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Fall TEKS 2025 MedTe
Medical Terminology Fall 2025 TEKS Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adduction | moving a limb toward the midline of the body |
| abduction | moving a limb away from the midline of the body |
| aden/o | gland |
| anatomical position | the upright position with the arms at the side, and the head, palms, and feet facing forward |
| angi/o | blood vessel or lymph vessel |
| anterior | front, on the front of an organ, front side of the body; opposite posterior |
| anti- | against |
| arthr/o | joint |
| bi- | twice, double, two |
| bone fracture | a break, crack, or chip in a bone |
| cardi/o | heart, pertaining to the heart |
| chrondri/o | cartilage |
| cranial cavity | the hollow space inside the skull that protects the brain, along with its associated membranes, blood vessels, and cerebrospinal fluid |
| -cyte | cell |
| dys- | difficult, painful, bad |
| -ectomy | surgical removal of |
| endo- | within, innermost |
| erythr/o | red |
| frontal plane (coronal) | divides the body into front and back sections |
| -graphy | recording (process) |
| hem/o | blood, relating to the blood |
| hist/o | tissue |
| hypo- | decreased, deficient, low, under, less than normal |
| inferior | lowermost, below, or toward the feet; opposite superior |
| left ventricle of the heart | the left lower chamber of the heart that is a pumping chamber; it receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium (left upper chamber of the heart) the left ventricle pumps blood to all body parts except the lungs |
| -malacia | softening, softening of tissue |
| metacarpals | the long bones in the hand that connect the wrist (carpals) and the fingers (phalanges) |
| my/o | muscle |
| -necrosis | the condition of death, the death of most or all of the cells in a tissue |
| neo- | new, strange |
| -ologist | person who studies |
| -ology | the study of |
| -oma | tumor, mass, fluid connection, swelling |
| -osis | condition, state, process |
| oste/o | bone |
| pandemic | an epidemic of disease that has spread globally across many countries (international) |
| epidemic | the rapid spread of disease in a country or region (regionally) |