1. Skeletal System
Chapter 3 key word parts

2. Ankyl/o Crooked bent stiff
Remember by thinking your ankle is bent and gets stiff when you exercise too much. But don’t confuse the spelling!

3. Arthr/o Having to do with the joint.
Think arthritis which is inflammation of the joints.

4. Chondr/o
Having to do with cartilage

5. Cost/o Having to do with your ribs
What do you think costochondritis is?

6. Crani/o
Having to do with the skull
As in cranium

7. -desis
A surgical fixation of bone or joint, to bind, tie together or stiffen.
Different from ankyl/o stiffening in that it is caused by surgery not natural processes.
Arthrodesis – is a stiffening of a joint or joining of spinal vertebrae by surgical means.

8. Kyph/o Bent Hump Usually refers to someone who is humpbacked.
The hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo, had kyphosis. (Remember –osis means abnormal condition or disease.)

10. Lord/o
Curve
Bent
Swaybacked

12. -lysis
Breakdown
Separation
Setting free
Destruction
Loosening
Cutting

13. Myel/o
Spinal cord
Bone marrow

14. Oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o
Having to do with bone
Oste/o is probably the most commonly used

15. -poietic Formation To make
Hematopoietic means something has the ability to make blood cells.

16. Scoli/o
Curved
Bent
Scoliosis – lateral bending of the spine.

18. Spondyl/o
Vertebrae
Vertebral column
Aka backbone

19. -um A singular noun ending
Periosteum – tough fibrous tissue that forms the outermost covering of bone.
Peri – surrounding
Oste – bone
um – noun ending

20. Acro- Brachi/o Burs/o Carp/o Cervic/o Chir/o Lumb/o Pod, ped, ped/i
New Word Parts
Acro-
Brachi/o
Burs/o
Carp/o
Cervic/o
Chir/o
Lumb/o
Pod, ped, ped/i
Sacr/o
Synovi/o
Tars/o

21. - listhesis
-clasis
Rachi/o