Medical Terminology Chapter 3 The Skeletal System

Ankyl/o

Crooked, bent, stiff

Arthr/o

Joint

Chondr/i, Chondr/o

Cartilage

Cost/o

Rib

Cran/i

Skull

-Desis

Bind, tie together

Kyph/o

Hump

Lord/o

Bend backward

-Lysis

Loosening or setting free

Myel/o

Bone marrow

Oss/e, Oss/l, Ost/o, Oste/o

Bone

Scoli/o

Curved

Spondyl/o

Vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

Synovi/o, Synov/o

Synovial membrane

-Um

Noun ending

Peri

Surrounding

End-

Within

Hem/o

Blood

-Poietic

Pertaining to formation

Crani

Skull

Cost/o

Rib

Sacr/o

Sacrum

Ili

Ilium

-Path

Disease

Pod

Foot

-Iatrist

Specialist

Ankyl

Crooked, bent, or stiff

-Sclerosis

Abnormal hardening

Burs

Bursa

Chondr

Cartilage

-Malacia

Abnormal softening

Poly-

Many

-Algia

Pain

-Osis

Abnormal condition or disease

Lum

Lumbar

-Ago

Diseased condition

-Listhesis

Slipping

Lord

Bent backward

Scoli

Curved or bent

Myel

Bone marrow

-Necrosis

Tissue death

Peri-

Surrounding

-Oma

Tumor

Por

Small opening

Penia

Deficiency

-Scopy

Visual examination

-Plasty

Surgical repair

-Ectomy

Surgical removal

Vertebr/o

Vertebrae

Lamin

Lamina

-Otomy

Surgical incision

-Clasis

To break

-Rrhaphy

Surgical suturing

Peri-

Surrounding