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Medical Terminology....?
Does anyone know a site that will translate words into medical terms..... i have looked EVERYWHERE!! I just need to know what the medical term is for "away from her body" ......please help!
8 Answers
- nursesr4evrLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
abduction as in to move the arm or other part away from the body.
Toward the body is adduction
- d.a.f.f.y.Lv 51 decade ago
MedicineNet.com - this is a perfect site for medical terminology.
Good Luck!
Abduction - to move away from the body
- FluffyLv 41 decade ago
Hi there.
I don't believe there is an actual term for that..
but I will keep looking for you.
You might want to try and get hold of a reverse MEDICAL dictionary. I tried a regular reverse dictionary but that was no good.
I can only find medical BOOKS but there might one online somewhere.
I think they sometimes go by the name reversicon.
Here are the names of 3 books I found. Maybe a library might have them.
Inverted Medical Dictionary
http://library.kumc.edu/omrs/dictionary/dictmed.ht...
Medical Word Finder: A Reverse Medical Dictionary
http://library.kumc.edu/omrs/dictionary/dictmed.ht...
Reversicon: A Medical Word Finder
http://library.kumc.edu/omrs/dictionary/dictmed.ht...
PS- If it's really important to know you might consider stopping by/phoning a local hospital or medical place and seeing if someone can help you. Going in would be better than phoning up and you could look for somebody who doesn't look busy. You could say it's for a school/college paper or something like that. Maybe it is? lol
Source(s): Using a Reversicon Although dictionaries usually list the words to be defined in alphabetical order, a reverse dictionary or reversicon lists definitions or descriptions of concepts in alphabetical order and then provides words fitting those definitions. For example, suppose you want to find a word meaning “hatred of marriage,” you might find the word (”misogamy”) in the reverse dictionary under “marriage, hatred of.” Reverse dictionaries are particularly useful when dealing with unusual words for common phenomena, such as “misogamy.” Consider another example. Although we are all quite familiar with the metal or plastic tube fixed around each end of a shoelace, we may not know the word “aglet,” which describes that item. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- 1 decade ago
Ab from; away from
distal
<anatomy> Remote, farther from any point of reference, opposed to proximal.
<dentistry> Used to designate a position on the dental arch farther from the median line of the jaw.
Origin: L. Distans = distant
Source(s): http://www.mtworld.com/tools_resources/prefixes.ph... http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php - ?Lv 45 years ago
Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! It takes brains to come with those answers...think about it!!!.
