Medical Terminology
What does the suffix -itis mean?
Inflammation
This region includes your thigh, knee, shin, and ankle, and it helps you run, jump, and walk.
Lower limbs/leg
Finger
Phalange
What device do you use to listen to the heart and lungs?
Stethoscope
What system transmits blood throughout your body?
Circulatory
What does the prefix Brady mean?
Slow
This body region includes your chest, abdomen, and back, and it protects important organs like your heart and lungs.
Torso
Collarbone
Clavicle
What device is used to make incisions during surgery?
Scalpel
What system breaks down food into usable nutrients and gets rid of solid waste.
Digestive system
What information does a prefix tell you?
Position, Location, Status, How, Where, When, etc.
The liver is primarily located in this abdominal quadrant
Right upper quadrant
Tailbone
Coccyx
What is the device that measures blood pressure?
Sphygmomanometer
What system includes hair, skin, and nails?
Integumentary
What does ubiquitous mean?
Seeming to be found, seen, or existing everywhere at the same time.
This region of the back is located between the ribs and the hips
Lumbar region
Kneecap
Patella
What device records the heart's rhythm and sends an electrical shock throughout the heart and increments?
Automated External Defibrilator (AED)
What system drains extra fluid from tissues and helps support immune defenses.
Lymphatic
What does Hysterosalpingo-oophorectomy mean?
The surgical removal of the female reproductive system.
What abdominal region is superior to the umbilical region?
Epigastric
Chest bone
Sternum
Forceps
What system regulates hormones?
Endocrine