Common Med Terms
Directional Terms
Prefixes
Root
Suffixes
100

Auscultation

What is the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, and other organs, typically with a stethoscope?

100

Medial

What is towards the midline?

100

Hypo-

What is low?

100

Cysto-

What is the urinary bladder?

100

-centesis

What is puncturing into?

200

Purulent

What is pus?

200

Distal

What is away from center or beginning?

200
Sub-

What is below?

200

Hyster-

What is the uterus?

200

-lysis

What is to breakdown?

300

Epistaxis

What is nosebleed?

300

Superficial

What is towards the surface?

300

Ab-

What is away from?
300

Enter-

What is intestine?

300

-rrhage

What is to burst?

400

Flexion

What is decreasing the angle between two bones at a joint?

400

Dorsal

What is towards the spine?

400

Exo-

What is outside of? 



400
Orchi-

What is testicles?

400

-scope

What is the act of using an instrument for viewing?

500

Proprioception

What is knowing where you limbs are in space?

500

Anterior

What is towards the cranium?
500

Intra-

What is within?

500

Stomato-

What is the mouth?

500

-pexy

What is to suture to?