Med Terms module 2

abdomen

fat

front

to cast, throw

neck (of body or uterus)

cartilage (connective tissue)

color

coccyx (tailbone)

skull

cell

far, distant

back portion of body

tissue

ilium (top portion of hip bone)

groin

nucleus

side

lower back (between the ribs and pelvis)

middle

nucleus

pelvis, hip region

back, behind

near

sacrum

flesh

spine, backbone

nipple

chest

trachea, windpipe

navel, umbilicus

belly side of body

vertebra, backbone

internal organs

• up
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• down
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• above
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• below
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• between
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• change
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• pertaining to
• s

• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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• process, condition
• s

• pertaining to, full of
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• formation
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• bodies
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• picture, classification
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extremities, top, extreme point

sharp, severe, sudden

gland

amnion (sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)

vessel

artery

joint

armpit

life

eyelid

bronchial tubes

cancer

heart

drug, chemical

time

colon

urinary bladder

brain

red

blood

liver

water, fluid

to hold back

abdomen, abdominal wall

larynx (voice box)

white

lymph

breast

breast

form, shape

mucus

muscle

spinal cord, bone marrow (context indicates meaning)

death

kidney

nerve

neutrophil (one of the WBCs)

eye

bone

ear

disease

peritoneum

to eat or swallow

vein

formation, development

pleura (membrane surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall)

lungs

x-rays

rectum

kidney

nose

spleen

clusters

twisted chains

clot

tonsils

vein

• pain
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• hernia
• s

• surgical puncture to remove fluid
• s

• berry-shaped
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• cell
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• pain
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• excision; removal, resection
• s

• blood condition
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• condition of producing, forming
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• record
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• instrument for recording
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• process of recording
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• inflammation
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• study of
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• breakdown, destruction, separation
• s

• softening
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• enlargement
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• tumor, mass, collection of fluid
• s

• to view
• s

• condition, usually abnormal
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• disease condition
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• deficiency
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• fear
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• development, formation, growth
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• surgical repair
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• drooping, falling, prolapse
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• hardening
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• instrument for visual examination
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• process of visual examination (with an endoscope)
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• controlling, stopping
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• opening to form a mouth (stoma)
• s

• treatment
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• incision, cutting into
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• development, nourishment
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• one who
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• condition
• s

• specialist
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• little, small
• s

• little, small
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• structure, tissue
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• structure, substance
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• condition, process
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to, producing, produced by or in
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• pertaining to
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• resembling, derived from
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• pertaining to, full of
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• pertaining to
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• pertaining to
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wrist bones

meals

to cut

rib

skin

fingers/toes

to lead, carry

to bend

forking, branching

tongue

sugar

protection

death

birth

to bind, tie, connect

rule, order

oxygen

pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone

infection

sleep

sound

to put, place

thyroid gland; shield (the shape of the thyroid gland resembled [oid] a shield to those who named it)

place, position, location

poison

urethra

• embryonic, immature
• s

• to secrete
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• to run
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• coming together, to pour
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• substance that produces
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• to slide, fall, sag
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• to measure
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• to send
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• one who
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• oxygen
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• birth, labor
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• to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
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• to grow
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• development, formation, growth
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• structure or formation
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• breathing
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• flow, discharge
• s

• no, not, without
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• away from
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• toward
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• up, apart
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• before, forward
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• against
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• self, own
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• two
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• slow
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• down
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• with, together
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• against, opposite
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• down, lack of
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• through, complete
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• bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
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• out, outside
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• in, within
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• upon, on, above
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• good, normal
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• out, outside, away from
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• half
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• excessive, above
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• not
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• into, within
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• beneath, under
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• between
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• in, within, into
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• large
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• bad
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• beyond, change
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• small
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• new
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• all
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• abnormal, beside, near
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• through
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• surrounding
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• many, much
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• after, behind
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• before, in front of
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• before forward
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• before, forward
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• back, again
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• behind, backward
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• under
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• above, upper
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• together, with
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• fast
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• across, through
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• beyond, excess
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• one
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