abduction
movement away from the torso
adduction
movement toward the torso
medial
towards the center of the body
lateral
towards the edges of the body
superior
upper
inferior
lower
proximal
nearest
distal
far / farthest
anterior
to the front of
ventral
to the front of
posterior
to the back of
dorsal
to the back of
parietal
towards the outer wall of a body cavity
visceral
towards the inner organ-occupied part of the cavity
prone
face down
supine
face up
inversion
to turn inwardly
eversion
to turn outwardly
palmar
on the palm-side of the hand
plantar
on the bottom of the foot
superficial
shallow, near the surface
deep
deep
cyt/o
cell
hist/o
tissue
kary/o
nucleus
nucle/o
nucleus
anter/o
front
caud/o
tail
cephal/o
head
dist/o
far
dors/o
back
infer/o
below / lower
later/o
side
poster/o
back
proxim/o
near
abdomin/o
abdomen
cervic/o
the neck, or possibly the cervix if the patient if female
crani/o
the skull
gastr/o
the stomach
ili/o
hip bone
inguin/o
groin
lumb/o
loin
pelv/i or pelv/o
pelvis
spin/o
spine
thorac/o
chest
umbilic/o
navel
albin/o
white
leuk/o
white
chlor/o
green
chrom/o
color
cirrh/o
yellow
jaund/o
yellow
xanth/o
yellow
cyan/o
blue
erythr/o
red
melan/o
black
poli/o
grey
acr/o
extremety
eti/o
cause
idi/o
unknown or peculiar (as in idiopathic)
morph/o
shape
path/o
disease
radi/o
radiation / x-ray / arm bone
somat/o
body
son/o
sound
tom/o
to cut
viscer/o
visceral organs
xer/o
dry
-genesis
forming / production of / origin of
-gnosis
knowing
-gram
a record produced by some form of -graphy
-graph
a machine used to take a recording
-graphy
the act of recording
-pathy
disease
