Chapter 15 LOM
Terms
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calc/o
calci/o - calcium
- kyph/o
- humpback
- lamin/o
- lamina (part of the vertebral arch)
- lord/o
-
curve,
swayback - lumb/o
- loins, lower back
- myel/o
- bone marrow
- orth/o
- straight
- oste/o
- bone
- scoli/o
- crooked, bent
- spondyl/o
- vertebrae - used to make words about conditions of the structure
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae - used to describe the structure
- -blast
- immature cell
- -clast
- to break
- -listhesis
- slipping
- -malacia
- softening
- -physis
- to grow
- -porosis
-
pore,
passage - -tome
- instrument to cut
- acetabul/o
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acetabulum
(hip socket) - calcane/o
-
calcaneus
(heel bone) - carp/o
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carpals
(wrist bones) - clavicul/o
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clavicle
(collar bone) - cost/o
- rib
- crani/o
- cranium
- femor/o
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femur
(thigh bones) - fibul/o
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fibula
(smaller lower leg bone) - humer/o
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humerus
(upper arm bone) - ili/o
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ilium
(upper part of pelvic bone) - ischi/o
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ischium
(posterior part of pelvic bone) - malleol/o
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malleolus
(process on each side of ankle) - mandibul/o
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mandible
(lower jaw bone) - maxill/o
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maxilla
(upper jaw bone) - metacarp/o
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metacarpals
(hand bones) - metatars/o
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metatarsals
(foot bones) - olecran/o
-
olecranon
(elbow) - patell/o
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patella
(kneecap) - pelv/i
-
pelvis
(hipbone) - perone/o
- fibula
- phalang/o
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phalanges
(finger and/or toe bones) - pub/o
-
pubis
(anterior part of the pelvic bone) - radi/o
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radius
(lower arm bone - thumb side) - scapul/o
-
scapula
(shoulder bone) - stern/o
- sternum
- tars/o
-
tarsals
(bones of the hindfoot) - tibi/o
-
tibia
(shin bone) - uln/o
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ulna
(lower arm bone - little finger side) - ankyl/o
- stiff
- arthr/o
- joint
- articul/o
- joint
- burs/o
- bursa
- chondr/o
- cartilage
- ligamet/o
- ligament
- rheumat/o
- watery flow
- synov/o
- synovial membrane
- ten/o
- tendon
- tendin/o
- tendon
- -desis
-
to bind,
tie together - -stenosis
- narrowing
- fasci/o
-
fascia
(forms enveloping sheaths around muscles) - fibr/o
- fibrous connective tissue
- leiomy/o
- smooth muscle that lines the walls of internal organs
- my/o
- muscle
- myocardi/o
- heart muscle
- myos/o
- muscle
- plant/o
- sole of the foot
- rhabdomy/o
- skeletal muscle connected to bones
- -asthenia
- lack of strength
- -trophy
- development, nourishment
- ab-
- away from
- ad-
- toward
- dorsi-
- back