Prefix Perfect
The prefix for excessive or increased
What is hyper-?
The word root + CF for skin
What is dermat/o?
The suffix for surgical repair
What is -plasty?
The __ plane is also known as the horizontal plane
What is transverse?
The pericardial cavity surrounds which organ
What is the heart?
What is inferior?
DAILY DOUBLE (200pts): The meaning of hemorrhage
What is a large amount of blood loss?
The prefix meaning right side
What is dextro-?
The word root + CF for artery
What is arteri/o ?
The meaning of the suffix -megaly
What is enlargement?
The frontal plane is also known as the __ plane
What is coronal?
This cavity is also known as the chest cavity
What is the thoracic cavity?
Daily Double (400pts): The ears are ___ to the nose
What is lateral?
The term for swelling or fluid retention
What is edema?
DAILY DOUBLE (600pts): The prefix meaning left side
What is sinistro-?
The meaning of the word root cyan/o
What is blue?
The meaning of the suffix -algia
What is pain?
What is transverse?
Daily Double (600pts): This major cavity houses and brain and spinal cord
What is the dorsal cavity?
The wrist is ___ to the elbow
What is distal?
The ongoing presence of a disease within a population
What is endemic?
The meaning of the prefix ab-
What is away from or negative?
DAILY DOUBLE (800pts): The meaning of the word root leuk/o
What is white?
The meaning of the suffix -rrhea
What is excessive flow or discharge?
Daily Double (800pts): This slanted plane means dividing the body at an angle
What is oblique?
This cavity is part of the ventral cavity and houses digestive, urinary, and reproductive organs
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
The knee is ____ to the ankle
What is proximal?
An invasion by a pathogenic organism is known as this
What is an infection?
The word root + CF for bad, difficult, painful
What is dys-?
The word root + CF for birth
What is nat/o?
DAILY DOUBLE (1000pts): The suffix for abnormal hardening
What is -sclerosis?
This plane divides the body into equal left and right halves. Spell it correctly
What is midsagittal?
These cavities surrounds each lung
What is a pleural cavity?
The sternum is closer to the surface or ___ to the heart
What is superficial?
A contagious disease is also knowns as a __ disease
What is communicable?