Cont Ch 15 Flashcards
Styloid process
Pole like process extending downward from temporal bone on each side or the skull
Calc/o
Calcium
Lamin/o
Lamina
Lord/o
Curve
Lumb/o
Lower back
OSTE/o
Bone
Scoli/o
Crooked
Spondyl/o
Vertebra
-physis
To grow
-tome
Instrument to cut
-malacia
Softening
-lithesis
Slipping
-cast
To break
Ewing sarcoma
Malignant bone tumor
Osteogenic sarcoma
Malignant tumor arising from bone
Club foot
Talipes (congenital abnormality of hind foot)
Suture joints
Immovable (skull)
Ankyl/o
Stiff
Arthr/o
Joint
Articul/o
Joint
Chondr/o
Cartilage
Rhemat/o
Watery flow
-desks
To bind
-stenosis
Narrowing
Ganglion
A fluid filled cyst arising from the joint capsule or tendon in wrist
Lyme disease
Recurrent arthritis
My/o
Muscle
Myos/o
Muscle
Plant/o
Sole of foot
-astbenia
Lack of strength
Ab-
Away
Ad-
Toward
Sinus
Hollow air cavity within a bone