Skeletal system word parts

cartilage

•  ankyl/o
• arthr/o
• kyph/o
• chondr/o

Spondyl/o means:

• vertebrae
• bone
• crooked
• broken

The root word for bone is:

• cost/o
• lord/o
• chondr/o
• oste/o

"Arthr/o" means:

• pain
• curved
• bone
• joint

Combining form meaning arm

• brachi/o

• myel/o

• oste/o

• sacr/o

Suffix that means abnormal condititon

• -malacia

• -osis

• -ation

• --centesis

prefix that means change or beyond

• intra-

• supra-

• meta-

• super-

prefix that means together or with

• intra-

• syn-

• supra-

• inter-

suffix that means softening

• -malacia

• -centesis

• -ation

• -tion

suffix that means process or condition

• -ation

• -centesis

• -megaly

• -malacia