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The word part that comes at the beginning of a medical term and modifies its meaning.
What is a prefix?
The plural form of vertebra.
What is vertebrae?
The muscle separating the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
This system removes wastes from the blood and produces urine.
What is the urinary system?
The outermost layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
An abnormal reaction of the immune system to a normally harmless substance.
What is an allergy?
The word part that usually contains the basic meaning of a medical term.
What is a root?
The opposite of proximal.
What is distal?
This plane divides the body into right and left portions.
What is the sagittal plane?
This system provides support, protects organs, and works with muscles to produce movement.
What is the skeletal system?
Chemical messengers released by neurons that allow nerve cells to communicate with other cells.
What are neurotransmitters?
A condition in which the normally clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy.
What is a cataract?
In the term bradycardia, what does brady- mean?
What is slow?
The plural form of diagnosis.
What is diagnoses?
This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the frontal/coronal plane?
This system controls and coordinates body activities using electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
Name the three major layers associated with the skin from superficial to deep.
What are epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous layer/hypodermis?
A blood clot, air bubble, or other substance that travels through the bloodstream and becomes lodged in a blood vessel.
What is an embolism?
The word part found at the end of a medical term that often indicates a procedure, condition, or disease.
What is a suffix?
The opposite of anterior.
What is posterior?
A patient reports pain in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen. Name one major organ commonly associated with this quadrant.
What is the appendix?
This system produces hormones that regulate growth, metabolism, reproduction, and other body functions.
What is the endocrine system?
The deeper layer of skin containing blood vessels, nerves, glands, and hair follicles.
What is the dermis?
A medication classification that includes ibuprofen and naproxen and is commonly used to reduce pain and inflammation.
What are NSAIDs?
Break down dermatitis into its word parts and give the meaning.
What is dermat + itis — inflammation of the skin?
The singular form of Phalanges.
What is phalanx?
This plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the transverse plane?
This body system includes the skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.
What is the integumentary system?
These immune cells engulf and digest foreign material and cellular debris.
What are macrophages?
This procedure removes a cloudy lens and replaces it with an artificial lens to improve vision.
What is cataract surgery?