Combining Forms
Suffixes
Prefixes
Anatomy
Pathology
100
Combining form that means crooked, bent, or stiff
What is ankyl/o?
100
suffix that means surgical fixation of bone or joint
What is -desis?
100
prefix that means within
What is end-?
100
forms joints by connecting one bone to another bone or joining a bone to cartilage
What is a ligament?
100
abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
What is scoliosis?
200
Combining form that means skull
What is crani/o?
200
suffix that means setting free, loosening
What is -lysis?
200
word root that means lamina
What is lamin?
200
the medical term for hip socket
What is the acetabulum?
200
name of the fracture which occurs at the lower end of the radius (wrist fracture)
What is Colles' fracture?
300
combining form that means rib
What is chondr/o?
300
suffix that means diseased condition
What is -ago?
300
word root that means bone
What is oste?
300
the opening in the middle of the vertebra for the spinal cord
What is vertebral foramen?
300
adult rickets
What is osteomalacia?
400
combining form that means hump
What is kyph/o?
400
suffix that means specialist - (and not -ologist)
What is -iatrist?
400
word root that means lumbar
What is lumb?
400
the tissue that lines the medullary cavity
What is the endosteum?
400
the difference in primary bone cancer and secondary bone cancer
What is primary bone cancer which originates in a bone and secondary bone cancer which has spread (metastasized) to bones from other organs?
500
combining form that means vertebra, vertebrae
What is spondyl/o?
500
suffix that means slipping
What is -listhesis?
500
word root that means ilium
What is ili?
500
the name and number of vertebra in the first three groups starting at the neck
What is cervical - 7, thoracic - 12, lumbar - 5?
500
thinner than average bone density in a young person
What is osteopenia?
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