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

align/o-

arranged in a straight line

ankyl/o-

fused together; stiff

arthr/o-

joint

chondr/o-

cartilage

comminut/o-

break into small pieces

compress/o-

press together

congenit/o-

present at birth

depress/o-

press down

dextr/o-

right; sugar

fract/o-

bend; break up

gener/o-

creation; production

gen/o-

arising from; produced by

hem/o-

blood

kyph/o-

bent; humpbacked

lev/o-

left

log/o-

study of; word

lord/o-

swayback

malac/o-

softening

mineral/o-

electrolyte; mineral

myel/o-

bone marrow; myelin; spinal cord

necr/o-

dead body; dead cells; dead tissue

olisthe/o-

slipping

oste/o-

bone

path/o-

disease

por/o-

pores; small openings

rheumat/o-

watery discharge

sarc/o-

connective tissue

scoli/o-

crooked; curved

spondyl/o-

vertebra

spir/o-

breathe; coil

vascul/o-

blood vessel

a-

away from; without

de-

reversal of; without

dis-

away from

mal-

bad; inadequate

trans-

across; through

-al

pertaining to

-ative

pertaining to

-ar

pertaining to

-ed

pertaining to

-esis

condition; process

-ia

condition; state; thing

-ic

pertaining to

-ion

action; condition

-itis

infection of; inflammation of

-ization

process of creating; process of inserting; process of making

-ment

action; state

-oid

resembling

-oma

mass; tumor

-osing

condition of making

-osis

condition; process

-pathy

disease

-phyte

growth

-tic

pertaining to

-ure

result of; system

-verse

travel; turn