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MCPHS Medical Terminology Final
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ot/o - Answer✔️✔️-combining form: ear
Anterior - Answer✔️✔️-Surface region of the body, front (or ventral), including thoracic,
abdominal, and pelvic cavities.
posterior - Answer✔️✔️-Surface region of the body, back (or dorsal), cranial and spinal
cavities.
prone - Answer✔️✔️-lying face down, anterior part of the body down
supine - Answer✔️✔️-lying face up, posterior part of the body down
posterioranterior (PA) - Answer✔️✔️-type of x-ray, beam passes through the patient back
to front
superior - Answer✔️✔️-upper half of the body, above
inferior - Answer✔️✔️-lower half of the body, below
Distal - Answer✔️✔️-away from the body
Proximal - Answer✔️✔️-towards the body
cephalad - Answer✔️✔️-toward the head
caudad - Answer✔️✔️-toward the tailbone, downward
lateral - Answer✔️✔️-side; away from the midline
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medial - Answer✔️✔️-Toward the midline of the body
coronal plane (frontal plane) - Answer✔️✔️-divides body into front and back
midsagittal plane - Answer✔️✔️-divides the body into equal right and left sides
Transvere Plane - Answer✔️✔️-divides body into top and bottom
sagittal plane - Answer✔️✔️-divides body into left and right sides, not evenly
ac - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. cardiac
al - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. intestinal
ar - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. muscular
ary - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. urinary
ic - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. pelvic
ine - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. uterine
ive - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. digestive
ous - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: pertaining to, ex. venous
ation - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: process, having, being
ion - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: action, condition
ia - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: condition, state, thing
ism - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: disease from a specific cause
itis - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: infection of, inflammation of
megaly - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: enlargement
oma - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: mass, tumor
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osis - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: abnormal condition, process, ex. psychosis
pathy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: disease
ecotmy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: surgical removal
gram - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: picture, record
graphy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: process of recording
metry - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: process of measuring
scope - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: instrument used to examine
scopy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: process of using an instrument to examine
therapy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: treatment
tomy - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: process of cutting, making an incision
iarty - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: medical treatment
ics - Answer✔️✔️-suffix: knowledge, practice, ex. dietetics
endo - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: innermost, within
epi - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: above, upon
inter - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: between
intra - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: within
peri - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: around
post - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: after, behind
pre - Answer✔️✔️-prefix; before, in front of
sub - Answer✔️✔️-prefix: below, underneath
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