Chapter15- Musculo-skeletal system
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- Calc/o, Calci/o
- Calcium
- Kyph/o
- Humpback (posterior curvature in the thoracic region)
- Lamin/o
- Lamina (part of the vertebral arch)
- Lord/o
- Curve, swayback ( anterior curvature in teh lumbar region)
- Lumb/o
- loins, lower back
- Myel/o
- bone marrow
- orth/o
- straight
- oste/o
- bone
- scoli/o
- crooked, bent (lateral curvature)
- spondyl/o
- vertebra
- vertebr/o
- vertebra
- -blast
- immature cell
- -clast
- to break
- -listhesis
- slipping
- -malacia
- softening
- -physis
- to grow
- -porosis
- pore, passage
- -tome
- instrument to cut
- acetabul/o
- acetabulum
- calcane/o
- calcanues
- carp/o
- carpals
- clavicul/o
- clavicle
- cost/o
- ribs (true ribs, false ribs, and floating ribs)
- crani/o
- cranium (skull bones)
- femor/o
- femur
- fibul/o
- fibula (smaller lower leg bone)
- humer/o
- humerus (upper arm bone)
- ili/o
- illium (upper part of pelvic bone)
- isch/o
- iscium ( posterior part of the pelvic bone)
- malleol/o
- malleolus (process on each side of the ankle)
- mandibul/o
- mandible
- maxill/o
- maxilla
- metcarp/o
- metacarpels
- metatars/o
- metatarsals
- olecran/o
- olecranon (elbow)
- patell/o
- patella ( kneecap )
- pelv/i
- pelvis (hipbone)
- perone/o
- fibula
- phalang/o
- phalanges (finger and/ or toe bones)
- pub/o
- pubis (anterior part of the pelvic bone)
- radi/o
- radius
- scapul/o
- scapula
- stern/o
- sternum
- tars/o
- tarsals
- tibi/o
- tibia
- uln/o
- ulna