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muscloskeletal word
A&P
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brachi/o | arm |
| carp/o | carpus (wrist bone) |
| cephal/o | head |
| cervic/o | neck |
| cost/o | ribs |
| crani/o | cranium (skull) |
| dactyl/o | digit (a finger, a toe) |
| humer/o | humerus |
| metacarp/o | metacarpus (bones of the hand) |
| phalang/o | phalanges (bones of fingers and toes) |
| rachi/orach/o | spine |
| spondyl/o vertebr/o | vertebrae (backbone) |
| stern/o | sternum (breastbone) |
| thorac/o | chest |
| scapul/o | scapula |
| olecran/o | olecranun, elbow |
| radi/o | raduis |
| clavicul/o | clavicle |
| uln/o | ulna |
| maxill/o | maxilla |
| mandibul/o | mandible |
| calcane/o | calcaneum (heel bone) |
| femor/o | femur (thigh bone) |
| fibul/o | finbula (smaller, outer bone of lower leg) |
| ili/o | ilium (lateral flaring portion of hip) |
| ischi/o | ischium (lower portion of hip bone) |
| lumb/o | loins |
| patell/o | petella (kneecappatella (kneecap) |
| pelv/l | pelvis |
| pub/o | pubis ( part hip bone) |
| tibi/o | tibia (larger, inner bon of lower leg |
| acromi/o | acromion (projection of scapula) |
| ankyl/o | stiffness, bent, crooked |
| arthr/oarticul/o | joint |
| condylo | condyle (rounded protuberance ar end of bone forming an articulation) |
| lamin/o | lamina (part of the vertebral arch) |
| myel/o | bone marrow, spinal cord |
| orth/o | straight |
| oste/o | bone |
| synovi/o | synovial membrane, synovia |
| fibros/o | fibrous connective tissue |
| ligiment/osyndesm/o | ligiment |
| calc/o | calcium |
| kyph/o | humpback |
| lord/o | swayback |
| scoli/o | crooked, bent |
| lumb/o | lowerback, loins |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| leiomy/o | smooth muscle (viceral) |
| my/omyos/o | muscle |
| rrhabd/o | rod-shaped (striated) |
| rhabdomy/o | rod-shaped (striated) muscle |
| ten/otend/otendin/o | tendon |
| -blast | embryonic cell |
| -clasis | break, fracture, refracture |
| -clast | break, destroy |
| -desis | binding or fixation (f a bone or joint) |
| -malacia | softening |
| -physis | growth |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -porosis | porous |
| -schisis | a splitting |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -stenia | strength |
| -trophy | nourishment, development |
| ped/ipod/o | foot |