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Appendix C Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 2

Complete activities A, B, & C. -ior -al poster/omedi/o -ly later/odors/o-ar super/ogastr/oinfer/ocaud/oventr/o-ad lumb/oumbilic/oinguin/ohypoanter/o-ic

A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in problems 1-13. Click the grey box to begin typing.

Lumbar

1. Pertaining to the lower back 2. Pertaining to below the stomach hypogastric 3. Pertaining to the naval umbilical Anterior Anteriorly

4. Pertaining to the front part

5. pertaining to going toward the front part 6. Pertaining to the groin 7. Pertaining to the back part inguinal

posterior Posteriorly Medially laterally

8. pertaining to going toward the back part 9. pertaining to going toward the middle 10. pertaining to going toward the side 11. Pertaining to above 12. Pertaining to below superior inferior caudad

13. in the direction of the tailbone

B. Define the following words or word parts.

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-ad -ics Prone visceraHypo-

Pertaining toward: in direction Knowledge; practice Position of lying on anterior part All of the internal organs in the body cavity Below ,deficient

-ior AnaSupine transverse Re-

Pertaining to Apart from :excessive Lying on back Across, through Again/again;backward;unable to

C. In this activity, break the medical word into its word parts. Using the word parts, create a definition of the word. Write a sentence using the word in a medical context. Use the table to record your answers. Combining form Additional Combining form or suffix

Medical Word Anteroposterior

Prefix

Suffix

Definition

Anter/o Poster/o Ior Perntaing to the back Sentence: Janet had to go back to the test center because her anteroposterior x-ray was abnormal, Midsagittal

Mid Sagitt/o Al Pertaining to the middle Sentence: The Belly button is located on the midsagital of the body. Pertaining to going away from the Dist/o Al Ly center Sentence: When a student looks views distal plan they are looking at the diagram. Distally Pertaining to or going towards the Proxim/o Al Ly center Sentence: The medical cut ran proximally from the wrist to the elbow. Proximally Physiology

Physioc/o Logy Sentence: My sister needs to study for her physiology test.

Study of physical function

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