Range of Motion
Combining form means stiffening, hardening
What is ankyl/o?
This means the sheet of tissue that seperates the muscles
What is fasci/o? Fascia is the term
This is the upper portion of the pelvis that you can feel at the top of your hips
What is ili/o? You can feel you ilium.
This term means the bone in the forearm that runs right to the thumb
What is radi/o? The bone is the radius.
The breast bone
What is stern/o?
This means cartilage
What is chondr/o?
This combining form means straight
What is orth/o?
Smaller bone of the lower leg
What is fibul/o? It is the outer part of the ankle.
Combining form for hand bones
What is metacarp/o?
This means vertebrae
What is spondyl/o?
This term means inflammation of the cartilage
What is chondritis?
This combining form means the inferior portion of the pelvis
What is ischi/o? To help you remember, you sit on your ischial tuberosities. Those are the bony prominences you can feel when you sit down.
Foot bones
What is metatars/o?
It is not the funny bone, but it is the combining form for upper arm bone
What is humer/o? It is kind of humerus.
Collar bone
What is clavicul/o?
This is the term for a patient that has an exagerated Thoracic spinal curvature (I don't like the term the text has, humpback)
What is kyphosis?
Combining form for knee cap
What is Patell/o?
Thigh bone
What is femor/o? Your femur!
Means fingers or toes
What is dactyl/o?
Rod shaped or striated muscle
What is rhabdomy/o?
This means spinal cord or bone marrow
What is myel/o?
Combining form for pelvis
What is pelv/i or pelv/o?
This is your heel bone
What is calcane/o? I bruised my calcaneus
Wrist bones
What is carp/o? Like carpal bones, there are 2 rows of 4.
Term for condition meaning destruction of striated muscle
What is rhabdomyolysis?