Word Roots
This word root is the term for Heart.
What is Cardi/o?
This Prefix Means Adjacent or Alongside
What is Para-?
Tough Fibrous tissue that connects muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon?
The Posterior Portion of something
What is Dorsal?
This Organ System is responsible for bodily movements, and heat production.
What is the Muscular system?
The substance that the two word roots; Hem/o and Hemat/o refer to.
What is Blood?
This Prefix means Tough
This term is talking about your Groin.
What is Inguinal?
This term means the opposite side.
What is Contralateral?
This Organ system is responsible for distributing blood cells, water. and Nutrients around the body.
What is the Cardiovascular System.
This word root means Liver
What is Hepat/o?
This Suffix means a tumor
What is -oma?
A slightly moveable joint
What is an Amphiarthrosis?
Meaning Closer to the head than another compared body part.
What is Superior?
This Organ System is responsible for making nutrients available for absorption, as well as absorbing those nutrients, in addition to water.
What is the Digestive System?
This is the word root for 'Eating'.
What is Phag/o?
This suffix means the Excision, or removal of something.
What is -ectomy?
The term that refers to smell as a special sense.
What is Olfactory/Olfaction?
Further away from the point of attachment
What is Distal?
This Organ System is responsible for responding to stimuli, both internally in the body and externally in the environment.
What is the Nervous System.
This word root is for Tissues
What is Hist/o
This suffix the term for Cell.
What is -Cyte?
An AKA term to describe your organs
What is Viscera?
This directional term is used to describe the movement of something away from midline, in contrast to it's opposite term which ADDS the body part to the rest of the body.
What is Abduction?
This Organ System is responsible for eliminating liquid waste from the body as well as regulating water balance of the blood.
What is the Urinary System.