Chapter 2 Medical Terminology
Terms
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- kary/o
- nucleus
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- hist/o
- tissue
- lumb/o
- lumbar
- pelv/o
- hip, pelvic cavity
- poster/o
- back
- -ism
- process
- meta-
- change
- cata-
- down
- ana-
- up
- thel/o
- nipple
- -ior
- pertaining to
- -iac
- pertaining to
- -eal
- pertaining to
- adip/o
- fat
- bol/o
- to cast
- cervic/o
- neck (of the body or of the uterus)
- chondr/o
- cartilage (type of connective tissue)
- crani/o
- skull
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- anter/o
- front
- chrom/o
- color
- coccyg/o
- coccyx (tailbone)
- cyt/o
- cell
- dist/o
- far, distant
- ili/o
- ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
- inguin/o
- groin
- later/o
- side
- medi/o
- middle
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- spin/o
- spine, backbone
- trache/o
- trachea
- umbilic/o
- navel, umbilicus
- epi-
- above
- hypo-
- below
- inter-
- between
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae
- thorac/o
- chest
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- dors/o
- back portion of the body
- ventr/o
- belly side of the body
- proxim/o
- near