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Planes & Regions
Directional Terms
Cavities of the body
Medical Word Elements
100

This medical term means pertaining to fatty tissue?

What is adipose?

100
This is the imaginary flat surface that divides the body into two sections.
What is a plane?
100
This is a term means 'pertaining to the tail'?
What is caudal?
100
This is a hollow space containing body organs.
What is cavity?
100

anter/o

What is the combining form for 'toward the front'?

200

This term means a well-portioned body.

What is mesomorph?

200
This is the middle, or median plane named?
what is midsagittal?
200
This is the directional term that pertains to a side.
What is lateral?
200
This is the division term for the hollow portion of the human torso extending from the neck to the pelvis on the anterior side of the body.
What is ventral cavity?
200

caud/o

What is the combining form meaning 'tail'?

300

This term means pertaining to the groin?

What is inguinal?

300
This is the plane that creates an anterior and posterior side to a body.
What is coronal or frontal?
300
This is The directional term for toward the head or upper portion of a structure.
What is superior?
300
This is the cavity in the space of the skull containing the brain.
What is cranial?
300
poster/o
What is the combining form meaning back?
400

This is the term for the study of cells.

What is cytology?

400
This is the plane that divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is transverse or horizontal plane?
400
This is the directional term for nearer to the center or to the point of attachment to the body.
What is proximal?
400

This term means pertaining to body organs enclosed within a cavity, especially the abdominal organs.

What is visceral?

400

cervic/o

What is the combining form meaning neck?

500

This is the term for pertaining to both sides?

What is bilateral?

500
This is the term is used to describe the top or highest point or crown of head.
What is vertex?
500
This is the directional term for the back of the body.
What is posterior or dorsal?
500
In the thoracic cavity, the space containing the heart is known as the what.
What is the pericardial?
500
cephal/o
What is the combining form meaning head?
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