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MCPHS Medical Terminology Final Exam
Study Guide
ot/o - answer✔✔combining form: ear
Anterior - answer✔✔Surface region of the body, front (or ventral), including thoracic,
abdominal, and pelvic cavities.
posterior - answer✔✔Surface region of the body, back (or dorsal), cranial and spinal cavities.
prone - answer✔✔lying face down, anterior part of the body down
supine - answer✔✔lying face up, posterior part of the body down
posterioranterior (PA) - answer✔✔type of x-ray, beam passes through the patient back to front
superior - answer✔✔upper half of the body, above
inferior - answer✔✔lower half of the body, below
Distal - answer✔✔away from the body
Proximal - answer✔✔towards the body
cephalad - answer✔✔toward the head
caudad - answer✔✔toward the tailbone, downward
lateral - answer✔✔side; away from the midline
medial - answer✔✔Toward the midline of the body
coronal plane (frontal plane) - answer✔✔divides body into front and back
midsagittal plane - answer✔✔divides the body into equal right and left sides
Transvere Plane - answer✔✔divides body into top and bottom
sagittal plane - answer✔✔divides body into left and right sides, not evenly
ac - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. cardiac
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al - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. intestinal
ar - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. muscular
ary - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. urinary
ic - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. pelvic
ine - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. uterine
ive - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. digestive
ous - answer✔✔suffix: pertaining to, ex. venous
ation - answer✔✔suffix: process, having, being
ion - answer✔✔suffix: action, condition
ia - answer✔✔suffix: condition, state, thing
ism - answer✔✔suffix: disease from a specific cause
itis - answer✔✔suffix: infection of, inflammation of
megaly - answer✔✔suffix: enlargement
oma - answer✔✔suffix: mass, tumor
osis - answer✔✔suffix: abnormal condition, process, ex. psychosis
pathy - answer✔✔suffix: disease
ecotmy - answer✔✔suffix: surgical removal
gram - answer✔✔suffix: picture, record
graphy - answer✔✔suffix: process of recording
metry - answer✔✔suffix: process of measuring
scope - answer✔✔suffix: instrument used to examine
scopy - answer✔✔suffix: process of using an instrument to examine
therapy - answer✔✔suffix: treatment
tomy - answer✔✔suffix: process of cutting, making an incision
iarty - answer✔✔suffix: medical treatment
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ics - answer✔✔suffix: knowledge, practice, ex. dietetics
endo - answer✔✔prefix: innermost, within
epi - answer✔✔prefix: above, upon
inter - answer✔✔prefix: between
intra - answer✔✔prefix: within
peri - answer✔✔prefix: around
post - answer✔✔prefix: after, behind
pre - answer✔✔prefix; before, in front of
sub - answer✔✔prefix: below, underneath
trans - answer✔✔prefix: across, through
bi - answer✔✔prefix: two
brady - answer✔✔prefix: slow
hemi - answer✔✔prefix: one half
hyper - answer✔✔prefix: above, more than normal
hypo - answer✔✔prefix: below, deficient
poly - answer✔✔prefix: many, much
quadri - answer✔✔prefix: four
tachy - answer✔✔prefix: fast
tri - answer✔✔prefix: three
a - answer✔✔prefix: away from, without
an - answer✔✔prefix: not, without
anti - answer✔✔prefix: against
de - answer✔✔prefix: reversal of, without
dys - answer✔✔prefix: abnormal, difficult, painful
eu - answer✔✔prefix: good, normal
