Word Parts
Directional Terms
Skeletal Terms
Muscular Terms
Hodge Podge
100
Add this suffix to mean flow or discharge
What is -rrhea?
100
Movement away from the body
What is abduction?
100
My favorite word for the fingers and toes
What are phalanges?
100
Combining form for muscle
What is my/o?
100
If your patient had nerve pain you would use this term
What is neuralgia?
200
Red, white, and blue......
What is erythr/o, leuk/o, and cyan/o?
200

If you are lying on your stomach you are in this position

What is prone?

200
The shoulder blade AKA the chicken wing!
What is the scapula?
200
If you had muscle wasting or "without development" you would use this term
What is atrophy?
200
A patient with an earache, sinus infection, and sore throat would see this specialist
What is otorhinolaryngologist?
300
If you want to straighten something you would start with this combining form
What is orth/o?
300
Turn your palm up and put a bowel of "soup" on it
What is supination?
300
The layman's term for the patella
What is the kneecap?
300
MAs you will want to know the name of this muscle if you give an injection in the upper arm
What is the deltoid?
300
If you were going to visually examine the inside of the joint, you would use this term
What is arthroscopy?
400

Careful you don't slip and fall. If you do you may break this combining form that means bone.

What is -osteo?

400
Your pinkie finger is on this side of the arm
What is medial?
400

If you are lying on your back you are in this position.

What is supine?

400
Your sitting on this BIG muscle
What is the gluteus maximus?
400

This forearm bone is located on the pinky side.

What is the ulna?

500
This suffix means baby or embryonic
What is -blast?
500
Point your toes down like a ballerina
What is plantar flexion?
500
The bone in the upper arm and this is not funny!!!
What is the humerus?
500
Build and excessively develop those muscles!!
What is hypertrophy?
500
Oh no, your patient "ruptured their muscle" running the marathon
What is myorrhexis?
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