Abdominal Quadrants
Anatomical Terms of Direction
Parts of the Cell
Root Words
Medical Prefixes
100

The left kidney is located in which quadrant?

What is the Left Upper Quadrant (LUQ)?

100

This is the opposite of inferior.

What is superior?

100
This is the outer boundary of the cell in all animals.

What is the Cell Membrane?

100

Cardi B has a root word in her name that means what?

What is heart?

100

Which is larger? Something that is microscopic or macroscopic?

What is macroscopic?

200
In what quadrant is the right ureter located in?

What is the Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ)?

200

Posterior means toward the back of the body. This is it's antonym.

What is anterior?

200

What is the medical term for the study of cells?

What is Cytology?

200

If you and your friends go out to a "gastropub" what will you be doing?

What is eating?
200

If you have hypertension is your blood pressure higher or lower than normal?

What is higher?

300

In what quadrant is the appendix located in?

What is the Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ)?

300

Although a great adjective to describe Regina George, this word actually means "toward the surface of the body."

What is superficial?

300

This part of the cell contains DNA.

What is the cell nucleus?

300

What is the medical term (root word AND suffix) for a nose job?

What is rhinoplasty?

300

If you have hypoglycemia is your blood glucose too high or too low?

What is too low?
400

This organ goes through all 4 quadrants of the abdomen.

What is the small intestine?

400

Name a location on the body that could be defined as "Lateral" from the body's midline.

What is your side or shoulder?

400

This word means "tiny organs" and refers to all the individual structures in a cell that keep it alive and healthy.

What are organelles?

400

When Rocky and Apollo Creed face off in the ring they both land a series of punches that cause bruising, or what medical term referring to the pooling of blood outside of a blood vessel?

What is a hematoma?

400

Which prefix is the opposite of Poly (many/much)?

What is Olig (scanty/few)?

500

The line used to dissect the abdominal quadrants vertically is called the Medial line. What is the horizontal line called?

What is the transverse line?

500
The wrist is ________ to the shoulder, while the elbow is _____________ to the shoulder. (Use distal and proximal correctly in this sentence).

The wrist is distal to the shoulder, while the elbow is proximal to the shoulder.

500

This word that comes from the Greek word for "body" describes every cell in the body EXCEPT reproductive cells.

What is Somatic?

500

In the Victorian era women could be diagnosed with "Hysteria" - what organ of the body did doctors believed caused their ailments based on the root word?

What is the uterus? 

500

At the end of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," Dr. Seuss said the Grinch's heart "Grew three sizes that day." What is the medical term for having too large a heart?

What is Megacardia?

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