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Attached to the end of a word part to modify its meaning.
What is a suffix? or
What are suffixes?
Are used to describe where one body part is in relation to another.
What are Directional Terms?
Provides a supportive "frame" for the body.
What is the Skeletal System?
What is the Pancreas?
Is a hollow muscular organ that provides the power to move blood through the body.
What is the Heart?
Common root word meaning, liver.
What is Hepato?
Are imaginary lines that divide the body into sections.
What are Planes of Reference?
Are organs that contract to produce movement.
What are muscles?
Usually four glands located on the surface of the thyroid gland.
What are the Parathyroid Glands?
What the superior chambers of the heart are known as.
What are the Atria? or
What is the Atrium?
A vowel, usually an "o", that is added to the end of a root word to make the word easier to pronounce.
What is a Combining Vowel?
Toward the tip of the nose (refers to locations on the head only).
What is Rostral?
Is the process by which bone is formed.
What is Ossification?
One drug is given to see if it suppresses the activity of the gland.
What is a Suppression Test?
Are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart.
What are Veins?
Prefix in intravenous, meaning "within; into"
What is Intra-?
Is a hole or hollow space that contains and protects internal organs.
What is a Body Cavity?
A term used to describe the types of muscle movements.
What is ROM (Range of Motion)?
Composed of ductless glands that secrete chemical messengers called hormones into the bloodstream.
What is Endocrine System?
A medical instrument for listening to the action of someones heart or breathing.
What is a Stethoscope
When words are usually built in the order in which the organs occur or blood flows through the body.
What is Anatomic Order?
Means formation, development and increase in the size of tissue and cells.
What is Trophy?
The three types are Fibrous, Cartilaginous, and Synovial.
What are the types of Joints?
Located at the base of the brain just below the hypothalamus.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
A condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm.
What is Arrhythmia?