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VET 114 Week 2
Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ankyl/o | Stiff |
| Arthr/o | Joint |
| my/o | Muscle |
| articul/o | Joint |
| Burs/o | Bursa |
| Myel/o | Bone Marrow, Spinal cord |
| Necr/o | Death |
| olecran/o | Olecranon |
| Orth/o | Bone |
| Chondr/o | Cartilage |
| Pariet/o | Side |
| Patell/o | Patella |
| Dactyl/o | Digits |
| Erg/o | Work |
| Phalang/o | Phalanges, digits |
| rhabdomy/o | Striated (skeletal) muscle |
| rheumat/o | Watery flow |
| sarc/o | (flesh), connective tissue |
| ili/o | ilium |
| Kinesi/o | Movement |
| lacrim/o | tear duct, tear |
| Ten/o | Tendon |
| leiomy/o | Smooth (visceral) muscle |
| Ton/o | Tension |
| Hyper- | above; excessive |
| Hypo- | deficient; below; under; less than normal |
| Ab- | away from |
| Ad- | Toward |
| Meta- | Change, beyond |
| Pan- | All |
| Anti- | Against |
| Peri- | Around, Surrounding |
| Dys- | Bad, abnormal, Painful |
| Dia- | Through, complete |
| Poly- | Many, Much |
| Sub- | Under, below |
| Supra- | Above, Upper |
| Syn- | Together, With |
| Epi- | Above, Upon, On |
| -Osis | Abnormal condition |
| -Blast | Immature, embryonic |
| -clast | To Break |
| -Pexy | surgical fixation; to put in place |
| -Physis | To Grow |
| -desis | surgical fixation; to bind; tie together |
| -cyte | Cell |
| -Plasty | Surgical repair |
| -Poiesis | Formation |
| -emia | Blood Condition |
| -rrhaphy | Suture |
| -fication | Process of Making |
| -sclerosis | Hardening |
| -genesis | Producing, Forming |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -tome | Instrument to cut |
| -tomy | process of cutting; incision |
| -trophy | development; nourishment |
| -malacia | Softening |
| -metry | Measurement |
| ACL | Anterior Cruciate Ligament |
| PROM | Passive Range of Motion |
| EMG | Electromyogram |