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Musculoskeletal
Term | Definition |
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Fasci/o | band, fascia (fibrous membrane supporting and separating muscles) |
Fibr/o | Fiber or fibrous tissue |
Leiomy/o | Smooth muscle (visceral) |
lumb/o | Loins (Lower back) |
muscul/o | Muscle |
My/o | Muscle |
ten/o | tendon |
tend/o | tendon |
tendin/o | tendon |
-algia | pain |
-asthenia | weakness, debility |
-pathy | Disease |
-plegia | paralysis |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-sarcoma | Maligant tomor of connestive tissue |
-tomy | Incision |
Flexion | Decreases the angle of a joint |
Extention | Increases the angle of a joint |
Adduction | Moves closer to the midline |
Abduction | Moves aitsway from the midline |
Rotation | Moves a bone around its axis |
Pronation | Turns the palm down |
Supination | Turns the palm up |
Eversion | Moves the sole of the foot inwards |
Inversion | Moves the sole of the foot outwards |
dorsiflexion | elevates the foot |
Plantar flexion | Lowers the food |
Carp/o | Carpus (wrist bones) |
Cervic/o | Neck |
cost/o | ribs |
Crani/o | Cranium |
Humer/o | Humerus (upper arm bone) |
Metacarp/o | Metacarpus (hand bones) |
Phalang/o | Phalanges (bones of the fingers and toes) |
Spondyl/o | Vertrbra |
Vertebr/o | Vertrbra |
Stern/o | Sternum (breastbone) |
Calcane/o | Calcaneum (Heel bone) |
Femor/o | Femur (thigh bone) |
Fibul/o | Fibula ( Smaller outer bone of the lower leg) |
Pelv/i | Pelvis |
Pelv/o | Pelvis |
Radi/o | Radiation, x-rays, radius (Lower arm bone on the thumb side) |
tibi/o | Tibia (larger bone of the lower leg) |
Ankyl/o | Stiffness, bent, crooked |
Arthr/o | Joint |
Chondr/o | Cartilage |
Lamin/o | Lamina (part of the vertebral arch) |
Myel/o | Bone marrow, spinal cord |
orth/o | Straight |
oste/o | Bone |
-Clast | To break, surgical fracture |
-cyte | cell |
-desis | binding, fixation (of a bone or joint) |
-malacia | Softening |
-physis | growth |
-porosis | porous |