Chapter 3 Flashcards by Haley Adkins

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Foramen

A

hole in a bone

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Fossa

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depression in a bone

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Aperture

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opening

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Canal

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tunnel

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Fissure

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crack

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Fovea

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small pit

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Meatus

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passage/opening

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Sinus

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space or cavity

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Sulcus

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groove

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-tomy

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cutting into

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-stomy

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permanent new opening

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-centesis

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surgical puncture

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-desis

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binding together

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-pexy

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surgical fix

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-plasty

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surgical repair

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-ectomy

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surgical removal

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my/o

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muscle

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Fibr/o

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fibrous tissue

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Fibros/o

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fibrous tissue

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define fascia

A

sheet of fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports, and separates muscle

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Fasci/o

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fascia

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Fasc/i

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fascia

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-kinesis

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movement

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Anti-

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against

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Agon

struggle

Syn

together

erg

work

Kyph/o

hump of the spine

Scoli/o

crooked or curved spine

Troph/o

development

Lord/o

bent forward spine

-asthenia

weakness

-malacia

softening

-sclerosis

hardening

-schisis

split/fissure

-desis

surgical fixation/fusion

-osis

condition of

-algia

pain

Oste/o

bone

Physis

to grow

Endo/

within or inside the

Chondr/o

cartilage

mes/o

middle

Legament/o

ligament

Carni/o

toward the head

Vertebr/o

vertebra

Cervic/o

neck

Sacr/o

sacrum

Tubercle

little knot or swelling

Ad/

toward

Inter/

between

medi/o

middle

-clast

break

-poiesis

formation

-luxation

dislocation or displacement of a bone from its joint

-gram

picture or record

Hemat/o

blood

Dia/

through, between, apart

meta/

beyond

brachy/

short

onycho/o

claw or nail

Tendin/o

tendon

process

projection

Thorac/o

chest

Coccygel/o

tail bone

my/o

muscle

kinesi/o

movement

Infra/

below or beneth

Supra/

above, increased

Superi/o

uppermost

-blast

immature

-cephalic

pertaining to the head

-ectomy

surgical removal

-pathy

disease

-plasia

formation, growth, development

Ep/i

upon, above, on, upper

Peri

around/surrounding

Arthr/o

joint

Dolich/o

long

Burs/o

fibrous sac that acts as a cushion to ease movement in areas of friction

Synovi/o

lubricant to make joint movement smooth

Spondyl/o

vertebra

Disc/o

Disc (intervertebral)

Lumb/o

lumbar

met/a

beyond, change, behind, after

Ab/

away from

epi/

upon, above, on, upper

Inferi/o

below

Electr/o

electricity

-cyte

cell

-oma

tumor

-graphy

process of recording