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Unit 3
Skeletal System
Term | Definition |
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ankyl/o | crooked, bent, stiff |
arthr/o | joint |
chondr/o | cartilage |
cost/o | rib |
crani/o | skull |
-desis | surgical fixation of bone or joint, to bund, tie together |
kyph/o | bent, hump |
lord/o | curve, swayback ebnt |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening |
myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow |
oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o | bone |
-poietic | productive, formative |
scoli/o | curved, bent |
spondyl/o | vertebrae, vertebral column, back bone |
-um | singular noun ending |