Prefixes & Suffixes
The prefix brady- means this.
What is slow?
This muscular tube carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This chamber receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins.
What is the left atrium?
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
These white blood cells produce antibodies after activation by helper T cells.
What are B lymphocytes (B cells)?
The suffix -ectomy means this type of procedure.
What is surgical removal?
These finger-like projections dramatically increase the absorptive surface area of the small intestine.
What are villi?
This valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle.
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
This insulating layer around many axons increases the speed of nerve impulse conduction.
What is the myelin sheath?
These immune cells are the first responders to most bacterial infections and perform phagocytosis.
What are neutrophils?
The prefix endo- means this anatomical location.
What is within or inside?
These specialized capillaries within the intestinal villi absorb dietary fats.
What are lacteals?
This thick muscular chamber pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta and throughout the body.
What is the left ventricle?
This lobe of the brain contains the primary motor cortex.
What is the frontal lobe?
These antigen-presenting cells engulf pathogens and activate naïve T cells by displaying antigens on MHC II molecules.
What are macrophages?
A patient with tachycardia has this abnormality.
What is an abnormally fast heart rate?
This section of the small intestine is the primary site where most chemical digestion is completed and where pancreatic enzymes and bile enter through the major duodenal papilla.
What is the duodenum?
This valve is located between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This membrane surrounds the entire central nervous system and contains cerebrospinal fluid between two of its layers.
What are the meninges?
These lymphoid organs are the site where T lymphocytes mature before becoming immunocompetent
What is the thymus?
A physician documents inflammation of the liver using this medical term.
What is hepatitis? (hepat/o + -itis)
These microscopic structures between adjacent epithelial cells help prevent digestive enzymes and bacteria from leaking between intestinal cells.
What are tight junctions?
This specialized type of muscle tissue makes up the walls of the heart and contracts involuntarily to pump blood.
What is myocardial tissue (cardiac muscle tissue)?
These glial cells form myelin in the central nervous system, while Schwann cells perform the same function in the peripheral nervous system.
What are oligodendrocytes?
These large granular lymphocytes destroy virus-infected and tumor cells without prior sensitization and do not require antigen presentation on MHC molecules.
What are natural killer (NK) cells?