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Lesson 27
Lesson 27/Musculoskeletal System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| LCL, MCL, ACL | lateral collateral ligament, medial collateral ligament, anterior cruciate ligament |
| LLE, LUE, RLE, RUE | left lower extremity, left upper extremity, right lower extremity, right upper extremity |
| /alis | relating to |
| /ate | that which is, chemical noun ending |
| /clast | breaker or absorber |
| /clisis | closure, surgical fusion (also /kleisis or /cleisis) |
| /desis | surgical fusion or fixation |
| /emesis, /emetic | vomiting |
| /i | adjective form of /um, plural form of /us |
| /ion | the act of |
| /lucent, lucency | transmits light, a white spot on an x-ray |
| /or (noun) | one that |
| /sity, /city | the state of |
| /ular | relating to |
| /valgus, valgus | bent outward |
| /varus, varus | bent inward |
| /version | turned or a turning |
| acetabul/o | vinegar cup |
| acet/o | vinegar |
| Achilles tendon | heel tendon (tendo calcaneous) |
| acromion | lateral end of the spine of the scapula (shoulder blade) |
| actin/o | ray |
| adhes/o, adher/o | stuck to |
| aerobic, anaerobic | living with oxygen, living without oxygen |
| alveol/o | alveolus, alveoli (as it relates to MS system-portion of bone surrounding and supporting teeth) |
| ambulat/o | walking |
| amphi/ (pr. afee) | both sides, around or about, double |
| ankyl/o | stiff, fused |
| ap/ | ad/combined with p |
| articul/o | jointed |
| audit/o | ear or hearing |
| bone parts | diaphysis, metaphysis, epiphysis, medullary canal, periosteal membrane |
| calc/o | calcium |
| calcane/o | calcaneous (relating to heel bone) |
| campt/o | bent |
| canals | haversion canals, Volkmann's canals (allow blood and nerve supply to bone) |
| cancell/o | lattice (inner part of bone that has a spongy structure filled with marrow) |
| canalicul/o | little canal |
| capit/o | head, capitate |
| capitulum | rounded articular extremity of a bone |
| circum | around |
| clas/o, clasia | destruction, fracture, surgical fracture |
| cleid/o | clavicle |
| coccyge/o | coccyx, coxa |
| concha, conchae | shell-shaped bone |
| condyl/o | knuckle |
| congenital disease types | minimus, imperfecta, tarda, maximus, occulta |
| contracture | Dupuytren's, Volkmann's (loss of muscular balance, loss of motion) |
| crepitation | noise or vibration caused by rubbing bone or irregular cartilage together |
| cribriform plate | bone lying behind nasal cavity through which smell travels to brain |
| crista galli | attachment for the dural membrane lining the skull |
| cruciat/o | crossed |
| cyst | Baker's, bone |
| di/, dipl/o | twice, used instead of bi/ for chemical names |
| diploe | |
| dis/ | reversal or seperation, twice |
| disease | Paget's (or osteitis deformans), Hansen's, Albers-Schonberg, Legg-Calve-Perthes, Osgood-Schlatter |
| dorsi/ | in a dorsal direction |
| e/ | ex/, outward |
| equin/o | horse, walking on toes like a horse |
| fibul/o | fibula |
| flaccid | relaxed, flabby or without tone |
| fontanelle | anterior fontanelle, posterior fontanelle |
| fracture | comminuted, greenstick, compression, Barton's, Colles' |
| gangli/o | knot, ganglion |
| genu | knee |
| glen/o | shoulder, glenoid |
| gout | metabolic disorder characterized by raised blood uric acid which causes severe arthritis (more common in men, usually inherited) |
| hallux | great toe |
| hamart/o | defect in tissue |
| hamat/o | hooked, hamate, or uncinate bone |
| humer/o | humerus |
| hyster/o | uterus |
| idiosyncratic | relating to a mental, behavioral, or physical peculiarity or abnormal reaction to a drug |
| infarct, infarction | an area or dead tissue resulting from sudden insufficiency of blood supply |
| kyph/o | hump |
| lacrim/o | tear |
| lacun/o | lake, lacuna, lacunae |
| lamell/o | little layer, lamella, lamellae |
| lepramat/o | leprosy (Hansen's disease) |
| lig/a | ligament |
| lord/o | concavity, hollow area |
| lun/o | moon or moon-shaped |
| luxat/o | slipped, dislocated |
| malle/o, malleol/o | hammer, little hammer |
| manubri/o | manubrium |
| mast/o | breast or breast-shaped, mastoid process or sinus |
| MCP, metacarpal-phalangeal, MTP, metatarsal- phalangeal | also metacarpophalangeal, metatarsalphalangel |
| meat/o | hole or canal opening |
| menisc/o | meniscus, crescent |
| menopaus/o | menopause |
| myci/o, mysi/o | muscle |
| navicul/o | little boat, navicular |
| nidus | nucleus or central point of origin of a nerve |
| oblique | slantin; deviating from the planes of the body |
| obturator | any structure that obstructs an opening |
| odont/o | tooth or teeth, tooth-shaped |
| olecranon | elbow bone, point of elbow |
| palatine | relating to the palate (the bony and muscular partition between the oral and nasal cavities) |
| pannus | a membrane of granulation tissue covering a normal surface (as in rheumatoid arthritus and other diseases) |
| perone/o | peroneal tendon or nerve in leg |
| phalang/o | phalanx, phalanges |
| pigment/o | colored |
| poikil/o, poiekyl/o | mottled |
| process, processes | styloid, zygomatic, mastoid, palatine |
| pronat/o | turn toward prone postion |
| quadr/i, quadr/u | four or fourths |
| RA | rheutoid arthritis |
| ramus, rami | one of the primary divisions of a nerve or blood vessel or pa part of an irregularly shaped bone |
| rheumat/o | watery discharge, rheumatic condition |
| rickets | bone disease due to vitamin D deficiency that causes bone deformities |
| /lemma | husk, membrane covering muscles and nerves |
| sciatica | pain in lower back and hip radiating down back of thigh and into leg caused by herniated lumbar disc (not by nerve dysfunction as previously thought) |
| scoli/o | curved |
| sella turcica | Turkish saddle |
| sequestr/o | separated |
| sin/o, sinus/o | sinus, a cavity |
| sinus | sphenoid, ethmoid, frontal, maxillary, mastoid |
| snuffbox | (anatomic snuffbox) A hollow seen on the radial aspect of the wrist when the thumb is extended fully |
| supinat/o | turn toward supine position |
| syndrome | Albright's, Marfan, Reiter's, carpal tunnel |
| erg/o | work |
| tal/o | talus, heel |
| taliped, talipes | club-foot |
| tempor/o | timely, temporalis bone |
| ten/o, tendin/o | tendon |
| tophi | (pl. of tophus) A salivary calculus, or tartar |
| trapezi/o | trapezius muscle |
| trochant/o, trochanter/o | runner, part of femur |
| trochle/o | pulley |
| tuber/o | bulge, like a root |
| uln/o | ulna |
| vertebral levels | cervical=C1-C7 or C1-7, thoracic-T1-T12 or T1-12, lumbar=L1-L5 or L1-5 |
| xiphoid | sword-shaped |
| zygomatic/o, zyg/o | junction, zygooma bone |
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