med term ch 3 word parts

-ago

abnormal condition, disease

-osis

abnormal condition, disease

-stenosis

abnormal narrowing

-malacia

abnormal softening

prosth/o, prosthet/o

addition, appendage

dys-

bad, difficult, painful

valg/o

bent or twisted outward

kyph/o

bent, hump

oss/e, oss/i, oste/o, ost/o

bone

-clasis, -clast

break down

-lysis

breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening

burs/o

bursa, sac of fluid near joint

chondr/o, chondr/i

cartilage

ankyl/o

crooked, bent, stiff

lord/o

curve, swayback, bent

scoli/o

curved, bent

-penia

deficiency, lack, too few

plas/l, plas/o

development, growth, formation

per-

excessive, through

talip/o

foot and ankle deformity

-itis

inflammation

ligament/o

ligament

lumb/o

lower back, loin

poly-

many

all/o, all-

other, different from normal, reversal

-algia

pain, suffering, painful condition

-ous

possessing, full of, characterized by

cost/o

rib

aut/o

self

-um

singular noun ending

crani/o

skull

-listhesis

slipping

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

spin/o

spine, backbone

bifid/o

split, divided into two parts

-ation

state or action

-ectomy

surgical removal, cutting out, excision

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

surgical suturing

synovi/o, synov/o

synovial membrane, synovial fluid

-desis

to bind, tie together

lux/o

to slide

-oma

tumor, neoplasm

sub-

under, less, below

spondyl/o, vertebr/o

vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone