MT Ch 15 Combining Forms/Suffixes

-desis

• to cut

• to narrow

• to bind, tie together

• slipping

ten/o

• tendonitis

• joint

• tendon

• ligament

oste/o

• lamina

• bone

• crooked, bent

• osteon

-blast

• to break

• embryonic; immature cell

chondr/o

• color

• white

• cartilage

vertebr/o

• vertebra

• vertebral column

• vertigo

• curve, swayback

humer/o

• tibia

• fibula

• humerus

• ilium

maxill/o

• maxilla

• maximum

• maxillary

arthr/o

• arthritis

• arthrogram

• joint

• artist

lumb/o

• lordosis

• thoracic

• loins, low back

• cervical