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OT 200 Chapter 3
Ankyl/o - answer✔crooked, bent, stiff
arthr/o - answer✔joint
chondr/i, chondr/o - answer✔cartilage
cost/o - answer✔ribs
crani/o - answer✔skull
-desus - answer✔to bind, tie together
kyph/o - answer✔bent, hump
lord/o - answer✔curve, swayback, bent
-lysis - answer✔loosening or setting free
myel/o - answer✔spinal chord, bone marrow
oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o - answer✔bone
scoli/o - answer✔curved, bent
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spondyl/o - answer✔vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone
synovi/o, synov/o - answer✔synovial membrane, synovial fluid
-um - answer✔singular noun ending
acetabulum - answer✔the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur
fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
allogenic - answer✔originating within another
ankylosing, spondylitis - answer✔A form of rheumatoid arthritis that primarily causes
inflammation of the joints between the vertebrae
arthrodesis - answer✔surgical fusion of a joint
arthrolysis - answer✔the surgical loosening of an ankylosed joint
arthroscopy - answer✔visual examination of a joint
autologous - answer✔originating within an individual
chondroma - answer✔a common benign tumor of cartilage cells
chondromalacia - answer✔softening of cartilage
communited fracture - answer✔bone is splintered or crushed
compression fracture - answer✔occurs when the bone is pressed together (compressed) on
itself
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