Anatomical & Medical Terminology
Kinesiology and Directional Terms
Skeletal System
Medical Terms
Upper Extremity
100
The source languages of medical terminology.
What are Latin and Greek?
100
Runs vertically down the body and divides the in into left and right halves.
What is the Sagittal Plane?
100
The bones in this division of the skeleton involve the limbs and their respective girdles.
What is the Appendicular Skeleton?
100
The prefix in medical terms like Anterior and Antecubital, that means before.
What is Ante-?
100
The three bones that make up the shoulder and arm.
What are the Scapula, Clavicle and Humerus?
200
One or more syllables added to the front of a word to further it's meaning.
What is a prefix?
200
Divides the body into top and bottom.
What is the Transverse Plane?
200
A rounded, knuckle like prominence, usually at a point of articulation.
What is a Condyle?
200
As is the case with Rotator Cuff muscle, Subscapularis, this prefix describes something that is located under or below.
What is Sub-?
200
The four joints of the shoulder and arm.
What are the Sternoclavicular (SC), Acromioclavicular (AC), Glenohumeral (GH) and Scapulothoracic (ST) or Scapulocostal (SC) Joints?
300
Often denotes a diagnosis, symptom or surgical procedure- or indentify a word as a noun or adjective.
What is a suffix?
300
Standing with feet shoulder-width apart, arms at the side, with the palms of the hands facing forward.
What is Anatomical Position?
300
A small bump or rise near a condyle.
What is an Epicondyle?
300
Triceratops, Tricycles, Triceps have this number in common.
What is 3?
300
This joint of the upper extremity is a true hinge joint. It only moves along Sagittal Plane performing flexion and extension.
What is the elbow (Humeroulnar) Joint?
400
Two or more stems combined to show relation or position. Typically combined by a connecting vowel.
What is a compound word?
400
Movements available along this plane are flexion and extension along the Mediolateral (X) Axis.
What is the Sagittal Plane?
400
A bony prominence or projection.
What is a Process?
400
This Posthumous record by Biggie Smalls is true to the meaning of the prefix Post-. 
What is Life After Death?
400
The thumb owes it's ability to perform opposition to this unique joint.
What is a Saddle Joint?
500
The first word of this particular type of term indicates the region or location of a structure. The second word is the noun and names the structure in question.
What is a Specific Term?
500
Movements along this plane include ADduction, ABduction, Lateral Flexion, Eversion and Inversion along the Anterioposterior (Z) Plane.
What is the Coronal/Frontal Plane?
500
A round articulating process at the end of a bone.
What is a Head?
500
If I told you that you have a muscle in your body named the Coracobrachialis:
1. What region of the body would you say this muscle is located? (Correct regional terminology)
2. What two attachment points in/around this region do you think the Coracobrachialis has? (Name the landmarks)
What is the Brachial Region?
What are the Coracoid Process of the Scapula and the Bracial Region/Arm/Humerus?
500
One of two popular ball and socket joints in the body, this joint sacrifices stability for mobility.
What is the Glenohumeral Joint?