Terms-Body as a whole
Terms
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- sagittal
- vertical plane that divides the body into right and left portions
- prone
- lying on the belly
- dist/o
- far, distant
- lateral
- pertaining to the side
- lumb/o
- lower back
- poster/o
- behind, back
- tailbone region
- Coccygeal
- proxim/o
- nearest
- superior
- above another structure
- umbilic/o
- umbilicus
- mitochondria
- sausage-like structures within the cell in which foods are burned to release energy
- bol/o
- to cast (throw)
- medial
- pertaining to the middle
- -ior
- pertaining to
- transverse
- horizontal plane that divides the body into upper and lower portions
- trache/o
- trachea
- endoplasmic reticulum
- the canal-like structure in the cell
- later/o
- side
- chromosomes
- contain the genes
- -somes
- bodies
- diaphragm
- muscular wall separating the thoracic and abdominal cavities
- -ectomy
- cutting out
- anabolism
- building up proteins
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- inferior
- below another structure
- thel/o
- nipple
- vertebra
- a backbone
- hypo-
- below
- proximal
- near the point of attachment to the trunk or near the beginning of a structure
- pelv/o
- pelvis, hip
- peritoneum
- membrane surrounding the abdominal viscera
- -iac
- pertaining to
- region of the sacrum
- Sacral (S1-S5)
- cyt/o
- cell
- dorsal (posterior)
- back of the body
- coccyg/o
- tailbone or coccyx
- pleural
- membrane surrounding the lungs
- cata-
- down
- dors/o
- back
- nucleus
- the command center of the cell
- chondr/o
- cartilage
- cell membrane
- covering surrounding the cell
- chrom/o
- color
- ventral (anterior)
- front of the body
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- mediastinum
- space between the lungs, containing the heart, windpipe, aorta
- cervic/o
- neck
- catabolism
- breaking down protein to produce energy
- medi/o
- middle
- supine
- lying on the back
- -ism
- process
- distal
- far from the point of attachment to the trunk or far from the beginning of a structure
- ili/o
- ilium
- away from the surface of the body
- deep
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae
- DNA
- the chemical attached to chromosomes
- sarc/o
- flesh
- disc or disk
- a pad of cartilage between each backbone and the next
- adip/o
- fat
- metabolism
- combination of anabolism and catabolism--activities within the cytoplasm
- thorac/o
- chest
- on the surface of the body
- superficial
- abdomin/o
- abdominal cavity
- frontal
- vertical plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior portions
- anter/o
- front
- ventr/o
- belly side of body
- spin/o
- spine
- hist/o
- tissue
- crani/o
- skull
- meta-
- change
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- -oma
- tumor
- inguin/o
- groin
- chest region
- Thoracic (T1-T12)
- -ose
- full of
- neck region
- Cervical (C1-C7)
- lower back (loin) region
- Lumbar (L1-L5)
- -plasm
- formation
- kary/o
- nucleus
- -type
- picture
- -tomy
- cutting out
- epi-
- above
- -eal
- pertaining to
- ana-
- up
- inter-
- between