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Medical Terminology
Chapter 4 Musculoskeletal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flexion | When a joint bends |
| extension | when a joint straightens |
| Abduction | the widening of the joint to move parts away from the body |
| Adduction | the joint narrows to bring parts back to the body. |
| tendon (ten/o, tend/o) | Connective tissue that connects muscle to bone |
| Ligaments | Hold bone to bone |
| Cartilage (chondr/o) | Surrounds the bone at the joints and allows smooth movement among them. |
| Bursa (burs/o) | sacs of fluid that lie under tendons |
| Cranio | head, skull |
| phalanges | the bones of the fingers and toes |
| radius and ulna | the two bones of the forearm |
| 4 sections of the spine | the neck (cervical); chest/upper back (thoracic); lower back (lumbar and sacral ) |
| Vertebrae | small bones that line the spine and protect your spinal cord |
| Osteocytes | bone cells |
| epiphysis | the end of the bone |
| epiphyseal plate | aka Growth Plate: Lies in the metaphysis (the area between the end of the bone and the long shaft of the bone). |
| Diaphysis | the long shaft portion of a bone |
| -physis | Growth |
| oste/o | bone |
| osteopathy | bone disease |
| brachi/o | arm |
| dactyl/o | finger or toe |
| cervic/o | neck |
| spondyl | vertebra |
| cost/o | rib |
| lumbar | of, relating to, or constituting the loins or the vertebrae between the thoracic vertebrae and sacrum |
| tibi/o | tibia (shinbone) |
| tars/o | ankle |
| (arthr/o) | joint |
| fascia | fibrous connective tissue binding muscles together |
| (muscul/o, my/o, myos/o) | muscle |
| myopathy | a disorder (disease) of the muscle tissue or muscles |
| paresis | slight or partial paralysis |
| plegia | complete paralysis |
| tone, tension (ton/o) | the built -in strength of your muscles |
| (kinesi/o) | movement, motion |
| kinesiology | the study of the principles of mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement |
| hyperkinesia | abnormally increased and sometimes uncontrollable activity or muscular movements |
| tax/o | arrangement, order, coordination |
| ataxia | an inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements that is symptomatic of some central nervous system disorders and injuries and not due to muscle weakness |
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