Lecture Notes

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Lecture Notes
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Body Structure

• Classroom Activity to Accompany Medical
  Terminology Systems, Sixth Edition
• Barbara A. Gylys Mary Ellen Wedding

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Overview
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Levels of organization
• Anatomical position
• Planes of the body
• Body cavities
• Abdominopelvic divisions
• Quadrants
• Regions
• Spine
• Directional terms

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Levels of Organization
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Cell
• Cell membrane and cytoplasm
• Nucleus
• Tissue
• Organ
• System
• Organism

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Directional Terms
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Parietal/Visceral
• Prone/Supine
• Inversion/Eversion
• Palmar/Plantar
• Superficial/Deep

• Abduction/Adduction
• Medial/Lateral
• Superior/Inferior
• Proximal/Distal
• Anterior/Posterior

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Pathology
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Etiology of disease
• Metabolic
• Infectious
• Congenital
• Hereditary
• Environmental
• Neoplastic

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Vocabulary
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Adhesion
• Febrile
• Homeostasis
• Inflammation
• Morbid
• Radiology
• Sepsis
• Suppurative

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Diagnostic Procedures
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Radiographic
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Doppler
• Fluoroscopy
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Nuclear scan
• Positron emission tomography (PET)
• Single photon emission computed tomography
  (SPECT)

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Diagnostic Procedures
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Biopsy
• Frozen section
• Needle
• Punch
• Shave

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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures
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BODY STRUCTURE

• Surgical
• Ablation
• Anastomosis
• Cauterize
• Curettage
• Incision and drainage (ID)
• Laser surgery
• Radical dissection
• Resection