Prefix
What pair of foundational prefixes denotes opposites regarding pressure or normal baseline levels, representing "above/excessive" and "under/deficient"?
What are Hyper- and Hypo-?
The suffixes -algia and -dynia pertain to what common symptom found in the medical world?
What is pain?
Which plane divides the body vertically into the right and left half?
What is the sagittal plane (or midsagittal plane)?
What does the prefix/root my/o refer to?
What is muscle?
In the skeletal system what does the prefix/root “myel/o-” refer to?
What is the spinal cord (or bone marrow)?
What do the prefixes eu- and mal- mean?
What are "good, well, or normal" (eu-) and "bad or abnormal" (mal-)?
Which of the following suffixes refers to a surgical procedure rather than recording, measuring, or examining?: -gram, -graph, -graphy, -centesis, -meter, -opsy?
What is -centesis (surgical puncture to remove fluid)?
What two words describe position in a limb that is close to a point of attachment and far from a point of attachment?
What are proximal (nearer to attachment) and distal (farther from attachment)?
Provide an example of each way to classify a muscle (does not have to be an actual muscle): 1. Divisions — Number of Origins or Heads, 2. Size
What are: 1. Biceps, Triceps, or Quadriceps (divisions by heads) and 2. Maximus, Minimus, Major, Minor, Longus, Brevis, or Magnus (size classifications)?
Provide one of the three prefixes/roots that mean vertebra/spine.
What is either spondyl/o or vertebr/o (or rach/i/o)?
Looking at descriptions: what are the prefixes for “cold” and “colour”?
What are cry/o- (cold) and chrom- or chromato- (color)?
What is the difference between -pexy and -desis?
What is -pexy (surgical fixation) versus -desis (surgical binding)?
What are the parietal and visceral layers of the body?
What are the parietal layer (pertaining to the wall of a body cavity) and the visceral layer (pertaining to an organ within a body cavity)?
What is a sarcomere?
What is a force-producing unit in a striated muscle tissue?
What do the suffixes -clasia, -clasis, -clast refer to? 1 meaning for all.
What is "break"?
Differentiate between: inter, intra, infra.
What are inter- (between), intra- (within), and infra- (beneath)?
What do these similar sounding suffixes mean: -ectomy, -otomy, -ostomy?
What are cut out/removal (-ectomy), incision (-otomy), and a surgically created opening (-ostomy)
Which of the following is NOT a body cavity? A. Cranial, B. Pleural, C. Mediastinum, D. Pericardial
What is C. Mediastinum (it is a central region or space within the thoracic cavity, not a standalone body cavity itself)?
What does the prefix/root desm/o- refer to?
What is a ligament?
Which of the following does not refer to a bone: ili/o, ischi/o, radi/o, pub/o, carp/o?
What is burs/o?
What do each of these location prefixes mean: Ab-, Ad-, De-, and Dia-?
What are away from (ab-, de-), towards (ad-), and across/through (dia-)
Name at least 4 of the 9 suffixes that mean pertaining to
-ic, -al, -ary, -ous, -ar, -eal, -tic, -ity, -ial.
Name 4 anatomical terms(any valid directional terms from the notes) from the ones we have covered excluding distal and proximal
What are terms like anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, medial, lateral, superficial, or deep?
Differentiate between rhabdomy/o and leiomy/o.
What is rhabdomy/o (referring to skeletal or striated muscle) versus leiomy/o (referring to smooth or visceral muscle)?
Scoli/o, kyph/o, lord/o are all different ways to describe the way of the spine. What do they each mean?
What are scoli/o (twisted/crooked/lateral curvature), kyph/o (humped/increased convexity), and lord/o (increased concavity/inward curve)?