What does bis mean?
What is two?
What does brevi mean?
What is short?
Magni means-
a word that uses magni in it
big or huge
magnification, magnify
latin word for half
what is semi?
What does multi mean?
What is many?
The area that is situated below the clavicle (collarbone).
What is infraclavicular?
Referring to anything that is situated, occurring, or administered inside the abdominal cavity?
What is intra abdominal?
A symptom, condition, or procedure only effecting one side of the body.
What is unilateral?
Fancy way of saying that someone is left- eye dominant.
What is sinistrocular?
Medical terms meaning, “beneath the skin”, specifically the tissue directly under the dermis.
What is subcutaneous?
Structures, actions, or locations that are outside the mouth or cheek area.
What is exocrine extra buccal?
Condition the small intestine’s inability to properly absorb nutrients like protein, fat, and vitamin.
What is malabsorption?
Structure like muscles, nerves, or arteries that are situated or extending between the ribs.
What is intercostal?
Any three muscles in each buttock that contribute to moving the thigh, the largest is called the gluteus maximus.
What is gluteus maximus?
The distance between the two acromion processes (the outer bony points of the shoulders).
What is bisacroomial?
A “small and late” pulse, showing a weak arterial pulse.
What is pulsus parvus follicle?
Side of a limb posterior to it’s central axis, specifically the little finger of the forelimb or little toe of the hind limb.
What is postaxial?
A rare anomaly where the stomach is positioned on the right side of the abdominal cavity, instead of the left.
What is dextrogastria?
A rare anomaly where the stomach is positioned on the right side of the abdominal cavity, instead of the left.
What is dextrogastria?
Three miniscule, fluid- filled bony tubes, that are located in the inner ear and necessary for balance.
What are semicircular canals?
An ascending sensory pathway in the spinal cord’s ventrolateral white matter that transmits pain, temperature and touch sensations from the periphery of the brain
What is anterolateral tract?
Foot deformity where the heel is in valgus (rotated outwards) and the ankle is in equinus (pointing down).
What is equinovalgus?
Neural pathways with only a few synapses (2-3) between the sensory input and the motor input, leading to fast and direct responses.
What is paucisynaptic?
Congenital fusion of at least two cervical vertebrae, resulting in a short, immobile neck
What is brevicollis?
A neuron passes chemical or electrical signals to another neuron or target effector, a muscle.
What is a synapse?