Anatomical Terms
Prefixes
Reproductive
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Root
100
lying face upwards
What is supine?
100
hemi-
What means half?
100
andr/o
What is male?
100
bone cells
What is osteocytes?
100
nepr/o
What is kidney?
200
lying face downwards
What is prone?
200
poly
What is many, much?
200
-gravida
What is pregnant woman
200
difficult speech
What is dysphasia?
200
cost/o
What is ribs?
300
towards the feet, or below
What is inferior?
300
retro-
What is backward, behind?
300
gynec/o
What is woman, female
300
herniation of the spinal cord
What is myelocele?
300
arteri/o
What is artery?
400
closer toward the bottom or end of a limb
What is distal?
400
dia-
What is through or across?
400
This is the rupture of the uterus
What is hysterrhexis?
400
softening of the sclera
What is scleromalacia?
400
encephala/o
What is brain?
500
toward the side of the body, or away from the midline of the body
What is Lateral?
500
quadri-
What is four?
500
-salping/o
What is tube (fallopian or Eustachian)
500
fixation of a fallopian tube
What is saplingopexy?
500
phalang/o
What is phalanes?
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