Question | Answer |
Muscular System | Makes movement possible |
Skeletal System | Provides protection; form and shape for the body, stores minerals and forms some blood cells |
Cardiovascular System | Delivers oxygen, nutrients, and vital substances throughout the body; transports cellular waste products to the lungs and kidneys for excretion |
Lymphatic System | helps maintain the internal fluid environment; produces some types of blood cells; regulates immunity |
Respiratory System | Brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide and some water waste |
Digestive System | Provides the body with water, nutrients and minerals; removes solid wastes |
Urinary System | Filters blood to remove wastes of cellular metabolism; maintains the electrolyte and fluid balance |
Reproductive system | Facilitates procreation |
Integumentary system | Provides external covering for protections; regulates the body temperature and water content |
Nervous system | Coordinates the reception of stimuli; transmits messages to stimulate movement |
Endocrine system | Secretes hormones and helps regulate body activities |
anter/o | nearer to or toward the front; ventral |
poster/o | nearer to or toward the back; situated behind |
ventr/o | belly side; same as anterior surface in human beings |
dors/o | directed toward or situated on the back side; same as posterior surface in human beings |
medi/o | middle or nearer the middle |
later/o | toward the side; denoting a position farther from the midline of the body or from a structure |
super/o | uppermost or above |
infer/o | lowermost or below |
proxim/o | nearer the origin or point of attachment |
dist/o | far or distant from the origin or point of attachment |
cephal/o | toward the head |
caud/o | toward the tail or in an inferior direction in human beings |
abdomin/o | abdomen |
acr/o | extremities (arms and legs) |
blephar/o | eyelid |
cyst/o | cyst, bladder or sac |
dactyl/o | digit (toes, fingers) |
lapar/o | abdominal wall |
omphal/o | umbilicus (navel) |
onych/o | nail |
pelv/i | pelvis |
periton/o | peritoneum |
som/a | body |
somat/o | body |
thorac/o | chest (thorax) |
RUQ | Right Upper Quadrant |
RLQ | Right Lower Quadrant |
LLQ | Left Lower Quadrant |
LUQ | Left Upper Quadrant |
crin/o | secrete |
-crine | secrete |
dacry/o | tear, tearing, crying |
lacrim/o | tear, tearing, crying |
-emia | condition of the blood |
hem/o | blood |
hemat/o | blood |
hidr/o | sweat or perspiration |
lymph/o | lymph |
muc/o | mucus |
-poiesis | production |
-poietin | substance that causes production |
py/o | pus |
sial/o | saliva |
ur/o | urine |
Hematoma | localized collection of blood (bruise) |
hemolysis | destruction of red blood cells |
hemodialysis | diffusing blood through a semipermeable membrane to remove toxic materials (for people with impaired kidney function) |
coagulation | blood clotting when removed from body |
anticoagulant | substance that prevents coagulation (forming blood clots) |
Thrombosis | formation of internal blood clots |
thrombocytes | platelets |
erythrocytes | red blood cells |
leukocytes | white blood cells |
antigen | substance that is capable of inducing a specific immune response |
antibodies | the immune response brought about by an antigen |
Susceptibility | lack of resistance or protection from infectious organisms |
Immunization | process by which resistance to an infectious disease is induced or augmented |
Active immunity | individual's own body produces and immune response to a harmful antigen |
Passive immunity | immune agents response develop in another person or animal and then are transferred to an individual who was not previously immune (borrowed immunity - effective for a short time) |
Vaccination | any injection or ingestion of inactivated or killed microbes or their products that is administered to induce immunity |
immunocompromised | immune response that has been weakened by a disease or immunosuppressive agent (drugs, radiation) |
Allergies | body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to common, harmless substances, most of which are found in the environment |
anaphylaxis | exaggerated, life-threatening hypersensitivity reactions t oa previously encountered antigen |
benign | favorable for recovery, not having a tendency to spread (not cancer) |
Malignant | tending to grow worse, to spread, and possibly become life threatening (cancer). |
metastases | spreading from one part of the body to another part |
Bioterrorism | use of pathogenic biological agents to cause terror in a population |