Combining Forms and Suffixes
Gastro/o
What is stomach?
Additive in the lavender tube?
What is EDTA?
SST is the abbreviation for:
What is Serum Separator Tube?
CNS:
What is central nervous system?
Cells join together to form:
What is tissue?
Enter/o
What is the small intestine?
Additive in the light blue tube:
What is sodium citrate?
CBC is the abbreviation for:
What is complete blood count?
PNS:
What is peripheral nervous system?
Vertical plane dividing the body into front and back:
What is the frontal or coronal plane?
Hem/o and hemat/o:
What is blood?
Additive in the yellow sterile tube:
What is sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS)?
FBS is the abbreviation for:
What is fasting blood sugar?
BUN:
What is blood urea nitrogen?
Cardiac muscle is striated and can't be controlled:
What is involuntary?
Mamm/o
What is breast?
Additive in the green tube:
What is lithium, sodium, and ammonium heparin?
PST is the abbreviation for:
What is plasma separator tube?
ABG:
What are arterial blood gases?
Attach bone to bone:
What are ligaments?
-logy:
What is study of?
Additive in the red plastic tube:
What is silicone coating (clot activator)?
WIS is the abbreviation for:
What is winged infusion set?
GTT
What is Glucose Tolerance Test?
The body facing forward and erect, arms are lateral, and the thumbs are pointing outwards:
What is anatomical?
-itis:
What is inflammation of?
The additives in the gray tube:
What is sodium fluoride and potassium oxalate?
RPR is the abbreviation for:
What is Rapid Plasma Reagin?
CSF:
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
Lobes of the brain:
What are Occipital, Parietal, Temporal, and Frontal?