JOINT COMBINING FORMS
COMMON COMBINING FORMS
DISEASE TERMS
DISEASE AND DISORDER TERMS 2
SURGICAL TERMS
100
Chondr/o
What is cartilage?
100
stiff, bent
What is ankyl/o
100
MUSCLE WEAKNESS
What is MYASTHENIA?
100
ALSO CALLED HALLUX VALGUS. ABNORMAL PROMINENCE OF THE JOINT AT THE BASE OF THE GREAT TOE.
What is A BUNION?
100
SURGICAL REPAIR OF A JOINT
What is ARTHROPLASTY?
200
menisc/o
What is meniscus?
200
bone marrow
What is myel/o?
200
INFLAMMATION OF THE BONE
What is OSTEITIS?
200
TYPE OF WRIST FRACTURE AT THE DISTAL END OF THE RADIUS, THE DISTAL FRAGMENT IS DISPLACED BACKWARD.
What is COLLES FRACTURE (fx)
200
EXCISION OF A RIB
What is COSTECTOMY?
300
arthr/o
What is joint?
300
crooked, curved (spine)
What is scoli/o?
300
INFLAMMATION OF AN INTERVERTEBRAL DISK
What is DISKITIS? (DISCITIS)
300
GROUP OF HEREDITARY DISEASES CHARACTERIZED BY DEGENERATION OF MUSCLE AND WEAKNESS.
What is MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (MD)
300
SURGICAL PUNCTURE TO ASPIRATE FLUID FROM A JOINT
What is ARTHROCENTESIS?
400
aponeur/o
What is aponeurosis?
400
kinesi/o
What is movement, motion
400
SOFTENING OF BONE
What is OSTEOMALACIA?
400
AN INFECTION CAUSED BY BORRELIA BURGDORFERI WHICH IS CARRIED BY DEER TICKS.
What is LYME DISEASE?
400
surgical repair of a tendon and muscle
What is tenomyoplasty?
500
ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
What is tendon?
500
my/o, myos/o
What is muscle?
500
DISSOLUTION OF STRIATED MUSCLE
What is RHABDOMYOLYSIS?
500
FORWARD SLIPPING OF ONE VERTEBRA OVER ANOTHER
What is SPONDYLOLISTHESIS?
500
SURGICAL BREAKING OF A STIFF JOINT
What is ARTHROCLASIA?
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