College Axia Material
Appendix C
Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 2
Complete activities A, B, & C, and post to the Individual forum.
A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in
problems 1-13. Click the grey box to begin typing.
-ior
-al
poster/omedi/o
-ly
lumbar
later/odors/o-ar
super/ogastr/o-
infer/ocaud/oventr/o-ad
lumb/o-
umbilic/oinguin/ohypoanter/o-ic
1. Pertaining to the lower back
2. Pertaining to below the stomach hypogastrior
3. Pertaining to the naval
umbilical
4. Pertaining to the front part
ventral
5. Pertaining to going toward the front part anteriorly
6. Pertaining to the groin
inguinal
dorsal
7. Pertaining to the back part
8. Pertaining to going toward the back part
posteriorly
9. Pertaining to going toward the middle
medially
10. Pertaining to going toward the side laterally
11. Pertaining to above
12. Pertaining to below
superior
inferior
13. In the direction of the tailbone
caudad
B. Define the following words or word parts.
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-ad
-ics
Prone
viscera-
Hypo-
Toward; in direction
of
Knowledge; practice
-ior
Pertaining to
Ana-
Latin for inclined
downward
Latin for "soft
internal organs
Supine
Below; deficient
Re-
Apart from;
excessive
Latin lying for on the
back
Plane that divides
body into top and
bottom or superior
and inferior pieces
Again and again;
backward; unable to
transverse
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C. In this activity, break the medical word into its word parts. Using the word parts, create a
definition of the word. Write a sentence using the word in a medical context. Use the table to
record your answers.
Medical Word
Anteroposterior
Prefi
x
Combining
form
Additional
Combining
form or suffix
Suffix
Anter/o
Poster/o
-ior
Sentence: The bullet went anteroposteriorly through her body.
Definition
Moving from outside the body through
the front and out the back
Plane that divides the body into right
Mid
Sagitt/o
-al
and left sections
Sentence: A midsagittal view of the skull in an MRI can help determine where the problem areas are.
Midsagittal
Distally
Dist/o
Sentence: Then infection is spreading distally on her leg.
Proximally
AProxim/o
Sentence: The cut runs proximally on her arm.
-al, -ly
Pertaining to going toward the end of a
limb from the body
-al, -ly
Pertaining to going toward the body
from the end of a limb
Physiology
Physic/o
-logy
The study of physical function
Sentence: If you want to study physiology you should first learn anatomy.
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