Basics
This is the thing that comes before the word that changes its meaning.
What is the prefix?
These are the levels of organization in the body from simplest to the most complex.
What is "chemical, cellular tissue, organs, organ systems, organism"?
This is the type of tissue linking one body part to another, and saved Debi from ripping her foot clean off after she tripped on the stairs here.
What is connective tissue?
These are the layers of the skin from inferior to superior.
What are the hypodermis, the dermis, and the epidermis?
Along with "urination" this is the technical term for releasing urine.
What is voiding?
This is the thing that comes after the word that changes its meaning, not just to make it sound all hoity-toity.
What is the suffix?
These are what you get in the body when a bunch of atoms come together and decide to form a gang.
What are molecules?
These are Jabba the Hutt's favorite membrane, opening to the outside world and secreting a sticky goo.
What are the mucous membranes?
This is the layer of the skin where hair follicles work, or in my case, where they don't work.
What is the dermis?
This is the smallest functional unit of a kidney.
What is a nephron?
This is the term for the base word itself.
What is the root?
These are the planes that fall apart to the left and to the right, if you split me in two with an axe to the center of my face.
What are the mid-saggital planes?
This is the type of tissue involved when I worry about this class.
What is nervous tissue?
These are the cells in the upper epithelium, and look kinda squished.
What are the simple squamous cells?
This is the specialist doctor I'm going to visit if my prostate gland gets any bigger.
What is a urologist?
This is created when a letter is placed in between the root and the suffix to get the whole thing to sound smoother.
What is the combining form?
These is the position where the body is standing up, with feet shoulder width apart, toes pointing forward, upper limbs out to the sides, and with palms up.
What is the anatomical position?
This is the membrane that surrounds the heart, and was depicted by Amelia by showing a fist punching a balloon.
What is the pericardium?
It's the root word that describes the hard tissue called keratin.
What is kerat/o?
This is the process of splitting apart parts of the blood, cleaning it, then returning it.
What is dialysis?
This is why we use medical terminology at all.
What is to make communication more precise and less misunderstood?
This is the term that describes a body part that is above another, and also how Anna views herself. (I'm kidding Anna! We kid because we love!)
What is superior?
This is the body region that sits superior to the liver, on the upper right side, where the name means "below the cartilage".
What is the hypochondriac region?
This is the nasty oily stuff that fills up whiteheads, made up of mostly dead cells, and doesn't clean up easily from the mirror after you pop said whiteheads.
What is sebum?
This is the disease that happens when poorly controlled diabetes runs amok in the kidneys, destroying tissues.
What is diabetic nephropathy?