Combining Forms/Suffixes
Meaning sac
What is burs/o?
Meaning surgical breaking of a bone
What is osteoclasia?
The two parts to the skull
What are the cranium and facial bones?
Joints that allow no movement and are joined by thick fibrous tissue
What are fibrous joints?
Known as the curvature of the spine
What is scoliosis?
Meaning foot
What is pod/o?
Bone disease
What is osteopathy?
Five section of the vertebral column
What is the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx membrane?
Ends of the bones are covered with this
What is articular cartilage?
Known as a common wrist fracture
What is Colles' fracture?
Meaning immature
What is -blast?
Instrument to cut bone
What is osteotome?
The bone found in the forearm on the thumb side
What is the radius?
Where two bones meet is also know as what system?
What is articulation?
Bone fragments are pushed into each other
What is impacted fracture?
Meaning hump
Wha is kyph/o?
Arthrography
What is a picture or image to see a joint by x-ray?
Bone parts makes up the trunk?
What is vertebral column, sternum, and rib cage?
Synovial joints are enclosed in what elastic component?
What is a joint capsule?
Artificial device to substitute for a missing or damaged body part
Meaning to stabilize; fuse
What is -desis?
Chondroectomy
What is the surgical removal of the cartilage?
The pectoral girdle articular anteriorly with what bone
What is the sternum?
Cartilaginous joints move slightly because of what type of movement?
What is involuntary movement?
Brace or splint used to prevent or correct deformities; specialist in making is an orthotist
What is orthotic?