skeletal - med terms (combining forms)

acr/o

Extremities

Ankyl/o

Stiff, bent, crooked, fused

Carp/o

Wrist

Cervic/o

Neck cervix neck of uterus

Chir/o

Hand

Chondr/o

Cartilage

Cost/o

Rib

Cubit/o

Elbow

Dactyl/o

Digits

Dextr/o

To the right

Fermor/o

Thigh bone, femur

Fibul/o

Fibula, lower leg bone

Humer/o

Upper arm bone, humerus

Hy/o

Hyoid bone

Ili/o

Ilium, hip bone

Kyph/o

Hunchback

Lord/o

Curve, swayback

mandibul/o

Lower jaw, mandible

Lux/o

Slide

Menisc/o

Meniscus

Myel/o

Bone marrow, spinal cord

Narc/o

Sleep, numbness, stupor

Phalang/o

Phalanges, toes and fingers

Physi/o

Function

Por/o

Opening, porous, passageway

Pod/o

Foot

Pub/o

Pubis, pubic region

Pyret/o

Fever

Rachi/o

Spine, vertebra

rheumat/o

Watery flow

Sacr/o

Sacrum

Sarc/o

Flesh

Scoli/o

Crooked, bent

Sinistr/o

To the left

Spondyl/o

Vertebra, backbone

Ster/o

Solid structure, steroid

styl/o

Column, pillar, tube

Synovi/o

Lubricated fluid in a joint

Tars/o

Tarsals, ankles

Tibi/o

Tibia, lower leg bone

Uln/o

Ulna, lower arm bone