Position Descriptions
Finding Your Way
Prefixes
Suffixes
Down With The Sickness
Rootin' Tootin'
100
A patient laying on their back is in this position.
What is Supine?
100
This term refers to "both sides."
What is bilateral?
100
This prefix means "within or inside"
What is intra?
100
This suffix means "inflamation."
What is itis?
100
Bronchitis means this.
What is inflammation of the bronchioles?
100
This root means "lungs".
What is broncho or pulmo?
200
This position:
What is the Lateral Recumbent or "Recovery" Position?
200
This term refers to "one side."
What is unilateral?
200
This prefix means "between."
What is inter?
200
This suffix means "pain."
What is "-algia"?
200
Dyspnea means this.
What is "difficulty breathing"?
200
This root means "heart."
What is cardio?
300
These two terms, describing the relative position of body parts in relation to one another along the length of a limb.
What is Proximal and Distal?
300
The term for an imaginary line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit down to the ankle.
What is the midaxillary line?
300
This prefix means "slow or below normal."
What is brady?
300
This suffix means "paralysis."
What is "-plegia"?
300
Bradypnea means this.
A breathing rate that's slower than normal.
300
This root means "liver."
What is hepa.
400
A patient laying supine on this cot would be in this position.
What is the Semi-Fowler's Position?
400
This term means "beneath".
What is inferior?
400
This prefix means "fast or above normal"
What is tachy?
400
This suffix means "breathing."
What is "pnea"?
400
This suffix means "creation of an opening."
What is "ostomy."
400
This root means "stomach or intestines"
What is gastro?
500
A patient laying supine with their legs elevated as such is in this position.
What is the Trendelenburg Position/?
500
Name the four abdominal quadrants.
What are:
Right Upper Quadrant (RUQ)
Left Upper Quadrant (LUQ)
Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ)
Left Lower Quadrant (LLQ)
500
This prefix means "above or "in excess of"
What is supra?
500
This suffice means "discharge."
What is "rrhea"?
500
This term refers to the absence of breathing.
What is "apnea"?
500
This root means "relating to nerves or the brain."
What is neuro?