Medical Terminology Skeletal System

What is the Medical Term for Stiff Joint

• burs/o

• ankyl/o

• arthr/o

• carp/o

What is the Medical Term for rib?

• cost/o

• crani/o

• cervic/o

• coccyg/o

what is the medical term for vertebrae?

• stern/o

• spondyl/o

• spin/o

• scapul/o

what is the medical term for crooked?

• scoli/o

• sacr/o

• scapul/o

• stern/o

What are joints also known as?

• sutures

• soft spots

• articulations

• medullary

What is the term meaning the death of bone tissue?

• Osteonecrosis

• kyphosis

• scoliosis

• osteomyelitis

What is the medical term for skull?

• cortic/o

• femor/o

• crani/o

• fibul/o

What is the medical term for the condition in which the bones become weak and brittle?

• rheumatoid arthritis

• arthritis

• osteomalacia

• osteoporosis

What is the medical term for the surgical repair of a joint?

• Nephrectomy

• Arthroplasty

• Laminectomy

• Cholecystectomy

Which of the following is a medical term for the abnormal curvature of the spine?

• kyphosis

• osteoporosis

• scoliosis

• lordosis