Medical Terminology / Unit 4 MedTerm 0200 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Inferior: Toward the Feet
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The idea
Inferior means toward the feet or the lower part of a structure, and its combining form is infer slash o.
In practice
The stomach is inferior to the diaphragm.
Where people slip
Superior and inferior are relative. A structure is superior only to something named.
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