Located at or toward the front of the body or body part.
Anterior
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A vowel added between two roots or between a root and a suffix to make pronunciation easier.
Combining Vowel
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The part farthest from the centre or from the point of attachment.
Distal
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The back surface of the body - often used to indicate the position of one structure to another.
Dorsal (see posterior)
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The farthest away from the midline of the body.
Lateral
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The closest to the midline of the body.
Medial
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The back surface of the body - often used to indicate the position of one structure in relation to another.
Posterior ( called dorsal)
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A word element placed at the beginning of a word to change the meaning of the word. Prefixes are combined with other word elements.
Prefix
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Nearest to the trunk of the body of the point of origin.
Proximal
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A word element containing the basic meaning of the word.
Root
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A word element placed at the end of the root to change the meaning of the word, but is not used alone.
Suffix
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Located at or toward the front of the body or body part.
Ventral (see Anterior)
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A part of a word.A term is translated by separating the word into elements.Medical terms are made up of word elements (prefix, root, suffix - based on Greek and Latin languages).