Chapter 5 - Muscles, Bones, and Joints - Parts Flashcards
-centesis
surgical puncture
-ist
specialist
-itis
inflammation
-malacia
softening
-meter
instrument used to measure
-metry
process of measuring
-oid
resembling, like
-osis
condition
-pathy
disease
-plasia
development
-plasty
surgical repair
-plegia
paralysis
-scope
instrument for viewing, looking
-scopy
process of examination
-taxia
condition of muscular coordination or muscular action
a-, an-
without
dys-
difficult, painful
peri-
around
de-
down from; less than
epi-
upon
infra-
below
inter-
between
meta-
beyond
supra-
above, over, on the top side
my/o
muscle
oste/o
bone
pelv/i, pelv/o
pelvic
thorac/o
thorax
acromi/o
acromion process
arthr/o
joint
calacane/o
heel bone
carp/o
carpal bone (wrist)
cervic/o
cervical neck
chondr/o
cartilage
clavicul/o, cleid/o
clavicle
coccygl/o
coccyx
condyl/o
condyle
cost/o
rib
crani/o
skull
dent/o
tooth
disk/o
disk
fibul/o
fibula
femor/o
femur
humer/o
humerus
ili/o
ilium
ischi/o
ishium
kinesi/o
movement
kyph/o
humpback
lamin/o
lamina
lord/o
swayback
lumb/o
lumbar spine or region
malac/o
softening
mandili/o
mandible
maxill/o
maxilla
muscul/o
muslce
odont/o
teeth
orth/o
straight
patell/o
patella
phalang/o
phalanges
por/o
porous
pub/o
pubis
radi/o
radius
rheumat/o
rheumatism
sacr/o
sacrum
scapul/o
scapula
scoli/o
crooked
skelet/o
skeleton
spondyl/o
spine, vertebra
stern/o
sternum
tars/o
tarsals
ten/o, tendon/o, tendin/o
tendon
tibi/o
tibia
uln/o
ulna
xiph/o
xiphoid process