Suffixes
Prefixes
Skeletal System Terminology
Types of Fractures
Abbreviations
100

Suffix of weakness

What is "-asthenia"
100
Prefix of away from
What is "ab-"?
100

Long bones

What are "longer than they are wide"?
100

Transverse

What is "bone broken straight across"?

100

Occupational Therapist 

What is "OT"?

200
Suffix of break

What is "-clast"?

200

Prefix of together/joined

What is "sym-"?
200

Compact bone

What is "the hard exterior surface of bones"?

200

Oblique

What is "broken at an angle"?
200

Bone mineral density

What is "BMD"?
300

Suffix of surgical breaking

What is "-clasia"?

300
Suffix of within

What is "intra-"?

300

Fibrous joints

What is "allows almost no movement"?

300

Open

What is "broken and pierced through the skin"?

300
Fracture
What is "FX"?
400

Suffix of puncture to withdraw fluid

What is "-centesis"?

400

Suffix of towards

What is "ad-"?

400

Located in the shaft of bone and is made of adipose tissue

What is "yellow bone marrow"?

400

Spiral

What is "bone twisted apart"?
400
Doctor of Chiropractic

What is "DC"?

500

Suffix of abnormal softening

What is "-malacia"?

500

Other suffix of together, joined

What is "syn-"?

500

Type of arthritis consisting of pain and swelling at joint between big toe and forefoot

What is "gout"?
500

Greenstick

What is "partially broken bone"?

500
Osteoarthritis

What is "OA"?

M
e
n
u