Medical Terminology Simplified: Chapter 2 Questions and Answers scored A

Medical Terminology Simplified: Chapter 2 Questions and Answers scored A Chrondr/o - ANS- Cartilage Cyt/o - ANS- Cell Hist/o - ANS- Tissue Nucle/o - ANS- Nucleus Anter/o - ANS- Anterior, front Caud/o - ANS- Tail Dist/o - ANS- Far, farthest Dors/o - ANS- Back (of body) Infer/o - ANS- Lower, below Later/o - ANS- Side, to one side Medi/o - ANS- Middle Poster/o - ANS- Back, behind, posterior Proxim/o - ANS- Near, nearest Super/o - ANS- Upper, above Ventr/o - ANS- Belly, belly side -ad - ANS- Toward -logist - ANS- Specialist in the study of -logy - ANS- Study of -lysis - ANS- Separation, destruction -toxic - ANS- Poison Abdomin/o - ANS- Abdomen Cephal/o - ANS- Head Cervic/o - ANS- Neck, cervix uteri Gastr/o - ANS- Stomach Ili/o - ANS- Ilium Inguin/o - ANS- Groin Lumb/o - ANS- Loins ( lower back) Pelv/i, pelv/o - ANS- Pelvis Spin/o - ANS- Spine Thorac/o - ANS- Chest Umbilic/o - ANS- Umbilicus/ navel Abd - ANS- Abdomen Ant - ANS- Anterior Ap - ANS- Anteroposterior Bx, bx - ANS- Biopsy LAT, lay - ANS- Lateral LLQ - ANS- Lower left quadrant LUQ - ANS- Left upper quadrant PA - ANS- Posteroranterior, pernicious anemia, pulmonary artery, physician assistant RLQ - ANS- Right lower quadrant RUQ - ANS- Right upper quadrant U&L, U/L - ANS- Upper and lower CT - ANS- Computed tomography CXR - ANS- Chest x-ray,cheat radiography MRI - ANS- Magnetic resonance imaging PET - ANS- Positron emission tomography