abbreviations
What is bone density testing?
A surgical incision or division of a rib or ribs
What is costotomy?
spinal cord, bone marrow
What is myel/o?
rib
What is cost/o?
Hemarthrosis is blood within a joint
What is hem (blood), arthr (joint), -osis (condition)?
The abbreviations for this word is OA
What is osteoarthritis?
Abnormal softening of the skull
What is craniomalacia?
setting free, loosening
What is -lysis?
cartilage
What is chondr/I or chondr/o?
Osteomalacia, also known as adult rickets, is abnormal softening of bones in adults.
What is oste/o (bone) and -malacia (abnormal softening)?
The abbreviation is RA
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
The surgical removal of a joint
to bind, tie together
What is -desis?
verebrae
What is spondyl/o?
What is oste/o (bone), chondr (cartilage), and -oma (tumor)?
The abbreviations is PKR
What is partial knee replacement?
Inflammation of more than one joint
What is polyarthritis?
crooked, bent, stiff
What is ankyl/o?
Curved, bent
What is scoli/o?
Periostitis is an inflammation of the periosteum. There are two medical words to break down!
What is peri- (surrounding), ost (bone), and -itis (inflammation) and what is Peri- (surrounding), oste (bone), and -um (noun ending)?
What is total hip arthroplasty?
Any disease involving the bones and joints
What is osteoarthropathy?
swayback, bent
What is Lord/o?
Hump
What is kyph/o?
Spondylolisthesis is the forward slipping movement of the body of one of the lower lumbar vertebrae on the vertebrae or sacrum below it. There are two medical words to break down!
Wnat is spondyl/o (Vertebrae) and -listhesis (slipping) and what is lumb (lower back) and -ar (pertaining to)?