Skeletal System Chapter 3 key word parts
Ankyl/o Crooked bent stiff Remember by thinking your ankle is bent and gets stiff when you exercise too much. But don’t confuse the spelling!
Arthr/o Having to do with the joint. Think arthritis which is inflammation of the joints.
Chondr/o Having to do with cartilage
Cost/o Having to do with your ribs What do you think costochondritis is?
Crani/o Having to do with the skull As in cranium
-desis A surgical fixation of bone or joint, to bind, tie together or stiffen. Different from ankyl/o stiffening in that it is caused by surgery not natural processes. Arthrodesis – is a stiffening of a joint or joining of spinal vertebrae by surgical means.
Kyph/o Bent Hump Usually refers to someone who is humpbacked. The hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo, had kyphosis. (Remember –osis means abnormal condition or disease.)
Lord/o Curve Bent Swaybacked
-lysis Breakdown Separation Setting free Destruction Loosening Cutting
Myel/o Spinal cord Bone marrow
Oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o Having to do with bone Oste/o is probably the most commonly used
-poietic Formation To make Hematopoietic means something has the ability to make blood cells.
Scoli/o Curved Bent Scoliosis – lateral bending of the spine.
Spondyl/o Vertebrae Vertebral column Aka backbone
-um A singular noun ending Periosteum – tough fibrous tissue that forms the outermost covering of bone. Peri – surrounding Oste – bone um – noun ending
Acro- Brachi/o Burs/o Carp/o Cervic/o Chir/o Lumb/o Pod, ped, ped/i New Word Parts Acro- Brachi/o Burs/o Carp/o Cervic/o Chir/o Lumb/o Pod, ped, ped/i Sacr/o Synovi/o Tars/o
- listhesis -clasis Rachi/o