Medical Terminology Ch.2 Body Sturcture
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Chondr/o | Cartilage |
| cyt/o | cell |
| hist/o | tissue |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| anter/o | anterior |
| caud/o | tail |
| dist/o | far, farthest |
| dors/o | back (of body) |
| infer/o | lower, below |
| later/o | side, to one side |
| medi/o | middle |
| poster/o | back (of body), behind, posterior |
| proxim/o | near, nearest |
| super/o | upper, above |
| ventr/o | belly, belly side |
| ad | toward |
| logist | specialist in the study of |
| logy | study of |
| lysis | seperation; destruction;loosening |
| toxic | poison |
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| cephal/o | head |
| cervic/o | neck;cervix uteri (neck of uterus) |
| crani/o | cranium (skull) |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| ili/o | ilium (lateral, flaring portion of hip bone) |
| inguin/o | groin |
| lumb/o | loins (lower back) |
| pelv/i - pelv/o | pelvis |
| spin/o | spine |
| thorac/o | chest |
| umbilic/o | umbilicus, navel |
| ac, al, ar, ary, ous, iac, ic, ior, | pertaining to |
| hypo | under, below, deficient |
| epi | above, on |
| abd | abdomen |
| ant | anterior |
| AP | anteroposterior |
| Bx, bx | biopsy |
| LAT;lat | lateral |
| LLQ | left lower quadrant |
| CXR | chest x-ray, chest radiograph |
| MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
| LUQ | left upper quadrant |
| PA | posteroanterior; pernicious anemia; pulmonary artery; physician assistant |
| RLQ | right lower quadrant |
| RUQ | right upper quadrant |
| U&L, U/L | upper and lower |
| PET | positron emission tomography |
| US | ultrasound; ultrasonography |
| SPECT | single photon emission computed tomography |
| verse | turning |
| trans | through, across |
| CT | Computed Tomography |
| hypochondriac | beneath the ribs |
| hypogastric | below the stomach |
| umbilical | near the navel |
| epigastric | stomach |
| adhesion | Band of scar tissue binding anatomical surfaces that are normally separate from each other |
| inflammation | Protective response of body tissues to irritation, infection, or allergy |
| sepsis | Body's inflammatory response to infection, in which there is fever, elevated heart and respiratory rate, and low blood pressure |
| endoscopy | visual examination of the interior of organs and cavities with a specialized lighted instrument |
| fluoroscopy | Radiographic procedure that uses a fluorescent screen instead of a photographic plate to produce a visual image from x-rays that pass through the patient, resulting in continuous imaging of the motion of internal structures and immediate serial images |
| nuclear scan | with the use of radiopharmaceutical to produce an image of an organ |
| radiography | Production of captured shadow images on photographic film through the action of ioning radiation passing through the body from an external source |
| radiopharmaceutical | Drug that contains a radioactive substance which travels to an area or a specific organ that will be scanned |
| scan | Technique for carefully studing an area, organ, or system of the body by recording and displaying an image of the area |
| anastomosis | Connection between two vessels; surgical joining of two ducts, blood vessels, or bowel segments to allow flow from one to the other |
| cauterize | Process of burning abnormal tissue with electricity, freezing, heat, or chemicals ( silver nitrate) |
| body plane | imaginary flat surface that divides the body into two sections |
| median plane | (midsagittal) plane |
| frontal plane | (coronal) plane |
| horizontal plane | (transverse) plane |
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