Medical Terms

The medical terms contain to the body parts and how close they are together on your body. If they are closer together they are considered proximal and the farther they are from one another they are distal. You can remember distal because it sounds close to distance. An example of distal would be your foot to your knee because they aren't closely connected but somehow they are connected. One example of proximal would be your wrist to your hand because they are very close together. When you think of how your food your food is processed to cleanse your body after all the food that you eat, you have to think about metabolism. Most people know what this word means because it has to do with everyday life. The word superficial remind me of something being fake or not real, but for this certain subject it just means "on the surface" so it is visible to us. The word similarly related to this would be deep meaning that you can't see it. So superficial and deep aren't exactly what they sound like, but you just have to remember to flip the definitions to get it right. There are two parts of the body you have to remember and one is superior and inferior. Superior is the top half of your body such as your head and everything up there. The inferior part of your body would be the lower part of your body such as your feet. These words seem harder to remember but if you can just look at the words closely such as distal meaning close to distance and think of superficial as being the opposite of what it means to us now, you can keep track of what all these definitions.