE separate: | Left and right halves of body |
| VISCERA | A broad term referring to all internal organs as a whole |
| O-SCOPY | Look inside |
| TRANS | Across |
| To ‘Cut into or make an opening’: | Ostomy |
| Means ‘In front of’ | Ante |
| Surgical joining of two tubular structures | Anastomosis |
| DISTAL | Away from the midline |
| Root word for ‘nerve’ | NEURO |
| RETRO | Back, backward, behind |
| LATERAL | Away from midline |
| CHOLODOCHO | Bile duct |
| Blood | HEMO |
| FASCIA | Fibrous membrane covering, supporting, and separating muscles |
| Ureter | URETERO |
| NEPH | Kidneys |
| LUMEN | The open space within a tube or organ |
| PERI | Around |
| O-LOGY | Study of |
| Root word for Ovary | OOPHERO |
| CHOLECYSTITIS | Inflammation of gallbladder |
| PROXIMAL | Toward the point of origin |
| Root word for vessel | VES |
| GASTRO | Stomach |
| Root word for bile | CHOLE |
| MEDIAL | Toward the midline |
| Root word for stone | LITH |
| CONTRA | Against |
| Prefix for sick | PATH |
| HYSTERO | Uterus |
| DISSECT | Separating tissue along its natural lies of separation |
| Prefix means air | PNEUMO |
| SALPINGO | Fallopian Tubes |
| LAPARO | Abdomen |
| Colo | Colon |
| STRICTURE | Narrowing or constriction of the lumen of a tube, duct, or hollow organ |
| TRANSECT | To cut across tissue or an organ |
| RESECT | To remove all or a large portion of an organ |
| EXCISE | To cut away or take out |
| BIOPSY | Removal of tissue for microscope exam |
| ACUTE | Disease characterized by sudden onset and short duration |
| CHRONIC | A disease condition of slow onset and long duration |
| The stretching or opening of a narrow tube, channel, or hollow organ | DILATION |
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