Body Directions and Positions
General Terms and Abrev
Body Systems
Suffixes
Prefixes
100
Moving Away from the body
Abduction
100
DX
Diagnosis
100
Colo
Colon
100
rrhage, rrhagia
excessive flow
100
more than ideal 
hyper
200
Toward the Front
Anterior
200
NPO
Nothing by Mouth 
200
cephal
Having to do with the head 
200
plegia
Paralysis
200
less than ideal 
hypo
300
Further from the center or point of orgin
Distal
300
QOD
every day other day 
300
Hepat
Liver
300
enlargement
megaly
300
night
noc
400
nearest to the center or point of orgin
proximal
400
QID
4 times a day 
400
Neur
Nerve
400
ostomy
creating an opening
400
Slow
Brady
500
Head of bed lowered and feet raised 
Trandelenberg
500
SOB
Shortness of Breath 
500
Nephr
Kidney
500
Breathing
pnea
500
anti/a/an 
without 
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