Word Parts
What combining form means muscle?
What is MY/O?
what term means decreasing the angle at a joint?
What is FLEXION?
What term means the rupture or tearing of muscle tissue?
What is MYORRHEXIS?
What procedure is the surgical suturing of a muscle?
What is MYORRAPHY?
What term is sudden, involuntary contraction of muscle?
What is SPASM?
What suffix means tumor, cyst, or hernia?
What is -CELE?
What term means movement toward the midline?
What is ADDUCTION?
What term means pain in a muscle?
What is MYALGIA?
What term is a soft-tissue manipulation used to ease pain?
What is MYOFASCIAL RELEASE?
What term means paralysis of all four extremities?
What is QUADRIPLEGIA?
What suffix means paralysis?
What is -PLEGIA
What attaches a muscle to bone or to another muscle?
What is a TENDON?
What term means inflammation of a fascia?
What is FASCIITIS?
What procedure is a surgical incision through the fascia?
What is FASCIOTOMY?
What term is also known as hyperactivity?
What is HYPERKINESIA?
What combining form means movement?
What is KINESI/O?
What types of muscles are known as voluntary muscles?
What are SKELETAL MUSCLES?
What is EPICONDYLITIS?
What proceudre is the surgical incision into the muscle?
What is MYOTOMY?
What term means pain in the leg muscles during exercise?
What is INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION?
What combining form means coordination?
What is TAX/O?
What term means a ring-like muscle?
What is SPHINCTER?
What term is also known as hiccups?
What is SINGULTUS
What procedure means suturing a tendon's divided ends?
What is TENORRAPHY?
What term is also known as stiff neck or wryneck?
What is SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS?