Hca 220 Appendix C

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.

-ior

-al

poster/o-

medi/o

-ly

later/o-

dors/o-

-ar

super/o-

gastr/o-

infer/o-

caud/o-

ventr/o-

-ad

lumb/o- umbilic/o-

inguin/o-

hypo-

anter/o-

-ic

2. Pertaining to below the stomach hypogastric

3. Pertaining to the naval umbilical

4. Pertaining to the front part anterior

5. Pertaining to going toward the front part anteriorly

6. Pertaining to the groin inguinal

7. Pertaining to the back part posterior

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 superior

12. Pertaining to below inferior

13. In the direction of the tailbone caudad

B. Define the following words or word parts.

-ad

Toward, in the direction of -ior

Pertaining to

-ics

Knowledge, practice Ana- Apart from; excessive

Prone

Inclined downward Supine Lying on the back

viscera-

Soft internal organs transverse

To turn across ( this divides the body into a top and bottom section)

Hypo-

Below; deficient Re-

Again and again; backward; unable to

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 Prefix Combining form Additional Combining form or suffix Suffix Definition

Anteroposterior Anter/o poster/o ior Pertaining to before the back part.

Sentence: We will do a complete anteroposterior examination of the patient to determine the cause of pain.

Midsagittal mid sagitt/o al Pertaining to middle going from front to back.

Sentence: During the exam we will be testing starting...