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Cardiovascular
Musculoskeletal
Integumentary
Word Parts
Body Directions
100
This is the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
100
These structures connect bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
100
Sweat glands found in the pubic and underarm areas that produces thicker sweat that can produce an odor
What is apocrine sweat glands?
100
Every medical term must have this word part.
What is a suffix?
100
A term for the back of the body
What is posterior?
200
This artery carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
This type of muscle is voluntary.
What is skeletal muscle?
200
Where skin pigment is produced.
What is melanocytes?
200
This word part gives information about location, time, or number.
What is a prefix?
200
Name of the region where the lungs are.
What is the thoracic area?
300
What is a weakened and enlarged artery?
What is an aneurysm?
300
Damage to ligaments surrounding a joint due to overstretching, no dislocation or fracture present.
What is a sprain?
300
Skin cancer that begins in melanocytes and quickly metastasizes.
What is malignant melanoma?
300
This word part adds meaning to a term such as condition, disease, or procedure.
What is a suffix?
300
Term that means towards the surface of the body.
What is superficial?
400
The upper chambers of the heart are called these.
What is atria?
400
This is a surgery to correct alignment and apply hardware directly to the bone.
What is ORIF (Open reduction internal fixation)?
400
This term means profuse sweating.
What is diaphoresis?
400
joint inflammation
What is arthritis?
400
Term that means away from the surface of the body.
What is deep?
500
This is a blood clot in a vessel that is still in place.
What is a thrombus?
500
This joint condition is an autoimmune disease that attacks the joint capsule of small joints all over the body and can happen at any age.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
500
Burn degree characterized by redness of the skin, blisters, and damage to epidermis and part of the dermis.
What is 2nd degree?
500
Pertaining to below the skin
What is hypodermic?
500
The position a patient is lying in if the he is lying on his back facing the ceiling.
What is supine?