Chapter 20-Exam
Terms
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- Histology
- Study of tissues
- Abduction
- Move away from median plane
- Adduction
- Movement towards the medican plane
- Medial
- Pertaining to the midline of the body
- Lateral
- Pertaining to the side
- Superior
- Toward the top of the head
- Inferior
- Away from the head or towards the tail, or lower part of the body
- Proximal
- Near to the center or to the point of attachment
- Distal
- Further from the center or point of attachment
- Anterior
- Near the front of the body
- Posterior
- Near the back of the body
- Parietal
- Pertaining to the outer wall of the body cavity
- Visceral
- Pertaining to the visera, or internal organs, especially the abdominal organs
- Prone
- Lying horizontal with the face downward, or indicating the position of the hand with the palms turned downward
- Supine
- Lying on the back with the face upward, or indicating the position of the hand with the palm or foot facing upward
- Inversion
- Turning inward or inside out
- Eversion
- Turning outward
- Palmar
- Pertaining to the palm of the hand
- Plantar
- Pertaining to the sole of the foot
- Superficial
- Toward the surface of the body
- Deep
- Away from the surface of the body
- hist/o
- Tissue
- Nucle/o
- Nucleus
- anter/o
- anterior, front
- crani/o
- cranium
- dist/o
- Farthest, distal
- dors/o
- back (of the body)
- infer/o
- lower, below
- later/o
- side
- medi/o
- middle
- poster/o
- back (of the body) behind, posterior
- proxim/o
- near, nearest
- ventr/o
- belly, belly side
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- cervic/o
- neck, of uterus
- gastr/o
- stomach
- ili/o
- ilium, hip bone
- inguin/o
- groin
- lumb/o
- loins, lower back
- umbilic/o
- navel
-
pelv/o
pelv/i - pelvis
- thorac/o
- chest
- albin/o
- white
- leuk/o
- white
- chlor/o
- green
- chrom/o
- color
- cirrh/o
- yellow
- jaund/o
- yellow
- xanth/o
- yellow
- cyan/o
- blue
- erythr/o
- red
- melan/o
- black
- poli/o
- gray
- eti/o
- cause
- morph/o
- form, shape, structure
- path/o
- disease
- radi/o
- radiation, x-ray; radius
- son/o
- sound
- xer/o
- dry
- -logy
- study of