Chapter 4 - Body Openings and Plural Endings

Question 1

Aperture

Answer 1

An opening or orifice

Question 2

Canal (alimentary)

Answer 2

The musculomembranous digestive tube extending from the mouth to the anus

Question 3

Canal (vaginal)

Answer 3

The canal in the femal from the vulva to the cervix uteri that receives the penis in copulation

Question 4

Cavity

Answer 4

A hollow place or space, or potential space, within the body or one of its organs

Question 5

Constriction

Answer 5

Making something narrow; to contract; to close (an opening)

Question 6

Dilatation

dilation

Answer 6

Stretched beyond normal dimensions; the widening of something; expansion, opening

Question 7

Foramen

Answer 7

A natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone

Question 8

Hiatus

Answer 8

A gap, cleft, or opening

Question 9

Introitus

Answer 9

Opening or entrace to a canal or cavity such as the vagina

Question 10

Lumen

Answer 10

Opening within a hollow tube or organ

Question 11

Meatus

Answer 11

Urinary passage or opening

Question 12

Orifice

Answer 12

Any orifice, such as the anal orfice

Question 13

Os

Answer 13

Mouth opening; os uteri: mouth of the uterus, or cervix

Question 14

Patent

Answer 14

Adjective, meaning open or not plugged, as in “the tube is patent”

Question 15

Perforation

Answer 15

A hole in something, e.g., perforation of the stomach wall by a gastic ulcer

Question 16

Stoma

Answer 16

Artificial opening established by colostomy, ileostomy, and tracheostomy

Question 17

Ventricle

Answer 17

A small cavity or chamber, as in the brain or heart

Question 18

A (plural ending?)

Answer 18

Ae

Question 19

Ax (plural ending?)

Answer 19

Aces

Question 20

En (plural ending?)

Answer 20

Ina

Question 21

Is (plural ending?)

Answer 21

Es

a

Question 22

Ix (plural ending?)

Answer 22

Ices

Question 23

Inx (plural ending?)

Answer 23

Inges

Question 24

Nx (plural ending?)

Answer 24

Ges

Question 25

On (plural ending?)

Answer 25

A

Question 26

Um (plural ending?)

Answer 26

A

Question 27

Us (plural ending?)

Answer 27

I

Question 28

Ur (plural ending?)

Answer 28

Ora

Question 29

Y (plural ending?)

Answer 29

Ies