Skeletal System Combining Forms

Combining form that means extremities

• acr/o

• ankly/o

• arthr/o

• cap/o

Combining form that means crooked; bent; stiff; fused together

• ankly/o

• chondr/o

• narc/o

• crani/o

combining form that means joint

• arthr/o

• lux/o

• cost/o

• lumb/o

combining form that means arm

• brachi/o

• tars/o

• sacr/o

• sarc/o

combining form that means bursa (sac of fluid near joint)

• burs/o

• arthr/o

• kyph/o

• myel/o

combining form that means wrist

• carp/o

• tars/o

• cost/o

• ster/o

combining form that means neck; cervix (neck of uterus)

• cervic/o

• thorac/o

• lord/o

• lumb/o

combining form that means hand

• chir/o

• scoli/o

• pyret/o

• orth/o

combining form that means cartilage

• chondr/o

• narc/o

• oste/o

• orth/o

combining form that means rib

• cost/o

• tend/o

• spondyl/o

• ped/o