| A | B |
|---|
| LLQ | LOWER LEFT QUADRANT, LEFT LOWER QUADRANT |
| LUMBAR | VERTEBRA OF THE LOIN REGION, THE MIDDLE RIGHT AND LEFT REGIONS |
| HYPOGASTRIC | THE LOWER MIDDLE REGION IN THE ANATOMICAL DIVISION |
| CEREBRAL | PERTAIAINING TO THE BRAIN |
| POSTMORTEN | OCCURRING OR PERFORM AFTER DEATH |
| LUQ (LEFT UPPER QUADRANT IN THE ABDOMINAL REGION) | CONTAINS: THE STOMACH, THE SPLEEN, AND PART OF THE INTESTINES |
| RIGHT INGUINAL REGION | ON THE LOWER RIGHT SIDE NEAR THE GROIN |
| WHEN A VOWEL IS ADDED TO THE ROOT | IT BECOMES A COMBINING FORM |
| HAVE A PREFIX | NOT ALL MEDICAL TERMS |
| ALL MEDICAL TERMS HAS | AT LEAST ONE WORD ROOT |
| A SUFFIX IS ATTACHED TO THE END OF A WORD ROOT | TO MODIFY ITS MEANING |
| MELENA | BLACK, TARRY STOOLS, FECES CONTAINING DIGESTED FOOD |
| STEATORRHEA | FAT IN THE FECES DUE TO IMPROPER DIGESTION OR ABSORPTION OF FAT |
| HEMATOCHEZIA | PASSAGE OF BRIGHT, FRESH, RED BLOOD, FROM THE RECTUM |
| ANOREXIA | LOSS OF APETITE |
| VOIDING | EXPELLING URINE |
| ENURESIS | WETTING THE BED DURING SLEEPING HOURS |
| INCONTINENCE | UNABLE TO CONTROL SPELLING URINE |
| FLATUS | GAS EXPELLED THROUGH THE ANUS |
| OPPOSITE TERM FOR ANTERIOR | POSTERIOR THE OPPOSITE TERM |
| DEEP, OPPOSITE TERM | SUPERFICIAL, OPPOSITE TERM |
| KARYOTYPE | A PICTURE OF THE CHROMOSOMES IN THE NUCLEUS |
| ABDOMINAL | PERTAINING TO THE ABDOMEN |
| VISCERA | INTERNAL ORGANS |
| DISTAL | THE POINT FARTHEST FROM ATTACHMENT TO THE TRUNK |
| DIRECTIONAL TERM FOR BACK | DORSAL |
| LATERAL | A STRUCTURE TO BE OF THE SIDE OF SOMETHING |
| SAGITTAL | VERTICAL PLANE DIVIDING THE BODY INTO RIGHT AND LEFT SIDES |
| PRONE | IF THE CLIENT IS LYING ON THEIR BELLY |
| SUPERIOR | ABOVE ANOTHER STRUCTURE |
| COCCYX | TAILBONE |
| THE LUNGS, HEART, AND AORTA ARE LOCATED IN | THE THORACIC CAVITY |
| CARDI/O | THE COMBINING FORM FOR HEART |
| ENTEROPATHY | DISEASE PROCESS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE |
| OPHTHALMOSCOPE | AN INSTRUMENT USED TO VISUALLY EXAMINE THE EYE |
| LEUKEMIA | INCREASE IN NUMBERS OF MALIGNANT WHITE BLOOD CELLS |
| DIAGNOSIS | MADE ON THE BASIS OF COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE PATIENT'S CONDITION |
| IATROGENIC | PRODUCED BY THE TREATMENT |
| HEPATOMA | TUMOR OF THE LIVER |
| CYSTOSCOPY | THE PROCESS OF VISUALLY EXAMININING THE URINARY BLADDER |
| GASTROTOMY | INCISION OF THE STOMACH |
| PARATHYROID GLANDS | THE GLANDS LOCATED BESIDE THE THYROID |
| ILIAC REGION | THE INGUINAL REGION |
| HYPERPLESIA | EXCESS CELL DUE TO AN INCREASED RATE OF CELL DIVISION |
| OTOSCLEROSIS | HARDENING OF THE BONY TISSUE OF THE LABYRINTH |
| BULLAE | LARGE VESICLES |
| PRONATION | TURNING THE PALM OF THE HAND BACKWARD (DOWN) |
| OSTEOARTHRITIS | DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE |
| SPLENECTOMY | REMOVAL OF THE SPLEEN |
| SYMPTOMS: PAROXYSMAL DISPNEA, WHEEZING, COUGHUNG | DYSPNEA |
| DYSPNEA | SHORTNESS OF BREATH |
| PETECHIAE | SMALL, PINPOINTS HEMORRHAGE |
| ENDARTERECTOMY | REMOVAL OF PLAQUES OF FATTY DEPOSITS FROM THE INNERMOST LINING OF AN ARTERY |
| ADENOMA | TUMOR OF THE GLAND |
| THE WORD ROOT | IS THE FOUNDATION OR MAIN BODY OF A WORD |
| PATHOLOGY | STUDY OF DISEASE |
| THE COMBINING VOWEL IS USED WHEN? | CONNECTING TWO ROOTS EVEN IF VOWELS ARE PRESENT AT THE JUNCTIONS OF THE TWO ROOTS |
| THE COMBINING FORM | DOES NOT CONNECT THE ROOT TO THE SUFFIX OR TO ANOTHER ROOT |
| BIOPSY | REMOVING LIVING TISSUE FROM THE BODY AND VIEWING IT (UNDER A MICROSCOPE) |
| ONCOLOGY | IS THE STUDY AND TREATMENT OF CANCER4 |
| PATHOGENIC ORGANISM | A VIRUS OR BACTERIUM IS AN ORGANISM THAT CAN PRODUCE DISEASE |
| VASECTOMY | IS THE EXCISION OF THE VAS DEFERENS |
| PID | INFLAMMATION OF THE PELVIC REGION |
| PLACENTA | MEDICAL TERM FOR AFTER BIRHT |
| MASTECTOMY | REMOVAL OF THE BREAST |
| ESOPHAGITIS | AN INFLAMED ESOPHAGUS |
| MYELOPOIESIS | FORMATION OR PRODUCTION OF BONE MARROW |
| THEH PLURAL OF BACTERIUM | BACTERIA |
| THORACOCENTESIS | SURGICAL PUNCTURE TO REMOVE FLUID FROM THE CHEST |
| -PATHY | SUFFIX MEANS DISEASE CONDITION |
| ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY | PROCEDURE THAT RECORDS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN |
| AN AURA | THE SENSORY WARNING SOME INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO A SEIZURE |
| CEREBRUM | THE LARGEST AND UPPERMOST SECTION OF THE BRAIN |
| SUPERIOR | DIRECTIONAL TERM FOR "ABOVE ANOTHER STRUCTURE" |
| TURP | TRANSURETHRAL INCISION OF THE PROSTATE |
| OSTEOPOROSIS | Decrease in bones density,weakening and thinning of bone. Increase porosity in bone |
| OSTE/O | COMBINING FORM MEANS BONE |
| -BLAST | SUFFIX, MEANS EMBYONIC, IMMATURE CELL |
| -PHYSIS | SUFFIX MEANS TO GROW |
| -MALACIA | SOFTENING |
| ARTHROTOMY | CUTTING INTO A JOINT |
| CLAVICUL/O | CLAVICAL, COLLAR BONE |
| KNEECAP | MT. PATELLA |
| HUMER/O | HUMERUS, UPPER ARM BONE |
| TIBIA | SHIN BONE |
| PHALANG/O | PHALANGES, TOE BONES |
| CALCANE/O | CALCANEUS, HEEL BONE |
| EXOSTOSIS | IS A BONY OUTGROWTH ARISING FROM THE SURFACE OF BONE |
| ANKYLOSIS | STIFFENING OF A JOINT BY FUSION OF BONESACCROSS A JOINT SPACE |
| CHONDROCOSTAL | PERTAINING TO THE CARTILAGE AND RIBS |
| OSTEITIS | INFLAMMATION OF A BONE |
| CARPAL TUNNEL | COMPRESSION OF THE MEDIAL NERVE, PAIN AND TINGLING SENSATION |
| FEMORAL | PERTAINING TO THE FEMUR |
| ADDUCTION | MOVEMENT TOWARD THE MIDLINE OF THE BODY |
| ISCHIUM | POSTERIOR PART OF THE PELVIC BONE |
| HYPERCALCEMIA | HIGH LEVEL OF CALCIUM IN THE BLOOD |
| SUBCLAVICULAR | PERTAINING TO BELOW THE CLAVICLE |
| DORSIFLEXION | BACWARD (UPWARD) BENDING OF THE FOOT |
| STERNUM | BREAST BONE |
| CLAVICLE | COLLAR BONE |
| SCAPULA | SHOULDER BONE |
| FEMUR | THIGH BONE |
| RADIUS | LATERAL (THUMB SIDE) LOWER ARM BONE |
| CERVICAL | VETEBRA OF THE NECK REGION |
| URI | UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTION |
| DIAPHRAGM | MUSCLE SEPARATING THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN |
| ALVEOL/O | CF. AIR SAC, ALVEOLUS, |
| PLEURA CAVITY | SPACE BETWEEN THE FOLDS OF THE PLEURA |
| SINUS/O | CF. HOLLOW, CAVITY, SINUS |
| EPIGLOTT/O | EPIGGLOTIS |
| VISCERAL PLEURA | INNER FOLD OF PLEURA LYING CLOSEST TO THE LUNG TISSUE |
| DPT | DIPTHERIA, PERTUSSIS, TETANUS |
| CYANOSIS | IS AN ABNORMAL BLUISH COLOR TO THE SKIN DUT TO DEFICIENT BLOOD SUPPLY |
| TRACHE/O | TRACHEA WINDPIPE |
| LARYNG/O | CF. VOICE BOX, LARYNX |
| DYSPNEA, TACHYPNEA, PERSISTENT COUGH WITH HEMOPTYSIS AND PLEURITIC PAIN | SYMPTOMS INCLUDE: RAPID AND SHALLOW BREATHING, DIFFICULT BREATHING, SPITTING UP OF BLOOD |
| PUS | PURULENT SPUTUM |
| SINUSITIS | INFLAMMATION OF A SINUS |
| EMPHYSEMA | PULMONARY DISEASE CAUSING HYPERINFLATION OF THE AIR SACS |
| ATELACTASIS | COLLAPSED LUNG (INCOMPLETE EXPANSION OF THE LUNG) |
| ORTHOPNEA | ABLE TO BREATHE ONLY IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION |
| PHARYNX | THE THROAT |
| EXTERNAL RESPIRATION | THE EXCHANGE OF AIR BETWEEN THE OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CAPILLARIES OF THE LUNGS |
| EPISTAXIS | NOSEBLEED |
| HYPERCAPNIA | EXCESSIVE CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE BLOOD |
| BRONCHIECTASIS | DILATION OF THE BRONCHUS OR BRONCHIAL TUBE |
| ANTHRACOSIS | COAL DUST ACCUMULATED IN THE LUNGS |
| FEMUR | TIGH BONE |
