Anatomy lab helpful prefixes and suffixes

abdominal

located below the ribs and above the hips

acromial

point of the shoulder

antebrachial

forearm

antecubital

anterior surface of the elbow

axillary

armpit

brachial

arm (upper portion of the upper limp)

Buccal

Cheek

Calcaneal

Heel of the foot

Carpal

Wrist

Cephalic

Head

Cervical

Neck

Coxal

Hip

Crural

Leg

Digital

Fingers or toes

Femoral

Thigh

Fibular

Side of the leg

Frontal

Forehead

Gluteal

Buttocks

Hallux

Great Toe

Inguinal

Groin

Lumbar

Lower back

Mammary

Breast

Manus

Hand

Mental

Chin

Nasal

Nose

Occipital

back of the head

Olecranal

Back of the elbow

Oral

Mouth

Orbital

bony eye socket

Otic

Ear

Palmar

Palm of the hand

Patellar

Kneecap

Pedal

Foot

Pelvic

pelvis

Perineal

between the anus and the external genitalia

plantar

sole of the foot

pollex

thumb

popliteal

back of the knee

Pubic

Genital

Sacral

posterior region between the hip bones

scapular

shoulder blade

sternal

breastbone

sural

calf

tarsal

ankle

thoracic

chest

umbilical

naval

vertebral

spine

A- and In-

not (for example: avascular is not vascular, involuntary is not voluntary)

adipo

fat (adipocyte is a fat cell)

Ante

before (antebrachial is your forearm- before your arm)

Auto

self (autonomic describes something that functions on its own, without conscious input, like your autonomic nervous system)

Branch

arm (brachioradialis is a muscle in your arm near your radius)

Cardio/cardiac

heart (cardiomyopathy is a disease of heart muscle)

caudo/cauda

tail

cephal

head

ceps

number of muscle origins

cervic

neck

chondro

cartilage

cleido

clavicle

costal

ribs

crani

skull

cyst

bladder

cyte/cytic

cell

endo

within/inside

epi/supra

above

exo/extra

outside

gastric/gastro

making of

glyc/gluc

sugar/glucose

hemato

blood

hypo

below; under

inter

between

intra

within

-itis

inflammation

lacrima

tears

leuko

white

medulla

middle

mid/mes

middle

myo

muscle

neo

new

neur

nerves

optiv/ocular

eyes

-osis

abnormal

osteo

bone

otic

ears

-pathy/-pathic

disease

peri

around

proteo

protein

sub

below

supra

above

throac

chest

tras

across