From Canvas (Medical Terminology) - Unit 4: The Skeletal System

acetabul/o

acetabulum

ankyl/o

stiff, crooked, bent

arthr/o (arth-)

joint

articul/o

joint

blast/o

embryonic stage of development

bursa

bursa

calc/i

calcium

calcane/o

heel bone

carp/o

wrist, carpal

chondr

cartilage

clavicul/o

collar bone, clavicle

coccyg/o

coccyx

cost/o (costal)

ribs, pertaining to the ribs

crani/o (cranium)

skull, cranium

dorsal

back

femor/o (femur/o)

femur

fibul/o

fibula

gen/o (gen-)

to produce, that which generates

hemat-

blood

humer/o

humerus

ili/o

ilium

ischi/o

ischium

kyph/o

hump, humpback, condition of a hump

ligament/o

ligament

lord/o (lordos)

bent forward

lumb/o

loins, lower back, lumbar

mastoid/o

mastoid process

maxill/o

upper jaw, maxillary

metacarp/o

hand bones, metacarpal

metatars/o

foot bones, metatarsal

my/o

muscle

myc/o (myc-)

fungus, fungal

myel/o (myel/i)

bone marrow, spinal cord

olecran/o

elbow

onych/o

nail

orth/o

straight

oste/o

bone

patell/o

kneecap, patellar

pelv/i

pelvis

phalang/o

fingers, toes, phalange

pub/o

pubis

sarc-

connective tissue, flesh

scapul/o

shoulder blade, scapula

scoli/o

curvature, crooked, bent

spondyl/o

vertebra

sten-

short, narrow

tars/o

ankle bones, tarsal

troph/o

growth, development

a- / an-

no, without, not

dys-

bad, difficult, or painful

endo-

within

epi-

above

inter-

between, within

intra-

within

neo-

new

peri-

around

sym-

together

-ad

toward

-algia

pain

-blast / -blasts

immature or embryonic cell, stem cell

-centesis

surgical puncture

-clast / -clasts

to break down, to break

-cyte / -cytes

cells

-ectomy

surgical removal

-genic

to produce, pertaining to producing

-gram

record or picture

-graphy

process of recording, recording

-ic

pertaining to

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

softening

-metry

measuring

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-otomy

surgical incision

-pathy

disease or disorder

-physis

growth, growing

-plasia

growth, development

-plasty / -plast

surgical repair

-poiesis

formation, production, creation (to make)

-porosis

porous, passage, lessening in density

-scopy

view with a scope, process of viewing with an endoscope

-um

noun ending