What the what?
The foundation of a term.
What is the root?
Attaches to the beginning of a term.
What is a prefix?
Attaches to the end of a term.
What is a suffix?
The abbreviation meaning "nil per os".
What is NPO?
The plane that divides top & bottom
What is the dorsal plane?
The type of roots for the terms cardiovascular & musculoskeletal.
What is a compound root?
The most common way to form a term.
The purpose of suffixes.
What is changing the meaning, or giving grammatical function to, a root?
The abbreviations for the eyes & ears.
What is OS, OD, OU, AS, AD, & AU?
The plane that divides front & back; also used to divide appendages.
What is the transverse plane?
How a combining form is made.
What is a root/compound root + combining vowel?
The way to analyze, or deconstruct, a term you don't recognize.
What is starting with the suffix, & working backwards to the combining form & prefix?
A form of a medical term that's quite common & is usually used as a broad, general description.
What is a combining form + suffix?
The 3 descriptions & abbreviations of a patient's demeanor.
What is BAR (bright, alert, responsive), QAR (quiet, alert, responsive), & ADR (ain't doing right)?
A plane that divides unequal right & left sides.
What is a parasagittal plane?
The 2 most common combining vowels.
What is o & i?
The 2 main uses for prefixes.
What is for contrasting, & as a directional term?
The 5 categories of suffixes.
What is "pertaining to", surgical, procedural, double "r", & disease/conditional?
The 3 "x" abbreviations that only DVMs can do.
What is dx, diagnosis, rx, prescriptions, & sx, surgery?
The plane that divides equal left & right sides.
What is the midsaggital/median plane?
A medical term that does not have a root.
What is a prefix + suffix, usually with a root form?
The things prefixes indicate.
What is position in time & space, amount, relative status, & colour?
The combining vowels, & the rules for their use with suffixes.
What is used when the suffix begins with a consonant, omitted when the suffix begins with a vowel, & omitted when the suffix begins with the same vowel as the combining form ends?
The abbreviations related to administration routes, usually medications?
What is inj, injection, IV, intravenous, IM, intramuscular, SQ, subcutaneous, PO, by mouth, IN, intranasal, & TD, transdermal?
The medical terms for the front & back.
What is anterior & posterior?