Directional Terminology: A Case Study

Directional Terminology
PART ONE:
Before a good workout in certain cases, abduction of the leg is important when stretching keeping a slight degree of flexion in the knees.
When doing squats, I adduct my hips from the midsagittal plane of my body.
When at the office patients going for bariatric surgery the doctor has patients go for a routine upper endoscopy checking important visceral organs that are medial, clearing patient of any visible ulcers or obstructions. A biopsy is then taken and sent to the lab for further testing.
Last night I was laying laterally on the right side of my body while reading a book until I fell asleep.
In the hospital doctors are superior to physician assistants.
Medical assistance is inferior to nurses.
I thought maybe I fractured the parietal wall of my side while working out, the doctor then conducted a physical exam of the upper ventral thoracic and abdomen region. Dr. Newman wanted to make sure my rib cage was proximal to one another ruling out any fractions or inflammation.
When running on the treadmill I like to keep my shoulders back, head is distal from my feet and well protected with Nike running sneakers.
This afternoon my cousin Samantha and I sat anterior to each other on the couch as we watched all of her favorite Netflix series.
While my cousin and I were sitting posteriorly on the couch, my aunt Cher sat dorsal at the kitchen table, as she worked on her project for school.
While the ladies were gathered in the living room area, my cousin Alex was in his room prone to the mattress on his abdomen snoring.
This morning I woke up woke up with my back supine on the
Suffix (Element) - an element at the end of a medical term (after the root element) which frequently describes a condition of a body part or an action to a body part. Can also refer to a Procedure, Condition, Disorder or Disease Additional Medical Terminology Components include: Word Terminal - a word terminal is a suffix or word ending which denotes the part of speech of the medical term (noun, verb, adjective).
Combining Vowel - a combining vowel (usually O or I and less frequently U) is used between two elements of a medical term to make the term easier to pronounce. Occasionally the other vowels may be used.
Example:
Without combining vowel: hepatmalacia (hepat/malacia)
With combining vowel: hepatomalacia (hepat/o/malcia

Its critical for medical professionals to understand and use prefixes and suffixes carefully….