Body Systems
Directional Terms
Prefix Vocabulary
Body Systems II
Directional Terms
100

The body system that involves the heart, veins, arteries.

What is The Cardiovascular System?

100

The term that means something is above something else.

What is Superior?

100

The prefix that is referring to the windpipe.

What is bronch-

100

The body system that involves the the stomach and other organs needed to break down food.

What is the Digestive System?

100

The prefix meaning at the top or end of something.

What is acro-?

200

The Body system that involved the exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen.

What is the Respiratory System?

200

The term that means not in the middle, to the left or the right.

What is Lateral?

200

The prefix that means you are going against something.

What is anti-?

200

The body system that is made of hard structures of calcium and other minerals/tissues.

What is the Skeletal System? 

200

The prefix that means slower than it should be.

What is brady-?

300

The body system that is involved in the formation of new life via fertilization of sperm and egg.

What is the Reproductive System?

300

The term that means the area of the chest, relative to a side profile.

What is Anterior?

300

The prefix that means feeling.

What is aesth-?

300

The body system that allows for the movement of bones.

What is the muscular system?

300

The prefix that means two.

What is bi-?

400

The body system that is responsible for maintaining the blood pressure and electrolyte balance in the body.

What is the Urinary System?

400

The term that means you are moving away from an attachment point.

What is Distal?

400

The prefix that means before or in front of.

What is ante-?

400

The body system that is responsible for triggering movement of the bones.

What is the Nervous System?

400

The prefix that means to hang something.

What is append?

500

The body system that acts as a wireless communication network between the different regions of the body.

What is the Endocrine System?

500

The term that is applied in reference to three different body structures.

What is Intermediate?

500

The prefix that means self.

What is auto-?

500

The body system that is our first line of bacterial or physical defense.

What is the Integumentary System?

500

Fibromyalgia is a word that ends in Algia, which is the suffix that means ______.

What is pain?

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