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Abdomen
Suffixes
Roots
100
Away from the midline

What is lateral?

100

Region in the middle around the "belly button"

What is umbilical?

100

Meaning of the suffix in cytology

What is "the study of"?

100

Cytology

What is cyt/o

200

Toward the head

What is cephalic (or coronal)?

200

Above the umbilical region

What is epigastric?

200

The suffix in the word myopathy

What is -pathy?

200

Myology

What is my/o?

300
Away from the body i.e. on an arm or leg

What is distal?

300

Number of quadrants

What is four?

300

Definition of suffix -al

What is "pertaining to"?

300
Optometry

Opto

400

Toward the back

What is posterior?
400

There are two of these below the lumbar regions

What is inguinal region?

400

Suffix meaning specialist

What is -logist?
400

Skeletal

What is Skelet?

500

The opposite of superior

What is inferior?

500
These are on either side of the epigastric region

What are the hypochondriac regions?

500

The suffix in the word splenomegaly

What is -megaly?

500

Gastritis

What is gastr-?

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