Body Basics
Prefixes
Combining forms
Suffixes
Pot Pouri
100

Divides the body into front and back sections

What is the frontal plane?

100

Ad-

What is "toward'?

100

my/o

What is 'muscle'?

100

-megaly

What is 'enlargement'?

100

The study of structures

What is anatomy?

200

Divides the body into upper and lower sections

What is the transverse plane?

200

dorsi-

What is 'back'?

200

enter/o

What is 'intestines'?

200

-cele

What is 'hernia, 'swelling', 'protrusion'?

200

The study of body function

What is physiology>

300

Divides the body into left and right sections

What is the sagittal plane?

300

dys-

What is 'painful' or 'difficult"?

300

tax/o

What is 'coordination'?

300

-paresis

What is 'weakness'?

300

The study of disease

What is pathophysiology?

400

Divides the body into equal right and left sections

What is the midsagittal plane?

400

trans-

What is "accross'?

400

flex/o

What is 'bend'?

400

-emesis

What is 'vomiting'?

400
The process of chewing

What is mastication?

500

Standing upright with the head & Feet facing forward, the arms at the sideswith the palms of the hand facing forward

What is the anatomical position?

500

post-

What is 'after', 'behind'?

500

cholecyst/o

What is 'gallbladder'?

500

-rrhexis

What is 'rupture'?

500

A band or sheet o fibrous f tissue that encloses a muscle or group of muscles

What is fascia?