Word Parts
The combining form my/o means this.
What is muscle?
The movement of a limb away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
The weakness or wearing away of body tissues and structures.
What is atrophy?
The surgical suturing of a muscle.
What is a myorrhaphy?
Total paralysis affecting only one side of the body.
What is hemiplegia?
The combining form fasci/o refers to a fibrous band or this structure.
What is fascia?
The movement of a limb toward the midline of the body.
What is adduction?
Extreme slowness in movement.
What is bradykinesia?
A physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation with the focus on restoring function.
What is a physiatrist?
The quick, involuntary jerking of a muscle or group of muscles.
What is myoclonus?
The word part tax/o means coordination or order. The prefix tri- means three, and bi- means this.
What is double, twice, or two?
The circular movement at the far end of a limb.
What is circumduction?
A band of fibrous tissue that holds structures together abnormally.
What is an adhesion?
A diagnostic test that measures the electrical activity within muscle fibers in response to nerve stimulation.
What is electromyography?
Myoclonus of the diaphragm that causes the characteristic hiccup sound with each spasm.
What is singultus?
The combining forms kines/o or kinesi/o refer to this.
What is movement?
The movement that bends the foot upward at the ankle, decreasing the angle between the top of the foot and the front of the leg.
What is dorsiflexion?
A group of more than 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles without affecting the nervous system.
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
A specialized soft-tissue manipulation technique used to ease the pain of conditions such as fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel syndrome.
What is myofascial release?
The loss of muscle mass, strength, and function that comes with aging.
What is sarcopenia?
The suffixes -plegia and -rrhexis mean these two things, respectively.
What are paralysis and rupture?
The act of rotating the arm or leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned downward or backward.
What is pronation?
A chronic autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction and produces serious weakness of voluntary muscles.
The surgical procedures known as tenodesis and tenolysis perform these actions on tendons.
What are suturing the end of a tendon to a bone and releasing a tendon from adhesions?
A stiff neck due to spasmodic contraction of the neck muscles that pull the head toward the affected side (also known as wryneck).
What is torticollis?