Word Parts
This word part is found at the beginning of a medical term and changes the meaning.
What is Prefix
The basic unit of all living things.
What is Cell
Towards the back of the body.
What is posterior
Plane dividing right and left
Lying on back, face upward.
Supine
This word part comes at the end of a medical term and is usually defined first.
What is Suffix
Groups of similar cells working together.
What is Tissue
The eyes are _____ to the mouth.
What is Superior
Plane dividing front and back.
What is Frontal (Coronal)
What does the suffix -megaly mean?
Groups of tissues working together.
The knee is _______ to the hip.
What is Distal
Plane dividing top and bottom
What is Transverse
Body cavity containing lungs and heart.
What is Thoracic
Break apart hepatomegaly
what is hepat/o = liver, megaly = enlargment
Put in order: Tissue, Cell, Organ, System
Closer to the point of attachment
Region above the umbilical region.
What is Epigastric
Body cavity containing the spinal cord.
What is vertebral
What does oste/o/arthr/o/pathy mean?
What is Disease of bone and joint
This term means the study of nerves.
The heart is ______ to the lungs.
What is Medial
Regions to the right and left of the hypogastric region.
What is Iliac
Name all 4 abdominal quadrants.
What is RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, LLQ