Combining form
Condition/disease
Structure/organ
Word breakdown
Terminology
100

Ovari/o

What is Ovaries?

100

Lack of voluntary control (wobbliness)

What is Ataxia?

100

Sheet of fibrous connective tissue. Covers, supports and separates muscle

What is Facia?

100

Hematopoietic

Hemat/o - blood

poietic - pertaining to formation

100

Injury that does not break the skin

What is Contusion?

200

Cost/o

What is Ribs?

200

Sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles caused by brain disturbances

What is Seizures?

200

A three-layered membrane that surrounds the CNS

What is Meninges?

200

Tachypnea

tachy - abnormally fast

pnea - breathing

200

Erosion of skin or mucous membrane

What is Ulcer?

300

Chondr/o

What is Cartilage?

300

A condition where the heart beats with an irregular/abnormal rhythm

What is Arrhythmia?

300

Glands that produce gametes

What is Gonads?

300

Kineseology

Kenesi/o - movement

ology - study of

300

Formation of bone from fibrous tissue

What is Ossification?

400

Laryng/o

What is Larynx?

400

An accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity

What is Ascites?

400

Vessels that carry blood away from the heart

What is Arteries?

400

Osteoarthritis

Oste/o - bone

Arth/r - joint

itis - inflammation

400

Moving from one place to another (walking, running)

What is Ambulation?

500

Encephal/o

What is Brain?

500

Obstruction of the blood vessel by a blood clot that has become dislodged from another site in the circulation

What is Thromboembolism?

500

The muscle that separates the thoracic and peritoneal cavities

What is Diaphragm?

500

Encephalomyelitis

Encephal/o - brain

myel/i - spinal cord

itis - inflammation

500

Point at which nerve endings come in contact with the muscle cell

What is Neuromuscular Junction?

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