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Virginia College - Medical Terminology - Chapter 6 Root Words

Home Get App Take Quiz Create cephal/o head cervic/o neck cost/o ribs myel/o red bone marrow, spinal cord oste/o bone stern/o sternum (breast bone) thorac/o chest brachi/o arm carp/o carpus (wrist bone) clavicul/o clavicle (collar bone) humer/o humerus (upper arm bone) femor/o femur (thigh bone) fibul/o fibula (smaller, outer bone of lower leg) lumb/o lower back patell/o patella (knee) arthr/o joint lei/o smooth my/o, myos/o muscle fibr/o fibrous tissue ten/o tendon kinesi/o motion tax/o movement, reaction to a stimuli troph/o development ankyl/o crooked chondr/o cartilage kyph/o hump lord/o bent forward por/o hole sarc/o flesh scoli/o curved articul/o joint burs/o bursa carp/o wrist condyl/o knuckle of a joint cran/o, crani/o skull, cranium fasci/o fascia ili/o flank, hip, groin, ilium of the pelvis ischi/o haunch, hip joint, ischium menisc/o meniscus muscul/o muscle orth/o straight ost/o, oste/o bone pariet/o wall ped/o child petr/o stone phalang/o phalanges phys/o growth pub/o pubis radi/o radius sacr/o sacred, sacrum skelet/o skeleton spondyl/o vertebra synov/o, synovi/o synovial tars/o tarsal (ankle bone) ten/o, tendon/o stretch, tendon vertebr/o vertebra carcin/o cancer leuk/o white lith/o stone lamin/o thin, lamina electr/o electricity

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