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Surgical incision into the skull
Craniotomy
Degenerative condition of the spinal structure
Spomdylosis
Pain in multiple muscles
Polymyalgia
Treatment of fracture with pins and plates inside the body is known as
internal fixation
Combining form for stiff, crooked
ankyl/o
Chronic bone disease that destroys normal bone in the pelvis, skull, spine and legs and replaces it with abnormal bone
Paget's disease
Arthritis that causes inflammation between the vertebrae
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Humpback
Kyphosis
How many bones are in an adult human body
206
Combining form for rib
Cost/o
Cancer in the blood forming cells of the bone marrow
Multiple Myeloma
Rupture of the intervertebral disk that causes pressure on the spinal nerves
Herniated disc
Swayback
Lordosis
Three small bones in the middle ear are known as the
Auditory Ossicles
Word part means to bind, tie together
-desis
Congenital defect in which the spinal cord fails to close around the spinal cord
Spina Bifida
abnomal softening of cartilage
Chondromalacia
lateral curvature of the spine
Scoliosis
The skeleton that houses the skull and spinal canal is
Axial
Combining form for skull
Crani/o
pain in the lumbar region
Lumbago
Blood within a joint
Hemarthrosis
treatment of fracture with pins and plants outside the body is known as
External fixation
Combining form for bone marrow
Myel/o
How many regions are in the ventral portion of the body
9