Skeletal System Vocab Quiz

Blast-

• immature blood cell (stem cell)

• a cell that destroys or resorbs

• foot

Clast-

• immature blood cell (stem cell)

• a cell that destroys or resorbs

• foot

Ped-

• immature blood cell (stem cell)

• a cell that destroys or resorbs

• foot

-centesis

• surgical puncture (as of a tumor or membrane)

• surgical fixation of bone or joint; to bind; tie together

• abnormal softening of a tissue

-desis

• surgical puncture (as of a tumor or membrane)

• surgical fixation of bone or joint; to bind; tie together

• growth areas of a long bone

-malacia

• abnormal softening of a tissue

• growth areas of a long bone

• formation, production

-physis

• growth areas of a long bone

• formation, production

• surgical fixation of bone or joint; to bind; tie together

-poiesis

• formation, production

• a cell that destroys or resorbs

• surgical fixation of bone or joint; to bind; tie together

Ankyl/o

• bent, crooked, stiff, fused

• joint

• wrist

Arthr/o, articul/o      

• bent, crooked, stiff, fused

•  joint

• sac, containing fluid at places of friction in the body (joints)