Muscle Flashcards
What is the combining form of “point of the shoulder blade”
Acromi/o
What is the combining word for “bent or stiff”
Ankyl/o
What are the combining word for joint
Arthr/o
Articul/o
What is the combining word for armpit
Axill/o
What is the combining word for arm
Brachi/o
What is the combining word for a sac of fluid near a joint (bursa)
Burs/o
What is the combining word for heel bone
Calcane/o
What is the combining word for carupus or joint of front limbs between the radius or ulnar and metacarpals
Carp/o
What is the combining word for cartilage?
Chondr/o
What is the combining word for head
Cephal/o
What is the combining word for neck or neckline
Cervic/o
What is the combining word for rib
Cost/o
What is the combining word for knucle or knob
Condyl/o
What is the combining word for skull
Crani/o
What is the combining word for digits
Dactyl/o
What is the combining word for long or narrow
Dolich/o
What is the combining word for thigh bone
Femor/o
What is the combining word for small bone of distal hindlimb
Fibul/o
What is the combining word for long bone of the proximal forelimb
Humer/o
What’s the combining word for part of the pelvis (illium)
Ili/o
What is the combining word for part of the pelvis (ischium)
Ischi/o
What is the combining word for one part of the dorsal portion of the vertebrea (lamina)
Lamin/o
What is the combining word for lower back, or liom
Lumb/o
What is the combining word for beyond the carpus
Metacarp/o
What is the combining word for muscle
My/o
What is the combining word for spinal cord or bone marrow “white substance”
Myel/o
What is the combining word for straight, normal or correct
Orth/o
What is the combining word for bone
Oste/o
What is the combining word for patella
Patell/o
What are the combining word for foot
Ped/o
Pod/o
What is the combining word for hip bone or pelvis
Pelv/o
What is the combining word for phalange
Phalang/o
What is the combining word for part of the hip bone (pubis)
Pub/o
What is the combining form of vertebra
Spondyl/o
What is the combining word for tendon, strain or to extend
Ten/o
Tend/o
What is the combining word for chest
Thorac/o
What is the combining word for tibia
Tibi/o
What is the combining word for backbone
Vertebr/o7
What does doliocephalic mean
Narrow, long heads.
What does luxation mean
Dislocation or displacement of a bone from its joint
What is osteoporosis
Abnormal condition of marked loss of bone density and increase in bone porosity
What is crepitation
Cracking sensation thay is felt and heard when broken bones move together. Aka crepitus
What’s the difference between an open and closed reduction
Open reduction is setting (reduce) of the broken bone by opening the skin
Closed reduction is reducing without cutting the skin open
What is brachycephalic
Short, wide heads
