Word Root
Directional Terms
Directional Terms
All Mixed Up
All Mixed Up
100
viscer/o
What is internal organs?
100
opposite of deep
What is superficial?
100
on the surface of the body
What is superficial?
100
back bone
What is vertebra?
100
-tomy
What is cut into, incision, section?
200
sarc/o
What is flesh?
200
opposite of proximal
What is distal?
200
lying on the back
What is supine?
200
plane that divides the body into upper and lower cavities
What is transverse?
200
above another structure
What is superior, cephalic?
300
chondr/o
What is cartilage?
300
opposite of supine
What is prone?
300
below another structure
What is inferior, caudal?
300
Plane that divides the body into right and left portions
What is sagittal?
300
near the point of attachment to the trunk or near the beginning of a structure
What is proximal?
400
thorac/o
What is chest?
400
opposite of dorsal
What is ventral, anterior?
400
pertaining to the middle
What is medial?
400
epi-
What is above?
400
away from the surface of the body
What is deep?
500
hist/o
What is tissue?
500
Pertaining to the side
What is lateral?
500
lying on the belly
What is prone?
500
-ectomy
What is removal, excision, resection?
500
far from the point of attachment to the trunk or far from the beginning of a structure
What is distal?
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