Chapter 5: Medical Terminology

Question 1

Motion of a limb away from the midline

Answer 1

Abduction

Question 2

Motion of a limb toward the midline

Answer 2

Adduction

Question 3

The front surface of the body; the side facing you in the standard anatomic position.

Answer 3

Anterior

Question 4

The pointed extremity of a conical structure

Answer 4

Apex (plural apices)

Question 5

A body part or condition that appears on both sides of the midline

Answer 5

Bilateral

Question 6

The vowel used to combine two word roots or a word root and suffix

Answer 6

Combining vowel

Question 7

Farther inside the body and away from the skin

Answer 7

Deep

Question 8

Further from the trunk or nearer to the free and the extremity

Answer 8

Distal

Question 9

The posterior surface of the body including the back of the hand

Answer 9

Dorsal

Question 10

The straightening of a joint

Answer 10

Extension

Question 11

The bending of a joint

Answer 11

Flexion

Question 12

And inclined position in which the head of the bed is raised

Answer 12

Fowler position

Question 13

Below a body part or nearer to the feet

Answer 13

Inferior

Question 14

Parts of the body that lie farther from the midline; also called outer structures

Answer 14

Lateral

Question 15

Parts of the body that lie closer to the midline; also called inner structures

Answer 15

Medial

Question 16

The forward facing part of the hand in the anatomic position

Answer 16

Palmar

Question 17

The bottom surface of the foot

Answer 17

Plantar

Question 18

The back surface of the body; the side away from you in the standard anatomic position

Answer 18

Posterior

Question 19

Part of a term that appears before a word root, changing the meaning of the term

Answer 19

Prefix

Question 20

Laying face down

Answer 20

Prone

Question 21

Closer to the trunk

Answer 21

Proximal

Question 22

Describes the sections of the abdominal cavity, in which two imaginary lines intersect at the umbilicus, dividing the abdomen into four equal areas.

Answer 22

Quadrants

Question 23

The part of a term that comes after the root word, at the end of the term.

Answer 23

Suffix

Question 24

Closer to or on the skin

Answer 24

Superficial

Question 25

Above a body part or nearer to the head

Answer 25

Superior

Question 26

Lying face up

Answer 26

Supine

Question 27

The anterior surface of the body

Answer 27

Ventral

Question 28

The main part of a term that contains the primary meaning

Answer 28

Word root