Key word parts
Prefixes/Suffixes
Medical Terms
Contrasting Muscle Motions
Sports Injuries
100
Key word meaning movement
What is kinesi/o
100
Prefix meaning two
What is bi-
100
Ataxia means
What is inability to coordinate the muscles
100
toward the midline
What is adduction
100
injury to a joint such as ankle, knee, or wrist
What is a sprain
200
Key word meaning coordination
What is tax/o
200
Suffix meaning surgical fixation
What is -desis
200
impaiment of voluntary movement
What is dyskinesia
200
away from the midline
What is abduction
200
injury to the body of the muscle or attachment of the tendon
What is a strain
300
Key word meaning tone
What is ton/o
300
Suffix meaning destruction or breaking down
What is -lysis
300
Excessive tone of the skeletal muscles
What is hypertonia
300
turns a bone on its own axis
What is rotation
300
pain caused by the muscles tearing away from the tibia
What is a shin splint
400
Key word meaning fascia
What is fasci/o
400
Suffix meaning paralysis
What is -plegia
400
suture of a muscle wound
What is myorrhaphy
400
lowers a body part
What is depression
400
painful inflammation of the achilles tendon
What is achilles tendinitis
500
Key word meaning tendon
What is ten/o, tend/o, and tendin/o
500
Suffix meaning rupture
What is -rrhexis
500
chronic, progressive disease affecting the skeletal muscles
What is polymyositis
500
bends the foot downward at the ankle
What is plantar flexion
500
strain or tear of the posterior femoral muscles
What is a hamstring injury
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