Prefixes/Suffixes
Muscles
Bones
Blood
Abbreviations
100
The suffix meaning blood condition
What is emia?
100
Muscle found only in the heart
What is cardiac muscle?
100
The place of union between two or more bones
What is an articulation or joint?
100
The smallest formed elements found in blood
What is platelets?
100
RBCs
What is the abbrevation for red blood cells?
200
The suffix meaning growth
What is physis?
200
Muscles whose actions are involuntary
What are smooth or visceral muscles?
200
Bones that can't be classified as short or long because of their complex shapes
What are irregular bones?
200
Type of blood cells that protect the body against invasion by pathogens and foreign substances, remove debris from injured tissues, and aid in the healing process
What are white blood cells (leukocytes)?
200
The abbreviation for fracture
What is Fx?
300
The prefix for bad, painful, or difficult
What is dys?
300
The medical term for a tumor of the muscle
What is a myoma?
300
The production and development of blood cells in the bone marrow
What is hematopoiesis?
300
Another name for platelets
What is thrombocytes?
300
The abbreviation for electromyography
What is EMG?
400
The suffix meaning protein
What is globin?
400
A neuromuscular disorder that causes fluctuating weakness of skeletal muscle groups
What is myasthenia gravis (MG)?
400
The long, main portion of a bone
What is the diaphysis?
400
A jellylike mass of blood cells and fibrin
What is a thrombus or blood clot?
400
NK Cells
What is the abbreviation for natural killer cells?
500
The suffix meaning carrying or transmission
What is phoresis?
500
A fibrous attachment that spans over a large area of a particular bone
What is an aponeurosis?
500
A spongy or porous structure, found at the ends of long bones
What is cancellous?
500
The liquid portion of blood in which blood cells are suspended
What is plasma?
500
The abbreviation for second cervical vertebra
What is C2?