Musculoskeletal System

Front 1

Ankyl/o

Back 1

Stiffness; bent, crooked

Front 2

Arthr/o

Back 2

Joint

Front 3

Kyph/o

Back 3

Humpback

Front 4

Lamin/o

Back 4

Lamina (part of vertebral arch)

Front 5

Lord/o

Back 5

Curve, swayback

Front 6

Myel/o

Back 6

Bone marrow; spinal cord

Front 7

Orth/o

Back 7

Straight

Front 8

Osteo/o

Back 8

Bone

Front 9

Ped/o

Back 9

Foot; child

Front 10

Pedi/ pedicure

Back 10

Care of feet

Front 11

Scoli/o

Back 11

Crooked, bent

Front 12

Thorac/o

Back 12

Chest

Front 13

Acromi/o

Back 13

Acromion (projection of scapula)

Front 14

Brachi/o

Back 14

Arm

Front 15

Calcane/o

Back 15

Calaneum (heel bone)

Front 16

Carp/o

Back 16

Carpus (wrist bone)

Front 17

Cephal/o

Back 17

Head

Front 18

Cervic/o

Back 18

Neck; cervix uteri (neck of uterus)

Front 19

Clavicul/o

Back 19

Clavicle (collar bone)

Front 20

Cost/o

Back 20

Ribs

Front 21

Crani/o

Back 21

Cranium (skull)

Front 22

Dactyl/o

Back 22

Fingers; toes

Front 23

Femor/o

Back 23

Femur (thigh bone)

Front 24

Fibul/o

Back 24

Fibula (smaller bone of lower leg)

Front 25

Humer/o

Back 25

Humerous (upper arm bone)

Front 26

Ili/o

Back 26

Ilium (lateral, flaring portion of hip bone)

Front 27

Ischi/o

Back 27

Ischium (lower portion of hip bone)

Front 28

Lumb/o

Back 28

Loins (lower back)

Front 29

Metacarp/o

Back 29

Metacarpus (hand bones)

Front 30

Metatars/o

Back 30

Metatarsus (foot bones)

Front 31

Patell/o

Back 31

Patella (kneecap)

Front 32

Pelv/i

Back 32

Pelvis

Front 33

Phalang/o

Back 33

Phalanges (bones of the fingers and toes)

Front 34

Pod/o

Back 34

Foot

Front 35

Pub/o

Back 35

Pelvis bone (anterior part of pelvic bone)

Front 36

Radi/o

Back 36

Radiation, x-ray; radius (lower arm bone on thumb side)

Front 37

Spondyl/o

Back 37

Vertebrae (backbone)

Front 38

Verterbr/o intervertebral

Back 38

Relating to the area between two vertebrae

Front 39

Stern/o

Back 39

Sternum (breastbone)

Front 40

Tibi/o

Back 40

Tibia (larger bone of lower leg)

Front 41

Leiomy/o

Back 41

Smooth muscle (visceral)

Front 42

Muscul/o

Back 42

Muscle

Front 43

My/o myoma

Back 43

Tumor of muscle (tissue)

Front 44

Rhabd/o

Back 44

Rod-shaped (striated)

Front 45

Rhabdomy/o

Back 45

Rod-shaped (striated) muscle

Front 46

Chondr/o

Back 46

Cartilage

Front 47

Fasci/o

Back 47

Band, fascia (fibrous membrane supporting and separating muscles)

Front 48

Fibr/o

Back 48

Fiber, fibrous tissue

Front 49

Synov/o

Back 49

Synovial membrane, synovial fluid

Front 50

Ten/o

Back 50

Tendon

Front 51

Tend/o tendoplasty

Back 51

Surgical repair of a tendon

Front 52

Tendin/o tendinitis

Back 52

Inflation of a tendon

Front 53

-asthenia

Back 53

Weakness, debility

Front 54

-blast

Back 54

Embryonic cell

Front 55

-clasia

Back 55

To break; surgical fracture

Front 56

-clast

Back 56

To break

Front 57

-desis

Back 57

Binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)

Front 58

-malacia

Back 58

Softening

Front 59

-physis

Back 59

Growth

Front 60

-porosis

Back 60

Porous

Front 61

-scopy

Back 61

Visual examination

Front 62

a-

Back 62

Without, not

Front 63

dys-

Back 63

Bad; painful; difficult

Front 64

sub-

Back 64

Under, below

Front 65

supra-

Back 65

Above; excessive; superior

Front 66

syn-

Back 66

Union, together, joined