Medical Terms – Skeletal System

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering medical combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes related to the skeletal system.

acr/o

Extremities (limbs)

-algia

Pain

ankyl/o

Stiff

arthr/o

Joint

calcane/o

Calcaneus (Heel bone)

carp/o

Wrist

-centesis

Surgical puncture to remove fluid

cervic/o

Neck

chondr/o

Cartilage

-clast

To break

cost/o

Rib

crani/o

Skull

-desis

To bind; tie together

-ectomy

Removal

kyph/o

Humpback

lord/o

Curve; swayback

lumb/o

Lower back

-lysis

Breakdown, separation, destructions, loosening

-malacia

Softening

myel/o

Spinal cord; bone marrow

orth/o

Straight

-osis

Condition, usually abnormal

oste/o

Bone

-plasty

Surgical repair

-porosis

Condition of pores

rheumat/o

Watery flow

scoli/o

Crooked, bent

spondyl/o

Vertebrae (backbone)

ten/o

Tendon

-tomy

Process of cutting