Medical Terminology - Chapter 4 - Musculoskeletal System
pelv/o
pelvis
phalang/o
phalanges
dis-
apart
circum-
around
-ion
action
prosthet/o
addition
anti-
against
scoli/o
crooked
arthr/o
joint
articul/o
joint
lamin/o
lamina (part of vertebra)
kinesi/o
movement
muscul/o
muscle
my/o
muscle
myos/o
muscle
-stenosis
narrowing
cervic/o
neck
non-
not
synovi/o
synovial membrane
tars/o
tarsus
ten/o
tendon
tend/o
tendon
tendin/o
tendon
per-
through
tibi/o
tibia
flex/o
to bend
duct/o
to bring
-desis
to fuse
rotat/o
to revolve
extens/o
to stretch out
-clasia
to surgically break
vers/o
to turn
-tonia
tone
ad-
toward
uln/o
ulna
vertebr/o
vertebra
spondyl/o
vertebrae
-asthenia
weakness
intra-
within
ab-
away from
synov/o
synovial membrane
sub-
under
-scopy
process of visually examining
-genic
producing
pub/o
pubis
-centesis
puncture to withdraw fluid
radi/o
radius; ray (X-ray)
-gram
record
cost/o
rib
burs/o
sac
sacr/o
sacrum
scapul/o
scapula
crani/o
skull
-listhesis
slipping
plant/o
sole of foot
spin/o
spine
stern/o
sternum
ankyl/o
stiff joint
orth/o
straight
-ectomy
surgical removal
-plasty
surgical repair
epi-
above
lord/o
bent backward
inter-
between
oste/o
bone
myel/o
bone marrow, spinal cord
carp/o
carpus
chondr/o
cartilage
pector/o
chest
thorac/o
chest
ped/o
child; foot
clavicul/o
clavicle
coccyg/o
coccyx
-pathy
disease
hyper-
excessive
pseudo-
false
femor/o
femur
fibr/o
fibers
fasci/o
fibrous band
fibul/o
fibula
pod/o
foot
ischi/o
ischium
humer/o
humerus
kyph/o
hump
ili/o
ilium
-blast
immature
medull/o
inner region
-scope
instrument for viewing
-tome
instrument to cut
hypo-
insufficient
lumb/o
loin (low back between ribs and pelvis)
mandibul/o
mandible
poly-
many
maxill/o
maxilla
-iatry
medical treatment
metacarp/o
metacarpus
cortic/o
outer layer
e-
outward
ex-
outward
patell/o
patella
-trophic
pertaining to development
-logic
pertaining to study of
-scopic
pertaining to visually examining
-porosis
porous
-graphy
process of recording
metatars/o
metatarsus
-kinesia
movement