unit 5 - word parts Flashcards
ankyl/o
bent, crooked, stiff
arthr/o
joint
brach/i
arm
burs/o
fluid filled sac near a joint
calcane/o
heel
carp/o
wrist
-cele
hernia, swelling tumor
cervic/o
neck
chondr/o
cartilage
-clasia
breaking, crushing
coccyx
tailbone
cost/o
rib
crani/o
head, skull
dactyl/o
finger
dys-
bad, painful, difficult
-ectomy
removal
fasci/o
fascia
femor/o
femur
kines-
kinesi/o
movement, motion
lumb/o
lumbar
metacarp/o
bones of the hand
my/o
myos/o
muscul/o
muscle
myel/o
bone marrow
ost-
oste/o
bone
-paresis
slight paralysis, partial
patell/o
patella, kneecap
-plegia
paralysis
-physis
growth
radi/o
radius bone or radiation
spondyl/o
vertebra
stern/o
sternum, breastbone
tars/o
ankle
tax/o
arrangement, order, coordination
thora-
thorac/o
chest
tibi/o
tibia
ten/o
tend/o
tendin/o
tendon
ton/o
tone, tension, stretching
-trophy
nourishment
vertebr/o
backbone