medical

ankyl/o

stiffness, bent, crooked
lord/o

curve, swayback
myel/o

bone marrow, spinal cord
oste/o

bone
pod/o

foot
scoli/o

crooked, bent
brachi/o

arm
carp/o

carpus (wrist bones)
patell/o

patella ( kneecap)
ped/i , ped/o

foot, child
vertebr/o , spondyl/o

vertebrae (back bone)
chondr/o

cartilage
fasci/o
- band, fascia
- (fibrous membrane supporting & separating muscle)
-asthenia

weakness, debility
-blast

embryonic cell
-clasia, -clast

to break, surgical fracture
-desis

binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
-malacia

softening
-physis

growth
syn-

union, together, joined

Author

willow

ID

27258

Card Set

medical

Description

Musculoskeletal

Updated

2010-07-18T23:00:02Z

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