Muscle Shapes
Combining Forms
Prefixes
Suffixes
Directional Movements
100

Pyramid-shaped

What is pyramidal?

100

Thym/o

What is thymus?

100

Anti-

What is against?

100

-uria

What is urination?

100

Rising up

What is elevation?

200

Trapezoid or kite-shaped

What is trapezius?

200

Glyc/o

What is glucose?

200

Mono-

What is one?

200

-megaly

What is enlargement?

200

Going down

What is depression?

300
Triangle-shaped

What is deltoid?

300

Gynec/o

What is female?

300

Exo-

What is outward?

300

-stasis

What is stoppage of flow?

300

Toward body

What is inversion?

400

Pear-shaped

What is piriformis?

400

Aden/o

What is gland?

400

Endo-

What is inward?

400
-edema

What is swelling?

400

Adding

What is adduction?

500

Circle-shaped

What is obicularis?

500

Natr/o

What is sodium?

500

Pan-

What is all?

500

-dipsia

What is thirst?

500

Away

What is abduction?