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Skeletal System
Quick Study Skeletal System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Formation of Bones | Ossification |
| Types of Bones | long, short, flat, irregular |
| Bone Tissue | Compact, spongy (cancalleous) |
| Bone Markings | depressions, opening, projections |
| Axial Skeleton | Skull, thoracic cage, vertebral column |
| Appendicular Skeleton | Upper extremities, lower extremities, pectoral girdle, pelvic girdle |
| Structural Classification of Joints/Articulations | Fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial |
| Functional Classification of Joints/Articulations | Synarthroses, amphiarthroses, diarthroses |
| anakyl/o | stiffed, crooked, bent |
| arthr/o | joint |
| articul/o | joint |
| brachi/o | arm |
| burs/o | bursa |
| calcane/o | heel |
| carp/o | wrist |
| centr/o | center |
| cephal/o | head |
| cervic/o | neck, cervix |
| chir/o, cheir/o | hand |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| cleid/o | clavicle |
| coccyg/o | cocyx |
| cost/o | rib |
| cox/o | hip |
| crani/o | skull |
| cubit/o | elbow, forearm |
| dactyl/o | digit (finger, toe) |
| eury- | wide, broad |
| faci/o | face |
| femor/o | femur |
| fibul/o | fibula |
| geni/o | chin |
| gnath/o | jaw |
| gnos/o | knowledge |
| goni/o | angle |
| gyr/o | circle, spiral |
| holo- | entire, complete |
| humer/o | humerus |
| hypsi- | high |
| ili/o | illium |
| ischi/o | ischium |
| ithy- | erect, straight |
| kyph/o | humpback |
| lamin/o | lamina |
| lip/o | fat |
| -listhesis | slipping |
| lord/o | curvature, bending |
| lox/o | oblique, slanting |
| lumb/o | loin |
| maxill/o | maxillia |
| mega-,megalo- | large |
| -magaly | enlargement |
| mel/o | limb, limbs |
| om/o | shoulder |
| opisth/o | backward, behind |
| oset/o | bone |
| pan- | all |
| patell/o | patella |
| ped/o | foot, child |
| pelv/i | pelvis |
| perone/o | fibula |
| petr/o | stone, petrous region of temporal bone |
| phalag/o | phalanges |
| -physis | growth, growing |
| pod/o | foot |
| -porosis | porous, decease in density |
| pub/o | pubis |
| rachi/o | spine |
| sacr/o | sacrum |
| scapul/o | scapula |
| scoli/o | crooked, twisted |
| skelet/o | skeleton |
| spin/o | spinal cord, spine |
| spondyl/o | vertebrae |
| stern/o | sternum |
| synov.o | synovial, synovial membrane |
| tal/o | talus |
| tars/o | tarsals |
| tibi/o | tibia |
| vertebr/o | vertebra |
| xiph/o | sword-shaped xiphoid |