Word Building
Prefixes & Suffixes
Word Roots
Body Parts
Terms
100
My/algia
What is muscle pain?
100
Between
What is inter-?
100
Bursa
What is burs?
100
Breast bone
What is sternu?
100
Inflammation of the joint
What is arthritis?
200
Dys/kinesi/a
What is painful movement?
200
Weakness
What is -asthenia?
200
Ilium
What is ili?
200
Cervical vertebrae
What is C1-C7?
200
Pertaining to the wrist
What is carpal?
300
Stern/o/cost/al
What is pertaining to the sternum and the ribs?
300
Surgical fusion ( to immobilize)
What is -desis?
300
Hump (spine)
What is kyph?
300
Thoracic vertabrae
What is T1-T12?
300
Excision of the phalanx
What is phalangectomy?
400
Rachi/o/tomy
What is incision into the vertebral column?
400
Softening
What is -malacia?
400
Vertebra, spine, vertebral column.
What is spondyl/rachi?
400
Lumbar vertabrae
What is L1-L5?
400
Suture of a tendon
What is tenorrhaphy?
500
Oste/o/necr/osis
What is abnormal condition of death of the bone tissue?
500
Fissure
What is -schisis?
500
Development
What is troph?
500
This is used as a reference point for the best location for CPR compressions.
What is xiphoid process?
500
Inflammatory changes in the connective tissue throughout body
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
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