Week Eight Medical Terms

Mrs. Kings Class

Eversion

Turning outward or inside out

Inferior

Below or directed downward

Internal

Inside

Medial

Midline

Peripheral

Outside the central area

Prone

Lying on the abdomen

Proximal

Toward the center or point of attachment

Recumbent

Lying down

Supine

Lying on the back

Superior

Above or directed upward

Quadrant

Dividing an area horizontally or vertically

Trendelenburg

Lying with head lower than the legs

Sims

Lateral with knee and thigh up

Rotation

Turning around an axis

Sinistro

Left

Lithotomy

On the back, flexing legs with abducted thighs

Dextro

Right

Caudal

tail

Sclerosis

Hardening condition

Phasia

speech