Chapter 3 The Skeletal System Elements Flashcards
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end-
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in, within
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peri-
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surrounding, around
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poly-
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many, much
4
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ankyl/o
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crooked, bent, stiff
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arthr/o
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joint
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chondr/i, chondr/o
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cartilage
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cost/o
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rib
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crani/o
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cranium, skull
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hem/o
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blood, relating to blood
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ili/o
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ilium, flaring hip bone
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kyph/o
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bent, hump
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lamin/o
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lamina
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lord/o
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curve, swayback, bent
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myel/o
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spinal cord, bone marrow
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oss/e, oss/i ost/o, oste/o
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bone
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pod/o
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foot
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sacr/o
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sacrum
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scoli/o
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curved, bent
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spondyl/o
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vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone
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synovi/o, synov/o
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synovial membrane, synovial fluid
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-ago
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abnormal condition, disease
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-al
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pertaining to
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-algesia, -algesic
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painful, pain sense
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-clasis, -clast
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break down
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-desis
to bind, tie together
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-iatrist
specialist
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-itis
inflammation
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-listhesis
slipping
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-lysis
breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening
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-malacia
abnormal softening
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-necrosis
abnormal tissue death
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-oma
tumor, neoplasm
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-otomy
cutting, surgical incision
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-pathy
disease, suffering, feeling, emotion
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-penia
deficiency, lack, too few
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-poiesis
formation, to make
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-rrhaphy
surgical suturing
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-sclerosis
abnormal hardening
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-scopy
visual examination
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-stenosis
abnormal narrowing
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-um
thing, singular noun ending
