Word Building and Body Structure
This is created when a WR is combined with a vowel
What is a combining form
This is the chest cavity
What is the thoracic cavity
What is the liver
Expels urine from the body
What is the urethra
The suffix that means paralysis
What is -plegia
A word element located at the end of a word
What is a suffix
A malignant tumor of the tissue
What is a carcinoma
The combining forms that refer to the tongue
What are gloss/o and lingu/o
The physical, chemical, and microscopic evaluations of a urine specimen
What is a urinalysis
A medical procedure that records the electrical activity of the brain
What is an electroencephalography
This is the chest cavity
What is the thoracic cavity
The removal of a lobe of the lung
What is a lobectomy
A medication administered to control heartburn
What is an antacid
The combining form for uterus (womb)
What is hyster/o
A rapid loss of brain function resulting from disturbance of the normal blood supply to the brain
What is a CVA?
What is posterior
The shaft, or long, main portion of the bone
What is the diaphysis
The sac that contains the heart
What is the pericardium
The structure that carries sperm from the testes to the ejaculatory duct
What is the Vas deferens?
Promotes the secretion of cortisol in the adrenal cortex
What is the adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)?
Movement away from the body
What is abduction
Where the diffusion of O2 and CO2 occur
What are the pulmonary capillaries
When an adult's heart rate is less than 60 beats per minute
What is bradycardia
The most common cause of end-stage renal disease
What is diabetes?
Eruption of acute, inflammatory, herpetic vesicles on the trunk of the body along a peripheral nerve that is cased by herpes zoster virus
What is shingles