Orthopedics medical terminology

Word roots specific to Orthopedics

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Arthr/o

Joint

Burs/o

Bursa

Carp/o

Carpus (wrist)

Chondr/o

Cartilage

Clavicul/o

Clavicle (collar bone)

Coccyg/o

Coccyx (tailbone)

Cost/o

rib

Crani/o

Skull

Femor/o

Femur (Thigh Bone)

Fibul/o

fibula (thinner lower leg bone)

Humer/o

Humerous (upper arm bone)

ili/o

Ilium (part of pelvis)

Ischi/o

Ischium (part of pelvis)

Kyph/o

Hump

Lord/o

bent backward

Mandibul/o

Mandible (lower jaw)

Maxill/o

Maxilla (upper jaw)

Metacarp/o

metacarpus (hand bones)

metatars/o

metatarsus (foot bones)

Muscul/o or my/o

muscle

myel/o

bone marrow

oste/o

bone

Patell/o

patella (kneecap)

Phalang/o

phalanges (fingers and toes)

pub/o

pubis (part of pelvis)

radi/o

Radius (part of forearm)

sacr/o

sacrum

scapul/o

scapula (shoulder blade)

scoli/o

croooked, bent

spondyl/o

vertebra

stern/o

sternum (breast bone)

tars/o

tarsus (ankle)

ten/o or tendin/o

tendon

tibi/o

tibia (shin bone, larger lower leg bone)

uln/o

ulna (part of forearm)

Vertebr/o

Vertebra (backbone)

Word roots not use in orthopedics but still necessary

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cutane/o

skin

fibr/o

fibrous

path/o

disease

electr/o

electricity

orth/o

straight

Suffixes being used

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-ac

pertaining to

-al

pertaining to

-algia or -dynia

pain

-ar

pertaining to

-ary

pertaining to

-asthenia

weakness

-centesis

puncture to withdraw fluid

-clasia

surgical breaking

-cyte

cell

-desis

surgical fusing

-eal

pertaining to

-ectomy

surgical removal

-genic

producing

-gram

a record

-graphy

process of recording

-ic

pertaining to

-itis

inflammation

-kinesia

movement

-malacia

abnormal softening

-metry

process of measuring

-oma

tumor

-osis

abnormal condition

-otomy

cutting into

-ous

pertaining to

-pathy

disease

-plasty

surgical repair

-porosis

porous

-rrhapy

to suture

-rrhexis

rupture

-scope

instrument for viewing

-scopy

process of visually examining

-tome

instrument to cut

-trophy

development

Prefixes being used

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a-

without

brady-

slow

dys-

painful, difficult, abnormal

hyper-

excessive

inter-

between

intra-

within

per-

through

sub-

under

supra-

above

Building terms

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iliac

pertaining to the ilium

subiliac

pertaining to under the ilium

carp

pertaining to the carpus

costal

pertaining to the rib

intercostal

pertaining to between the

femoral

pertaining to the femur

humeral

pertaining to the humerus

ischial

pertaining to the ischium

metacarpal

pertaining to the metacarpus

metatarsal

pertaining to the metatarsus

radial

pertaining to the radius

sacral

pertaining to the sacrum