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Musculoskeletal System
Medical word elements and suffixes
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Biology
Graduate
06/09/2013
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Crooked, bent, stiff
 Definition
Ankly/o
Term
Humpback
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Kyph/o
Term
Curve, swayback
 Definition
Lord/o
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Vertebrae
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Spondyl/o or Vertebr/o
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Smooth Muscle, visceral (has the middle part of "muscle" aka "myo")
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Leiomy/o
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-asthenia
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weakness or debility
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-clasia
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to break...to surgically fracture
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-blast
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to break
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-desis
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binding, fixation
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-malacia
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softening
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-physis
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growth
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-porosis
 Definition
porous (has holes)
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