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VET 114 Week 2
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Ankyl/o | Stiff |
Arthr/o | Joint |
my/o | Muscle |
articul/o | Joint |
Burs/o | Bursa |
Myel/o | Bone Marrow, Spinal cord |
Necr/o | Death |
olecran/o | Olecranon |
Orth/o | Bone |
Chondr/o | Cartilage |
Pariet/o | Side |
Patell/o | Patella |
Dactyl/o | Digits |
Erg/o | Work |
Phalang/o | Phalanges, digits |
rhabdomy/o | Striated (skeletal) muscle |
rheumat/o | Watery flow |
sarc/o | (flesh), connective tissue |
ili/o | ilium |
Kinesi/o | Movement |
lacrim/o | tear duct, tear |
Ten/o | Tendon |
leiomy/o | Smooth (visceral) muscle |
Ton/o | Tension |
Hyper- | above; excessive |
Hypo- | deficient; below; under; less than normal |
Ab- | away from |
Ad- | Toward |
Meta- | Change, beyond |
Pan- | All |
Anti- | Against |
Peri- | Around, Surrounding |
Dys- | Bad, abnormal, Painful |
Dia- | Through, complete |
Poly- | Many, Much |
Sub- | Under, below |
Supra- | Above, Upper |
Syn- | Together, With |
Epi- | Above, Upon, On |
-Osis | Abnormal condition |
-Blast | Immature, embryonic |
-clast | To Break |
-Pexy | surgical fixation; to put in place |
-Physis | To Grow |
-desis | surgical fixation; to bind; tie together |
-cyte | Cell |
-Plasty | Surgical repair |
-Poiesis | Formation |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-rrhaphy | Suture |
-fication | Process of Making |
-sclerosis | Hardening |
-genesis | Producing, Forming |
-scopy | visual examination |
-tome | Instrument to cut |
-tomy | process of cutting; incision |
-trophy | development; nourishment |
-malacia | Softening |
-metry | Measurement |
ACL | Anterior Cruciate Ligament |
PROM | Passive Range of Motion |
EMG | Electromyogram |