Word Parts
What word part means muscle?
What is my/o?
This term means the act of raising or lifting a body part?
What is elevation?
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?
This means decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint?
What is flexion?
This means pain in a muscle.
What is myalgia?
This is the surgical incision into a muscle.
What is myotomy?
Movement of a limb toward midline.
What is adduction?
What word part means paralysis, stroke?
What is -plegia?
This attaches muscle to bone or to another muscle?
What is a tendon?
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?
These are involuntary muscles and line the digestive tract.
What are smooth muscles?
This is also known as tennis elbow.
What is 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?
A band of connective tissue that encloses, seperates or binds together mucles.
What is fascia?
A chronic autoimmune disease that 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?