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Anterior

Ventral

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In front of, toward the front of the body

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Caudal

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Pertaining to the tail (inferior in position)

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Cephalic

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Pertaining to the head (superior in position)

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Deep

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Inside, or toward the innermost part

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Distal

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Away from the attachment point or beginning

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Inferior

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Below, toward the feet

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Lateral

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To the side of, away from the midline

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Medial

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Middle, toward the midline of the body

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Posterior

Dorsal

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In back of, toward the back of the body

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Proximal

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Close to the attachment point or beginning

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Superficial

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Outside, or toward the outermost part

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Superior

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Above, toward the head

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Coronal plane

Frontal plane

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Vertical section that divides the body or part into anterior and posterior parts

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Oblique

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An angled section, not vertical or horizontal

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Sagittal plane

Longitudinal plane

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Vertical section that divides the body or part into right and left sides

Note: midsagittal refers to a sagittal plane down the middle of the body

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Transverse plane
Horizontal plane
Axial plane

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Horizontal section that divides the body or part into superior and inferior parts

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Acute

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Sudden, short lasting a short time (typically <2 weeks)

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Aggravating factor

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Something which makes the problem worse

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Alleviating factor

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Something which makes the problem better

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Chronic

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Lasting a long time (typically >2weeks)

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Complaint

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Reason for the patient’s visit

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Duration

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How long something has lasted

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Gastrointestinal

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Stomach and intestines

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Hematochezia

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Blood in the stool

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History

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What has happened to the patient up to this moment

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Musculoskeletal

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Muscles and skeleton

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Radiating

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Pain that feels like it is moving from one spot to another

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Severity

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How bad it is

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Symptom

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Symptom what the patient feels or is experiencing

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Temporal

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Having to do with time

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Auscultation

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To listen

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Biopsy

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Tissue sample to be tested

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Edema

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Swelling

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-gram

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Visual record

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-graph

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Instrument used to produce a visual record

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-graphy

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Procedure used to produce a visual record

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Localized

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Isolated to one part of the body

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-meter

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Instrument used to measure

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-metry

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Process of measuring

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Palpation

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To feel

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-scope

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Instrument for visualizing something

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-scopy

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Process of using an instrument to visualize something

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Sign

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What the clinician can measure or observe

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Systemic

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Throughout the body

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Therm/o

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Temperature

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Benign

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Safe, non-cancerous

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Diagnosis

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What the clinician thinks the patient has

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Eti/o

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How something came to be

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-gnosis

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To know

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Hernia

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Something that sticks out where it shouldn’t

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Ischemia

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Without blood flow

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Lesion

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Diseased tissue

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Lith/o

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Stone

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Malignant

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Dangerous, cancerous

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Morbidity

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Risk of being sick

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Morph/o

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Change

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Mortality

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Risk of dying

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Necr/o

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Dead

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-osis

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Condition

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Path/o

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Disease (literally, “suffering”)

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Plas/o

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Formation

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Prognosis

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Prediction of what will happen to the patient

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Septic

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Infection with bacteria

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Trop/o

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Moving toward or acting on

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-trophy

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Nourishment

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Xen/o

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Foreign

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Cautery

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To burn or melt

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Cry/o

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Cold, to freeze

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Dessicate

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To dry out

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-ectomy

A

Removal (notice ec-in prefixes list means “out of” and -tomy in this list means “cutting” so “cutting out of”)

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Graft

A

Living tissue

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Matern/o

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Mother

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Neonat/o

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Newborn, baby

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Orth/o

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Straight

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Palliative

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Treatment of symptoms only

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Ped/i

Ped/o

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Child

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-pexy

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Surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure (compare -desis)

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-plasty

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Surgical reconstruction or reformation

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Prophylaxis

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Preventative treatment

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Psych/o

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Mind, mental

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-rrhaphy

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Surgical formation of a seam; suturing

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-stomy

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Creation of an opening (see stoma = “mouth”)

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-tomy

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Cut; incision

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-tripsy

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Breaking apart (Greek tribein, “to rub”)

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APSO

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Assessment, plan, subjective, and objective

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Bx

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Biopsy

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CC

A

Chief complain (presenting problem)

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Dx

A

Diagnosis

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GI

A

Gastrointestinal

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HEADSS

A

Home & environment; education, employment, eating; activities; drugs; sexuality; suicide/depression

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HPI

A

History of present illness

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Hx

A

History

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OLDCARTS

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Onset, location, duration, characterization, alleviating & aggravating factors, radiation, temporal factor, severity

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Rx

A

Prescription

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SOAP

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Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (an organizational scheme for clinic notes)

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Tx

A

Treatment or therapy

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-ate

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“Make it so” word ending

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-genic

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Creating; giving rise to

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-opsy

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Viewing

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  • osis

- oses (plural)

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Condition

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-vent

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Turn (Latin vertere, “to turn”)

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Ana-

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Up

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Ante-

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Before, in front of

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Aut/o

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Self, eyewitness

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De-

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Down or away from

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Dia-

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Apart

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In-

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In, on

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Ipsi-

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Same (place); Latin ipse, “self”

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Mid-

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Halfway across

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Para-

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Parallel

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Re-

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Again

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Retro-

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Behind

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Sym-

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Together (symphony, musicians playing together)

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Trans-

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Across or through

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Abdomen

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Belly

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Abdominal

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Pertaining to the abdomen

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Afferent

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Going toward

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Anterior

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Toward the front

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Anus

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Inferior opening of the intestines; Latin anus, “ring”; annulus “little ring”

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Coronal

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Crown-like (Latin corona)

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Cubit

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Forearm

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Distal

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Further away (from a joint)

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Dorsal

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Toward the back

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Duc

Duct

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Leading around, Latin ducere, “lead”

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Efferent

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Going away from

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Extension

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Increasing the angle of a joint

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Flexion

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Decreasing the angle of a joint

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Frontal

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In front

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Gurgit

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Latin, “whirlpool”

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Horizontal

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Parallel to the ground

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Inferior

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Below

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Lateral

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Away from the midline; side

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Medial

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Toward the midline

134
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Peritoneum

A

Membrane covering most of the abdominal organs

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Popliteal

A

Back of the knee

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Posterior

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Toward the back

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Prone

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Latin pronus, “leaning forward”

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Proximal

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Closer to (a joint)

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Sagittal

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Like an archer

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Superior

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Above

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Supine

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Latin supinus, “bent backward”, “lying on the back”

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Thorax (plural thoraces)

A

Chest

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Thoracic

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Pertaining to the thorax

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Transverse

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Across the long axis

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Ventral

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Toward the belly

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Verse

A

Turn (Latin vertere, “to turn”)

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