chapter fourteen - word parts

aponeur/o

aponeurosis

arthr/o

joint

burs/o

bursa (cavity)

chondr/o

cartilage

disk/o

intervertebral disk

menisc/o

meniscus (crescent)

synovi/o

synovia, synovial membrane

ten/o

tendon

tend/o

tendon

tendin/o

tendon

ankyl/o

crooked, stiff, bend

kinesi/o

movement, motion

kyph/o

hump

lamin/o

lamina (thin, flat plate or layer)

lord/o

bent forward

myel/o

bone marrow

my/o

muscle

myos/o

muscle

oste/o

bone

petr/o

stone

scoli/o

crooked, curved

inter-

between

supra-

above

sym-

together, joined

syn-

together, joined

-asthenia

weakness

-clasia

break

-clasis

break

-clast

break

-desis

surgical fixation, fusion

-physis

growth

-schisis

split, fissure

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

softening

-algia

pain

-osis

abnormal condition

-oma

tumor

fibr/o

fibrous tissue

-penia

abnormal reduction in number

-sarcoma

malignant tumor

poly-

many

rhabd/o

striated muscle

-lysis

dissolution

-plasty

surgical repair

-tomy

incision

-ectomy

excision

-rrhaphy

suture

a-

without

-trophy

development

brady-

slow

-al -ic -ary

pertaining to

hyper-

excessive

-cyte

cell

-oid

resembling

sub-

below