Axia College 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.

1. Pertaining to the lower back lumbo/o
2. Pertaining to below the stomach gastr/o
3. Pertaining to the naval umbilic/o
4. Pertaining to the front part anter/o
5. Pertaining to going toward the front part ventr/o
6. Pertaining to the groin inguin/o
7. Pertaining to the back part post/o
8. Pertaining to going toward the back part dors/o
9. Pertaining to going toward the middle medi/o
10. Pertaining to going toward the side later/o
11. Pertaining to above super/o
12. Pertaining to below infer/o
13. In the direction of the tailbone caud/o
B. Define the following words or word parts.

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.

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-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
-ad .
A prefix denoting ‘towards’ as in addiction.
-ior
A suffix denoting comparatives as in ‘superior’
-ics
A suffix denoting a body of facts, knowledge, principles, as in ‘kinetics’; as denotes action, activities, or practice of as in athletics.
Ana-
A prefix that could mean three things: upward, or up as in anabolism: backward or back as in “anaplasia’ and again or a new as in “anaphylaxis.
Prone
Lying on abdomen or face.
Supine
Lying on back or face and palms up.
viscera-
Refers to the internal organs of the body.
transverse
Lying or extending across or in a cross direction.
Hypo-...