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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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