Organs and Organ Systems
This system includes the skin and its associated structures.
What is the Integumentary System?
This term refers to the chest.
What is thoracic?
This root word means form.
What is morph/o?
This root word means water, fluid.
What is hydr/o?
This term means above, in a higher position.
What is superior?
This system consists of the blood, heart and blood vessels.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This term refers to the base of the skull.
What is Occipital?
This root word means gland.
What is aden/o?
This root word means protein.
What is prote/o?
This term means towards the midline of the body.
What is medial?
This system moves the skeleton and makes up the walls of internal organs.
What is the muscular system?
This term refers to the foot.
What is Pedal?
This root word means nucleus.
What is kary/o?
This root word means sugar.
What is sacchar/o?
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What is glyc/o?
This term means toward the back (dorsum) of the body.
What is posterior (dorsal).
This system consists of individual glands that produce hormones.
What is the Endocrine System?
This term refers to the back of the knee.
What is popliteal?
This root word means body.
What is somat/o?
This root word means starch.
What is amyl/o?
This term means closer to the center of the body.
Hint: not closer to the midline.
What is deep (internal)?
This system consists of organs and vessels that aid circulation and help protect the body from foreign materials.
What is the Lymphatic System?
This term refers to the lateral shoulder.
What is Deltoid?
This root word means cell.
What is cyt/o?
This root word means fatty.
What is steatorrhea?
Note: adip/o and lip/o mean fat.
This term means toward the lower end of the spine, in an inferior direction (human reference).
What is caudal?