Medical Terminology Simplified

2–8 Practice building medical terms with dors/o, later/o,and ventr/o.

Form medical terms that mean pertaining to the

back (of body):__________ / __________

side, to one side:____________________ / __________

belly, belly side:____________________ / __________

2–9 Frame 2–7 reviews six adjective suffixes that mean pertaining to.Four addi-

tional adjective suffixes meaning pertaining tothat are common in medical terms are

-ary, -eal, -ous,and -tic.You may want to summarize these suffixes on a 5 ̋×3 ̋

index card and keep it in your book as a reference until you commit all of them to

memory. However, if you are in doubt about meanings of any word elements, refer to

Appendix A: Glossary of Medical Word Elements.

List in alphabetical order the 10 adjective suffixes that mean pertaining to.

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

Frame 2–3to Frame 2–9

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dors/al

DŌR-săl

later/al

LĂT-ĕr-ăl

ventr/al

VĔN-trăl

-ac

-al

-ar

-ary

-eal

-iac

-ic

-ior

-ous

-tic