Medical Terminology - General Bones Combining Forms (Ch 15)
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Calc/o, calci/o
Calcium
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Kyph/o
Humpback, hunchback (posterior curvature in the thoracic region)
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Lamin/o
Lamina (part of the vertebral arch)
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Lord/o
Curve, swayback (anterior curvature in the lumbar region)
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Lumb/o
Loins, lower back
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Myel/o
Bone marrow
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Orth/o
Straight
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Oste/o
Bone
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Scoli/o
Crooked, bent (lateral curvature)
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Spondyl/o
Vertebra (used to make words about conditions of the structure)
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Vertebr/o
Vertebra (used to describe the structure itself)
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-blast
Embryonic or immature cell
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-clast
To break
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-listhesis
Slipping
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-malacia
Softening
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-physis
To grow
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-porosis
Pore, passage
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-tome
Instrument to cut
