Anatomic Terminology
Medical Prefixes and Suffixes
Body Planes and Sections
Medical Terms
Its Epidemic
100
The word that means front or in front of
What is anterior or ventral?
100
cardio
What is the heart?
100
Cut made through the body in the direction of a certain plane
What is a section?
100
leukocyte
What is a white blood cell?
100
the study of distribution and determinants of disease due to biological or chemical attack.
What is epidemiology?
200
back or in back of
What is posterior or dorsal?
200
cide
What is causing death or death?
200
Divides body into anterior and posterior portions
What is the coronal or frontal plane?
200
tachycardia
What is fast heart beat?
200
The individual infected with the disease
What is the host?
300
toward the point of attachment
What is proximal?
300
brady
What is slow?
300
Divides the body into upper and lower parts
What is the transverse plane?
300
cyanosis
What is blue disease?
300
the cause of the disease or the individual initially transmitting the disease
What is agent?
400
away from point of attachment
What is distal?
400
tachy
What is fast?
400
The sagittal plane divides the body into these two parts
What are left and right?
400
pericarditis
What is inflammation around the heart?
400
the conditions that facilitate the spread of the disease
What is the environment?
500
near the surface
What is superficial?
500
phleb
What is vein?
500
Using the various planes, the body can be divided into this many parts...
What are six?
500
erythrocytopenia
What is red blood cell deficiency?
500
In order to stop this, someone must "speak up" about the issue
What is a silent epidemic?
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