Bones and Muscles

Combining Forms

100

Calcium

calci/o

200

Curve of the lumbar region

lord/o

300

lamina; vertebral arche

lamin/o

400

bone

oste/o

500

humpback

kyph/o

Suffixes

100

immature cell

-blast

200

to break

-clast

300

to grow

-physis

400

pore or passage

-porosis

500

slipping

-listhesis

Prefixes

100

away from

ab-

200

toward

ad-

300

back

dorsi-

400

many or much

poly-

500

before or forward

ante-

Bones Vocab.

100

Traumatic breaking of a bone

Define: Fracture

200

skull bones

Define: Cranial bones

300

Narrow, slit-like opening between bones

Define: Fissure

400

Joint between bones such as the skull

Define: Suture

500

Bone cell that helps form bone tissue

Define: Osteoblast

Muscles Vocab.

100

Bending a limb; decreasing the angle between two bones

Define: Flexion

200

Bending the sole of the foot downward toward the ground

Define: Plantar Flexion

300

Fibrous membrane separating and enveloping muscles

Define: Fascia

400

A smooth muscle

Define: Visceral Muscle

500

Turning the palm forward

Define: Supination