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35 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Anterior |
Toward the front |
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Posterior |
Situated at the back |
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Cephalic |
Toward the head |
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Caudal |
Toward the tail |
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Supine/prone |
Lying-down |
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Eversion |
Turned inside-out |
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Extension |
Straightening out a limb |
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Oblique |
Slanting or inclined |
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Medial |
Middle of the body |
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Adjacent |
Part of the body attached to another |
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Fowler's |
Head and knees elevated |
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Flexion |
Bending; being bent |
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Lithotomy |
Back position with legs bent and thighs abducted |
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Peripheral |
Outside; outward |
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Quadrant |
One of four parts |
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Recumbent |
Lying down |
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Sims' |
Lying on left side and chest, right knee and thigh up, left arm to back |
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Sinistro |
To the left, left side |
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Dextro |
Right side; to the right |
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Superior |
On top, above |
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Inferior |
Bottom, below |
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Supine |
Lying face up |
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Prone |
Lying face down |
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Trendelenburg's |
Lying with head lower than legs |
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Trans |
Through, across, beyond |
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Apothecaries |
System for weighing and measuring drugs, metal and stones |
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Avoirdupois |
English system of weights and measures for all but drugs |
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Metric |
System of measures based on the meter and based on 10 |
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Tera |
Monster |
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Micro |
Small |
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Temperature |
Degree of hot or cold based on a specific scale |
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Celsius |
Temp scale where h20 boils at 100 and freezes at 0 |
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Fahrenheit |
Temp scale where h20 boils at 212 and freezes at 32 degrees |
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Conversion |
Change from one scale or system to another |
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Equivalent |
Conversions that are equal to each other |
