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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is calcaneum? | heal bone |
| what are dactals? | fingers or toes |
| myel/o | bone marrow |
| kyph/o | humpback |
| ankel/o | stiffness |
| fibr/o | fiber |
| -syn | union |
| -porosis | porous |
| E.M.G | electromyography |
| what is sublaxation? | partial or incomplete dislocation |
| O.R.I.F. | open reduction internal fracture |
| what is claudication? | lameness, limping |
| A.K. | above the knee |
| what is exacerbation? | increase in severity of a disease or any of its symptoms |
| T.H.A. | total hip arthroplasty |
| what is a prothesis? | replacement by an artificial part |
| what does a sprain involve? | a ligament |
| what does a strain involve? | a muscle |
| C1 | cervical vertebrae |
| D.J.D. | degenerative joint disease |
| ischi/o | ishium lower part of the hip bone |
| metacarp/o | hand bone |
| phalang/o | bones of the fingers or toes |
| spondyl/o | verterbrae |
| C.A. | calcium |
| -dys | painful/bad |
| -desis | binding of a bone or joint |
| -clasia | surgical fracture |
| -physis | growth |
| -blast | embryonic cell |
| hypotonia | loss of muscular tone |
| D.E.X.A. | dual energy x-ray absorptiometry |
| B.E. | barium enema |
| I.V. | intravenous |
| R.O.M. | range of motion |
| M.S. | musculoskeletal |
| I.M. | intramuscular |
| M.G. | myathenia gravis |
| M.R.I. | magnetic resonance imaging |
| T.R.A.M. | transverse rectus abdominis muscle |
| T.K.R. | total knee replacement |
| Fx | fracture |
| oste/o | bone |
| lamin/o | lamina |
| rhabd/o | rod shaped |
| lord/o | curve |
| cephl/o | head |
| -malacia | softening |
| anklyosis | results in immobility and stiffness of a joint from the result of trauma, surgery, or a disease |
| spondylosis | degeneration of verterbrae |
| sequestrum | seperation of dead bone |