Skeletal System Medical Terminology

The mass of bone that forms at a Fx. site is called:

• adhesion
• callus
• bunion
• exostosis

The noise that bones can make when they rub against each other or on cartilage.

• exostosis
• callus
• crepitation
• friction

A Podiatrist would see you as a patient if you had an injured_______________.

• hand
• knee
• foot
• back

Swayback is:

• lordosis
• kyphosis
• scoliosis
• spondylolisthesis

Prefix meaning "to, toward, near"

• a-
• ab-
• ad-
• bi-

Spondyl/o means:

• vertebrae
• bone
• crooked
• broken

The root word for "crooked, bent or stiff" is:

• scoli/o
• synovi/o
• spondyl/o
• ankyl/o

The root word "chondr/i" or "chondr/o" means:

• cartilage
• arthritis
• joint
• rib

The root word for bone is:

• cost/o
• lord/o
• chondr/o
• oste/o

The root word for curved, swayback or bent is:

• synovi/o
• lord/o
• scoli/o
• spondyl/o