Lesson 4: Musculoskeletal System - Combining Forms

73 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Calc/ocalci/o
Calcium
Kyph/o
Humpback, hunchback (posterior curvature in the thoracic region)
Lamin/o
Lamina (part of the vertebral arch)
Lord/o
Curve, swayback(anterior curvature in the lumbar region)
Lumb/o
Loins, lower back
Myel/o
Bone marrow
Orth/o
Straight
Osteo/o
Bone
Scoli/o
Crooked, bent(lateral curvature)
Spondyl/o(used to make words about conditions of the structure)
Vertebra
Vertebr/o
Vertebra
-blast
Embryonic, immature
-clast
To break
-listhesis
Slipping
-malacia
Softening