Question | Answer |
The principles and methods of mechanics applied to the structure and function of the human body | Biomechanics |
Distortions of health that result when functions or systems are neither balanced nor working at their optimum. | Disharmony |
A branch of mechanics that involves the aspects of time, space, and mass as a moving system. | Kinematics |
The study of mvmt. that combines the fields of anatomy, physiology, physics, and geometry and relates to human mvmt. | Kinesiology |
The forces causing mvmt. | Kinetics |
The branch of physics dealing with the study of forces and the motion produced by their actions | Mechanics |
Word meaning "the life force" | Chi,Qi |
What does SOAP stand for in charting? | Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan |
Which of the two body cavities holds the brain inside the skull and the spinal cord in the vertebral column? | Dorsal Cavity |
Which one of the two body cavities make up the combined thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities, aka abdominopelvic cavity? | Ventral Cavity |
The same side | Ipsilateral |
The opposite side | Contralateral |
The palm side of the hand | Volar (Palmar) |
Ends bend inward;angulation of a part of the body inward towards the midline | Varus |
Ends bent outward; angulation of a part of the body outward from the midline; for example, bent toward the wall | Valgus |
Right | Dextral |
Left;levo | Sinistral |
Describes polar relationships/dynamic balance between opposing forces & the continual process of creation & destruction | Yin/Yang |
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Infra (p) | Beneath |
Juxta- (p) | Adjoining, near to |
Levo (p) | Left |
Neo (p) | New |
Olig (p) | Small, scanty |
Ortho(o) | Straight, erect, correct |
Osm(io,o) (p) | Smell, odor |
Oxy- (p) | Sharp, acute, acid |
Pan (p) | All |
Para- (p) | Abnormal |
Peri (p) | Around |
Poly (p) | Many, much |
Retro (p) | Backward |
Schist (p) | Split, divided |
Son(o) (p) | Sounds |
Steno- (p) | Contracted, narrow |
Strat(i) (p) | Layer |
Tract (p) | Pull down |
Zyg(o,us) (p) | Yoke, join, together |
Aden(o) (r) | Gland |
Angi(o) (r) | Vessel |
Cephal(o) (r) | Head |
Chrondr(o) (r) | Cartilage |
Cyst(o) (r) | Bladder, cyst |
Encephal(o) (r) | Brain |
Enter(o) (r) | Intestines |
Gloss(o) (r) | Tongue |
Hepat(o) (r) | Liver |
My(o) (r) | Muscle |
Myel(o) (r) | Spinal Cord, bone marrow |
Nephr(o) (r) | Kidney |
Ophthalm(o) (r) | Eye |
Orth(o) (r) | Straight, normal, correct |
Ot(o) (r) | Ear |
Py(o) (r) | Pus |
Rhin(o) (r) | Nose |
Salpingo(o) | Eustachean Tube |