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Medical Terminology
Musleces
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| articul/o | Joint |
| Card/o | Heart |
| Electr/o | Electricty |
| Fasci/o | Fibrous band |
| Fibr/o | Fiber |
| Flex/o | To bend |
| Kines/o | movement |
| Lei/o | smooth |
| Muscul/o | muscle |
| my/o | muscle |
| Myocardi/o | heart muscle |
| neur/o | nerve |
| Orth/o | straight, normal |
| Ped/o | child, foot |
| Plant/o | sole of the foot |
| radi/o | X-rays |
| Rhabd/o | rod-shaped |
| Sarc/o | flesh, connective tissue |
| Son/o | sound |
| tax/o | coordination, order |
| ten/o | tendon |
| tens/o | stretched |
| ton/o | tone, tension |
| vers/o | turn, turning |
| a- | not without |
| ab- | away, away from |
| ad- | toward |
| bi | two, both |
| brady- | slow |
| circum- | around |
| dorsi- | back |
| dys- | painful |
| e-, ex- | out, away from |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | above normal, excessive |
| hypo- | below normal |
| in- | in, into, not |
| par- | near, beside |
| quardri- | four |
| tachy- | fast |
| tri- | three |
| -ac, -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -ceps | heads |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| -esthesia | sensation |
| -gram | record |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -ia | condition |
| -ion | condition |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdown |
| -malacia | softening |
| -oma | tumor |
| -paresis | weakness |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plegic | pertaining to paralysis |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument used to view |
| -scopy | visual examination using a scope |
| -tomy | process of cutting |
| -tonia | tone, tension |
| -trophy | condition of growth or development |