skeletal system
This combining form means bone.
What is oste/o?
This combining form means muscle.
What is my/o?
This combining form means heart.
What is cardi/o?
This combining form means lung or air.
What is pulmon/o?
This combining form means nerve.
What is neur/o?
This suffix means inflammation.
What is -itis?
This suffix means pain.
What is -algia?
This prefix means fast or rapid.
What is tachy-?
This suffix means breathing.
What is -pnea?
This suffix means paralysis.
What is -plegia?
This combining form means joint.
What is arthr/o?
This combining form means tendon.
What is ten/o?
This prefix means slow.
What is brady-?
This prefix means bad, painful, or difficult.
What is dys-?
This combining form means brain.
What is cerebr/o?
This medical term means inflammation of a joint.
What is arthritis?
This medical term means the wasting away or shrinking of muscle tissue from lack of use.
What is atrophy?
This is medical term means an abnormally fast heart rate.
What is tachycardia?
This medical term means difficult or painful breathing.
What is dyspnea?
This medical term means inflammation of the brain.
What is encephalitis?
This medical term means the surgical removal of a bone.
What is an ostectomy?
This medical term means muscle pain.
What is myalgia?
This medical term means enlargement of the heart.
What is cardiomegaly?
This medical term means a temporary absence or stoppage of breathing.
What is apnea?
This medical term means nerve pain.
What is neuralgia?