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Medical terminology
Skeletal System
Term | Definition |
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ankly/o | stiff, crooked, bent |
anthr/o | joint |
articul/o | joint |
brachi/o | arm |
burs/o | bursa |
calcane/o | heel |
carp/o | wrist |
centr/o | center |
cephal/o | head |
cervic/o | neck, cervix |
chir/o, cheir/o | hand |
chondr/o | cartilage |
cleid/o | clavicle |
coccyg/o | coccyx |
cost/o | rib |
cox/o | hip |
crani/o | skull |
cubit/o | elbow, forearm |
dactyl/o | digit, (finger or toe) |
eury- | wide, broad |
faci/o | face |
femor/o | femur |
fibul/o | fibula |
geni/o | chin |
gnath/o | jaw |
gnos/o | knowledge |
goni/o | angle |
gyr/o | circle, spiral |
holo- | entire, complete |
humer/o | humerus |
hypsi- | high |
ili/o | ilium |
ischi/o | ischium |
ithy- | erect, straight |
kyph/o | humpback |
lamin/o | lamina |
lip/o | fat |
-listhesis | slipping |
lord/o | curvature, bending |
lox/o | oblique, slanting |
lumb/o | loin |
maxill/o | maxilla |
mega-, megalo- | large |
-megaly | enlargement |
mel/o | limb, limbs |
om/o | shoulder |
opisth/o | backward, behind |
oste/o | bone |
pan- | all |
patell/o | patella |
ped/o | foot,child |
pelv/i | pelvis |
perone/o | fibula |
petr/o | stone, petrous region of temporal bone |
phalang/o | phalanges |
-physis | growth, growing |
pod/o | foot |
-porosis | porous, decrease in density |
pub/o | pubis |
rachi/o | spine |
sacr/o | sacrum |
scapul/o | scapula |
scoli/o | crooked, twisted |
skelet/o | skeleton |
spin/o | spinal cord, spine |
spondyl/o | vertebrae |
stern/o | sternum |
synov/o | synovia, synovia membrane |
tal/o | talus |
tars/o | talus, edge of eye lid |
tibi/o | tibia |
vertebr/o | bertebra |
xiph/o | sword-shaped, xiphoid |