click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Module 6
Medical Terminology Module 6 Fall Semester 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip/o- | fat |
| ambul/o- | to walk |
| ankyl/o- | fuse or bind |
| arachino- | spider |
| arthr/o- | joint |
| articul/o- | jointed |
| -asthenia | weakness |
| avuls/i- | to tear |
| brach/i- | arm |
| brachy- | short |
| burs/o- | sac, wine sac, pouch |
| calcin/o- | calcium |
| calx- | heel or lime |
| caput | head |
| carcin/o- | crab-like |
| carp/o- | wrist |
| celi/o- | abdomen or belly |
| cerv/i- | neck |
| chondr/o- | cartilage |
| clavicul/o- | collarbone |
| cleido- | clavicle or collarbone |
| clino- | bent |
| coccyg/o- | tailbone |
| condylo- | knuckle |
| crani/o- | skull |
| cruc/i- | cross or cross-like |
| cub/o- | cube or cube-shaped |
| cubit/o- | elbow |
| dactylo- | digits(fingers and toes) |
| delta | fan- shaped or triangular |
| digit- | finger or toe |
| facet/o- | face |
| fasc/i- | band |
| femor/o- | thigh |
| fibrill/o- | to quiver |
| fibro- | fiber |
| fibul/o- | to clasp |
| fil- | thread |
| for- | before |
| fract/o- | to break |
| genu- | knee |
| hallux | great or big toe |
| humer/o- | arm(upper) |
| -icle | small or tiny |
| infra- | under or below |
| ischi/o- | hip joint or hip |
| kine- | movement or motion |
| kyph/o- | hunchback |
| lamin/o- | thin, flat plate, or thin layer |
| lei/o- | smooth |
| levat/o- | lift up |
| liga- | to bind |
| -listhesis | slippage |
| lord/o- | swayback or to bend |
| lumb/o- | loin |
| luna- | crescent-shaped or moon |
| lux- | to dislocate |
| malac/o- | soft or softening |
| mall/e/olus | little hammer |
| man/o- | hand |
| mand/i- | chew or chewer |
| maxill/o- | upper jaw |
| menisc/o- | crescent |
| -motor | movement or motion |
| my/o- | muscle |
| navicul/o- | boat or boat-shaped |
| oblique | sidelong or slanted |
| occult/o- | hidden |
| -oma | tumor or swelling |
| omo- | shoulder |
| oste/o- | bone |
| pariet/o- | wall or partition |
| patell/o- | little dish or kneecap |
| pect/o- | chest |
| ped- | foot or feet |
| pelvi/o- | base, basin, pelvis |
| periton/e- | that which hold the lower viscera |
| peroneo- | pin or concerning the lower outside leg bone |
| pes | foot |
| phalang/o- | close-knit row(fingers and toes) |
| phoc/o- | seal |
| phrag/o- | wall or partition |
| -physis | growth or nature of |
| pollex- | thumb |
| por/o- | cavity or passage(porous) |
| psoas | loin or lumbar |
| pulp/o- | solid flesh |
| rhachi/o- | jointed vertebrae, spine, spinal column |
| rheumat/o- | discharge or flow through |
| rhomb/o- | parallelogram or diamond-shaped |
| ricketts/ia | Bacteria discovered by Howard Ricketts/refers to |
| rotat/o- | to turn or swing around |
| sacr/o- | saucer or sacred bone |
| sarc/o- | fleshy |
| scapul/o- | shoulder blade |
| scoli/o- | crooked or twisted |
| skelet/o- | dried up or to attach |
| sole- | the sole of the foot |
| spad/i- | to tear |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction |
| spin/o- | thorn or thorny |
| spondyl/o- | vertebra |
| sprain | to wring out or press out |
| stern/o- | chest, sternum, or breastbone |
| strain | to draw tight |
| sur/a- | on calf of leg |
| sym- | together |
| tal/o- | ankle |
| tars/o- | broad flat surface |
| -taxia | muscle coordination |
| ten/o- | tendon |
| tens/o- | to stretch or stretches |
| terat/o- | monster |
| teres | round |
| tetan/o- | spasm or spasms |
| then/o- | palm of hand or sole of foot |
| thorac/o- | chest |
| tibia- | shinbone |
| trache/o- | rough |
| uln/a- | elbow |
| cag/o- | wanderer(the longest cranial nerve) |
| valg/u- | inward |
| var/u- | outward |
| -version | turn or to turn |
| vertebra/o- | jointed |