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Touro .Medical Terminology
Chapter 4: Body Openings and Plural Endings
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08/05/2014

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Term
Strata
Definition
Plural of stratum. Layers.
Term
Striae
Definition
A slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement
Term
Aperature
Definition
An opening or orifice
Term
Canal (alimentary)
Definition
The musculomembranous digestive tube extending from the mouth to the anus.
Term
Canal (vaginal)
Definition
The canal in the female from the vulva to the cervix uteri that receives the penis in copulation.
Term
Cavity
Definition
A potential space within the body or one of its organs
Term
Constriction
Definition
Making something narrow. To contract. To close.
Term
Dilatation, dilation
Definition
Widening of something.
Stretched beyond normal dimensions.
Term
Foramen
Definition
A natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone.
Term
Hiatus
Definition
A gap, cleft, or opening
Term
Introitus
Definition
Opening or entrance to a canal or cavity such as the vagina.
Term
Lumen
Definition
Opening within a hallow tube or organ
Term
Meatus
Definition
Urainary passage or opening
Term
Orifice
Definition
Any orifice, such as the anal orifice
Term
Os
Definition
Os (Mouth opening).

Os uteri (mouth of the uterus or cervix.
Term
Patent
Definition
Open or not plugged
Term
Perforation
Definition
A hole in something
Term
Stoma
Definition
Artificial opening established by colostomy, ileostomy, or tracheostomy
Term
Ventricle
Definition
A small cavity or chamber, as in the brain or heart
Term
Hidr/o
Definition
Sweat
Term
Hydr/o
Definition
Water, relating to water
Term
Bursa (give plural)
Definition
Bursae (give singular)
Term
Vertebra (give plural)
Definition
Vertebrae (give singular)
Term
Thorax (give plural)
Definition
Thoraces (give singular)
Term
Lumen (give plural)
Definition
Lumina (give singular)
Term
Foramen (give plural)
Definition
Foramina (give singular)
Term
Crisis (give plural)
Definition
Crises (give singular)
Term
Diagnosis (give plural)
Definition
Diagnoses (give singular)
Term
Femoris (give plural)
Definition
Femora (give singular)
Term
Appendix (give plural)
Definition
Appendices (give singular)
Term
Meninx (give plural)
Definition
Mininges (give singular)
Term
-a
Give plural ending
Definition
-ae
Give singular ending
Term
-ax
Give plural ending.
Definition
-aces
give singular ending
Term
-en
Give plural ending
Definition
-ina
Give singular ending
Term
-is
Give plural ending
Definition
-es (except for femoris, whose plural form is femora).

Give singular ending for "-es"
Term
-ix
Give plural ending
Definition
-ices
Give singular ending
Term
-inx
Give plural ending
Definition
-inges
Igive singular ending
Term
-nx
Give plural ending
Definition
-nges
Give singular ending
Term
-on
Give plural ending
Definition
-a
Term
-um
Give plural ending
Definition
-a
Term
-us
Give plural ending
Definition
-i
Give singular ending
Term
-ur
Give plural ending
Definition
-ora
Give singular form
Term
-y
Give plural ending
Definition
-ies
Give singular form
Term
-a
(is a plural ending)
Give 3 examples of its singular endings?
Definition
-um
-on
-is (only applies to femoris, which is the singular form of femora)
Term
Phalanx (give plural form)
Definition
Phalanges (give singular form)
Term
Spermatozoon (give plural form)
Definition
Spermatozoa (give singular form
Term
Diverticulum (give plural ending)
Definition
Diverticula (give singular ending)
Term
Ovum (give plural ending)
Definition
Ova (give singular ending)
Term
Nucleus (give plural ending)
Definition
Nuclei (give singular ending)
Term
Thrombus (give plural ending)
Definition
Thrombi (give singular ending)
Term
Femur (give plural ending)
Definition
Femora (give singular ending)
Term
Artery (give plural form)
Definition
Arteries (give singular form)
Term
Ovary (give plural form)
Definition
Ovaries (give singular form)
Term
Sarc/o
Definition
Flesh (connetive tissue)
Cancer of connective tissue
Term
Sacr/o
Definition
Sascrum
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