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Module 6

Medical Terminology Module 6 Fall Semester 2025

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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
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