Ch 10 Flashcards
adduction
move closer to mid-line
abduction
move away from midline
flexion
decrease angle of joint
extension
increase angle of joint
rotation
moves bone around its own axis
pronation
turns palm downward
supination
turn palm upwards
inversion
moves sole of foot inward
eversion
moves the sole of the foot outward
dorsiflexion
elevates the foot
plantar flexion
lowers the foot (points the toes)
leimoy/o
smooth
my/o
muscle
rhabd/o
rod shaped (striated) muscle
rhabdomy/o
rod shaped (striated) muscle
pod/o
foot
pub/o
pubis
ankyl/o
stiffness, bent, crooked
fasci/o
band, fascia (fibrous membrane supporting and separating muscles)
kyph/o
hump back
lamin/o
lamina
lord/o
curve, swayback
orth/o
straight
oste/o
bone
scoli/o
crooked, bent
-asthenia
weekness, debility
-clasia
to break, surgical fracture
-clast
to break, surgical fracture
-desis
binding fixation (of a bone or joint)
-porosis
porous
-sarcoma
malignant tumour of connective tissue
a-
without, not
dys-
bad, painful, difficult
syn-
union, together, joined