Word Parts
What is a word root?
The foundation of a word.
What is "Sig"?
An abbreviation written on perscriptions which means to take one.
What are the body parts that belong to the Integumentary System?
Skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.
What is the sagittal plane?
The vertical plane which runs lengthwise from front to back and divides the body into right and left portions.
Hair folicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, blood vessels, lymph vessels, sensory receptors, nerve muscles and fibers
What is the beginning part of a word?
The prefix.
What is "Po"?
An abbreviation written on perscriptions which means by mouth.
What are the body parts that belong to the Musculskeletal System?
Bones, joints, and muscles.
What is the median plane?
When the sagittal plane passes through the middle of the body, and divides the right and left halves of the body equally.
What are the features of the subcutaneous layer?
This layer protects deeper tissures of the body from trauma, insulation, from heat and cold, also serves as a source of energy in a starvation situation.
What is the ending of a word?
The suffix.
What is "Tid"?
An abbreviation writted on perscriptions which means three times a day.
What are the body parts that belong to the Cardiovascular System?
Heart, arteries, and veins.
What is the frontal plane?
Divides the body into front and back portions.
What are the features of the accessory organs?
The anatomical structures located within the dermis including hair, nails and sebaceous sweat glands.
What is a conbining vowel?
A vowel that links the word root to another word root or suffix.
What is "Disp"?
An abbreviation written on perscriptions which means dispense.
What are the body parts that belong to the Hematic System?
Plasma, erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets.
What is the Traverse plane?
A plane that runs parallel to the ground. This cut divides the body into upper and lower portions.
What is the order of the layers of the skin?
Epidermis-->deeper dermis-->hypodermis
What is combining form?
The word root and its combining vowel writted in a word root or vowel form.
What are the languages used for the abbreviations on perscriptions?
Latin and Greek.
What are the body parts that belong to the Digestive System?
Oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and salivary glands.
The two terms are cross-section and longitudinal section. A cross-section is a slice perpendicular to the long axis of a structure. A longitudinal section is a slice along the axis of a structure.
What are five names of neoplasms that affect the skin?
Ulcer, urticaria, vesicle, wheal, and xeroderma.