The Language of Medicine Flashcards
What is a cell?
The fundamental unit of all living things.
What are the major parts of a cell?
Chromosomes, nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm, itochondria, endoplasmic reticulum.
What makes up the structural organization of the body?
Cells, Tissue, Organs, Systems.
Types of cellys to identify:
Epithelial cell, fat cell, nerve cell, and muscle cell.
Types of Body Cavities:
Cranial, Thoracic, Abdominal, Pelvic, and Signal.
What are Body Cavities?
Spaces with in the body that contain internal organs.
What organ is in the cranial?
The brain.
What organs are in the Thoracic?
Lung, Pancreas, heart, liver, esophogus, gall bladder, trachea, and bronchitubes.
What organs are in the Abdominal?
Stomach, Liver, S/L intestines, spleen, gall bladder, and pancreas.
What organs are in the Pelvic portion?
S/L Intestines, bladder, rectum, urethra, ureters, uterus, vagina
What is in the Signal ?
Nerves in the spinal cord.
What are the anotomical devisions of the back?
Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, and coccygeal.
Abdomin/ o
Abdomin
Adip/ o
fat
Anter/o
anterial ( front)
Cervic/ o
Neck ( uterus)
Chondr/o
cartilage
Chrom/o
color
Coccyg/ o
tail bone
Crani/ o
skull
Cyt/ o
cell
Dist/ o
far/ distance
Dors/ 0
back portion of body
Hist/o , Histi/ o
tissue
ili/ o
illium of pelvic bone
inguin/o
groin
kary/ o
nucleus
later/o
side
lumb/ o
lower back
medi/ o
middle
nucle/ o
nucleus
pelvi/ i
pelvis
poster/ o
back
proxim/ o
near/ close
sacr/ o
sacrum
sarc/ o
flesh
spin/ o
back bone
thel/o , theli/ o
nipple
thorac/ o
chest
thrache/ o
wind pipe/ trachea
umbilic/ o
umbilicous/ navel
ventr/ o
belly side
vertebr/ o
vertebrae- back bone
viscer/ o
internal organs
ana-
up
cata-
down
epi-
above
hypo-
below
inter-
between
intra-
with in
meta-
change
-eal
pertaining to
-iac
pertaining to
-ior
pertaining to
-ism
process or condition
-ose
pertaining to/ full of
-somes
bodies
-type
picture, classification
aden/ o
gland
arthr/ o
joint
bi/ o
life
carcin/ o
cancer/ cancerous
cardi/o `
heart
cephal/ o
head
cerebr/ o
brain cerebrum
cis/ o
to cut
crin/ o
to secrete
cyst/o
urinary bladder
cyto/ o
cell
derm/ o or dermat/ o
skin
electr/ o
electricity
enter/ o
intestines
erythr/ o
red
gastr/ o
stomach
glyc/ o
sugar
gnos/ o
knowledge
hemat/ o or hem/ o
blood
hepat/ o
liver
iatr/o
treatment/ physician
leuk/ o
white
log/ o
study of
nephr/ o
kidney
neur/o
nerve
onc/ o
tumor
ophthalm/ o
eye
oste/ o
bone
path/ o
disease
ped/ o
child
psych/ o
mind
radi/o
x rays
ren/o
kidney
rhin/o
nose
sarc/o
flesh
sect/ o
to cut
thromb/ o
clot, clotting
ur/o
UT, urine
-ac
pertaining to
-al
pertaining to
-algia
pain
-cyte
cell
-ectomy
excision, removal
-emia
blood condition
-genic
produced by or in
-globin
protein
-gram
record
-ic,ical
pertaining to
-ion
process
-ist
specialist
-itis
inlfammation
-ology
process, study of
-oma
tumor, mass, swelling
-opsy
process of viewing condition
-osis
usually abnormal
-pathy
disease condition
-scope
instrument to visually examine
-scopy
process of visually examining
-sis
state of, condition
-tomy
process of cutting/ incesion
-y
process/ condition
a-. an-
no, not, with out
aut-, auto
self/ own
dia-
complete, through
end- endo
within
epi-
above, upon
ex-, exo-
out, outside of, outward.
