What's in a Word?
This part of a term shares its foundation with plants.
What is the root?
This axis is not latitude.
What is the longitudinal axis?
Using the acronym GLASS, you could find this organ in the RLQ of the abdomen.
What is the appendix?
You could call this system the body's information superhighway.
What is the nervous system?
Moving away from the point of attachment.
What is distal?
Micr/o represents this part of a term.
What is the prefix?
This plane divides cranial from caudal.
What is the transverse (axial) plane?
This structure is located distal to the elbow and proximal to the fingers.
What is the wrist?
This is the system tasked with delivering nutrients and waste throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Compared to the navel, the axilla is this.
This is used to bring a term together, much like a hitch connecting two train cars.
What is a combining vowel?
This is not a Zodiac sign, this is a plane.
What is the sagittal plane?
Distal to the diaphragm in the retroperitoneal space, these bilateral organs help mediate blood pressure.
What are the kidneys?
These are the lymphatic system's three primary functions.
The manubrium does not consider itself better than the xiphoid process, but it is this.
This can be used to describe a type of fracture, but in this case is much more stable.
What is a compound word?
Medi/o is the combining form of this axis.
What is the mediolateral axis?
This structure is located in the anterior thorax, medial to the lungs, superior to the diaphragm, and deep to the sternum.
What is the heart?
A buildup of lactic acid indicates that this system is functioning anaerobically.
What is the muscular/musculoskeletal system?
While you may not be a dolphin, your anterior and posterior aspects can also be called this.
What are ventral and dorsal?
If you've watched Dragon Ball Z, you've probably seen two characters perform this action to greatly increase their fighting prowess.
What is combining form?
Sounding similar to an alcoholic beverage, or a virus, a trip on this plane will result in moving from front to back.
What is the coronal plane?
This respiratory structure is located in the visceral mediastinum, posterior to the esophagus, and sits on the axial plane at the level of the T5 vertebrae.
What is the carina?
Dysfunction of this system may result in disorders of metabolism, growth, reproduction, or homeostasis.
What is the endocrine system?
Don't get ballsy, that's ipsilateral palsy.
What is one-sided?