Ch4_Medical_Terminology_Part1_Muscles_Word_Parts

• Combining Forms:
• .....muscul/o
• .....my/o
• .....myos/o

• Primary Functions:
• .....1. Makes body movement possible
• .....2. Hold body erect
• .....3. Move body fluids thru ducts & tubes
• ........of other body systems via muscle action *
• .....4. Produce 85% of body heat via muscle action
• .....5. Move food thru digestive system

* Muscle movement, such as walking, also aids the flow of blood thru veins as it returns to heart.

• Structure:
• .....Muscle Fiber: Long, slender cells
• .....Muscle: Group of muscle fibers held together by connective tissue and enclosed in fascia

• Combining Form:
• .....fasci/o

• Plural Form:
• .....fasciae
• .....fascias
• Primary Function:
• .....Cover, support, & separate muscles/muscle groups
• Structure:
• .....Sheet of dense, fibrous connective tissue
• .....Flexible to allow muscle movement
• .....Does NOT have elestic properties to accomodate swelling of enclosed tissues

• Combining Form:
• .....ten/o
• .....tend/o
• .....tendin/o

• Primary Function:
• .....Attach muscles to bones

• Structure:
• .....Narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue

Note: Ligaments attach bones to bones or bones to cartilage.

Suffix meaning: pertaining to

Suffix meaning: pertaining to

Prefix meaning: movment of a limb away from the midline of the body

Combining form meaning: to lead

Suffix meaning action

Prefix meaning: movement of a limb toward the midline of the body

Combining form meaning to bend

Prefix meaning away from

Combining form meaning to stretch out, extend, strain

Prefix meaning two

Suffix meaning head

Prefix meaning three

Combining form meaning fascia

Combining form meaning fibrous connective tissue

Suffix meaning inflammation

Suffix meaning pain

Combining form meaning muscle

Suffix meaning pain

Combining forms meaning tendon

Suffix meaning hernia, swelling, tumor

• Suffix meaning
• .....1. release or set free (Ex: tenolysis)
• .....2. destruction or breaking down as in disease, degeneration, or deterioration (Ex: myolysis)

Suffix meaning abnormal softening

Suffix meaning rupture

Prefix meaning many

Combining form meaning flesh, connective tissue

Suffix meaning deficiency

Prefix meaning without

Combining form meaning tone, tension, stretching

Suffix meaning pertaining to

Prefix meaning bad

Suffix meaning abnormal condition

Prefix meaning excessive

Prefix meaning deficient, decreased

Combining form meaning coordination, order

Prefix meaning slow

Combining form meaning movement

Note: The suffix form is -kinesia

Suffix meaning violent action

TIP: think 'clonk'

Singular noun ending

Suffix meaning weakness, lack of strength

TIP: think anesthesia

Prefix meaning on, upon, above

Combining form meaning condyle, knuckle, knob

Suffix meaning partial or INcomplete paralysis

TIP: think partial feeling

PRefix meaning half

Suffix meaning paralysis

Combining form meaning four

Combining form meaning heart

Example: Cardioplegia = cardiac arrest Can be natural or induced for medical treatment

combining form meaning electricity, electrical

Suffix meaning process of producing a record or picture

Combining form meaning nerve

Suffix meaning surgical incision

Suffix meaning surgical repair

Suffix meaning to bind or tie together; surgical fixation of a bone or joint

Suffix meaning surgical removal

Suffix meaning surgical suturing

TIP: think 'rr-running stitch'