Word Parts
What word part means muscle?
What is my/o?
A band of fibrous tissue that holds structures together abnormally.
What is adhesion?
This term means the rupture or tearing of muscle tissue?
What is myorrhexis?
Surgical suturing of a muscle.
What is myorrhaphy?
What is a strain?
What word part means coordination, order?
What is tax/o?
A lack of normal muscle tone.
What is atonic?
This means pain in a muscle.
What is myalgia?
This is the surgical incision into a muscle.
What is myotomy?
Slight paralysis or weakness affecting one side of the body.
What is hemiparesis?
What word part means paralysis, stroke?
What is -plegia?
The compression of nerves and blood vessels due to swelling within an enclosed space created by the fascia that separates groups of muscles?
What is compartment syndrome?
This terms is also known as hiccups.
What is singultus?
This is the release of a tendon from adhesions.
What is tenolysis?
These types of muscles are voluntary and striated.
What are skeletal muscles?
What word part means hernia, tumor or swelling?
What is -cele?
A painful condition caused by the muscle tearing away from the tibia.
What is shin splint?
This is also known as tennis elbow.
What is lateral epicondylitis?
A soft tissue manipulation used to ease pain.
What is myofascial release?
Paralysis of all four extremities.
What is quadriplegia?
What word part means movement?
What is kines/o or kinesi/o?
Pain in the leg muscles that occurs during exercise and is relieved by rest.
What is intermittent claudication?
A chronic autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction and causes weakness of voluntary muscles.
What is myasthenia gravis?
What is a fasciotomy?
This movement bends the foot downward at the ankle.
What is plantar flexion?