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The Language of Medicine
Ch.2
58
Medical
Undergraduate 1
06/17/2011
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Term
Hypochondriac
 Definition
Right and left upper regions beneath the ribs.
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Epigastric
 Definition
Middle upper region above the stomach
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Lumbar
 Definition
Right and left middle regions near the waste.
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Umbilical
 Definition
Central region near the navel.
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Inguinal or Iliac
 Definition
Right and left lower regions near the groin.
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Hypogastric
 Definition
Middle lower region below the umbilical region.
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RUQ
 Definition
Right upper quandrant
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LUQ
 Definition
Left upper quadrant
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RLQ
 Definition
Right Lower Quadrant
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LLQ
 Definition
Left lower quandrant
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Bol/o
 Definition
to cast (throw)
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Cervic/o
 Definition
neck (of the body or the uterus)
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Chondr/o
 Definition
Cartilage
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Chrom/o
 Definition
color
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Coccyg/o
 Definition
coccyx (tailbone)
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Crani/o
 Definition
skull
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Cyt/o
 Definition
cell
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Dist/o
 Definition
far, distant
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Dors/o
 Definition
back portion of the body
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Hist/o
 Definition
tissue
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Ili/o
 Definition
ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
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Inguin/o
 Definition
groin
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Kary/o
 Definition
nucleus
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later/o
 Definition
side
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Lumb/o
 Definition
lower back (side and back between the ribs and the pelvis)
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medi/o
 Definition
Middle
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Nucle/o
 Definition
nucleus
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Pelv/o
 Definition
pelvis, hip region
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Poster/o
 Definition
back, behind
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proxim/o
 Definition
nearest
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sacr/o
 Definition
sacrum
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Sarc/o
 Definition
flesh
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Spin/o
 Definition
Spine, backbone
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Thel/o
 Definition
nipple
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Thorac/o
 Definition
chest
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Trache/o
 Definition
trachea, windpipe
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Umbilic/o
 Definition
navel, umbilicus
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Ventr/o
 Definition
belly side of body
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vertebr/o
 Definition
vertebra(e), backbone
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Viscer/o
 Definition
Internal organs
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ana-
 Definition
up
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cata-
 Definition
down
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epi-
 Definition
above
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Hypo-
 Definition
below
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Inter-
 Definition
between
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Meta-
 Definition
change
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-iac

-ior

 Definition
pertaining to
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-iac
 Definition
Term
-ism
 Definition
process, condition
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-ose
 Definition
pertaining to, full of
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-plasm
 Definition
formation
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-somes
 Definition
bodies
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-type
 Definition
picture, classification
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Abdomin/o
 Definition
abdomen
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Adip/o
 Definition
Fat
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Anter/o
 Definition
front
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-ectomy
 Definition
excission, removal of, resection
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-tomy
 Definition
process of cutting
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