Unit 5 Roots
Roots used in word building for Unit 5 (musculoskeletal system) are listed here.
Root | Definition |
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agon | main actor; driver |
alges[ia] | pain |
ankylos | stiff |
appendix | part attached to the end |
arthr arthro |
joint |
articul[us] | joint |
asthenia | weakness |
axi | axis |
blast | a rapidly dividing cell |
burs bursa |
purse; bag |
carcin | cancer |
carp | wrist |
center | middle of a round object |
cephal | pertaining to the head |
cervic cervico |
neck |
chondr chondro |
cartilage |
circum | around |
clast | breakdown |
clonus | violent shaking |
condyle | knob |
cost costo |
rib |
cranio | head; skull |
crepit[us] | crackling noise |
cyt | cell |
dactyl | finger |
duct | to lead |
effusion | pouring out of |
electro | related to electricity |
erg[on] | energy |
exten[d] | moving away from |
facet | flat spot, like on a jewel |
fasci fascio |
bundle of fibers |
femor femur |
thigh |
fissure | deep crack |
fixate | remain in place |
flex | reducing the angle of a joint |
foramen | hole |
fossa | shallow groove |
fracture | broken bone |
genu | knee |
glen[e] | socket |
gomph | tooth |
graph | written record |
hallux | big toe |
hemo hemato |
blood |
hydr | water |
inflammation | inflammation |
kines kinet |
movement |
kyphosis | hunchback curve of spine |
lacrim | crying; tears |
lamella | thin plate |
lemma | thin layer surrounding a cell |
lordosis | swayback curve of spine |
lumb lumbo |
lower back |
luxation | dislocation |
meatus | tube; passage |
medull[a] | marrow; center |
membran[e] | thin sheet |
mere | a part |
metric | measurement |
musculo | muscle |
my myo myos |
muscle |
myel | marrow |
necro | death |
neuro | nervous system |
occipit[o] | back of the head |
olisthes | slippage |
ortho | straight; at right angles; true |
os osse ost osteo |
bone |
pector[is] | chest |
pelvis | hips; lower abdomen |
phalanges | fingers and toes |
physis | part of a bone |
plasm | something molded; plastic or dough |
polariz[e] | to go to one extreme or another |
pollux | thumb |
por[e] | hole |
prone | face down |
pyre | fever |
sarc sarco |
muscle; flesh |
scler | hard |
scoliosis | lateral curvature of the spine |
scop | instrument for looking inside |
skelet | skeleton; bones collectively |
spasm | uncontrollable contraction |
sphincter | muscle surrounding an opening |
spin spina spine |
spine; vertebrae |
spondyl spondlyo |
vertebrae |
sprain | injury to ligaments |
sten | abnormal narrowing |
sterno sternum |
sternum; breastbone |
strain | injury to muscles or tendons |
sulcus | groove |
supine | face up |
tars tarso tarsus |
ankle |
tax | moving |
tempor | side of the head |
ten teno tendo tendin tendon |
tendon |
thorac thorax |
chest |
tibia | bone of the lower extremity below the knee |
tomo | cutting |
ton tono |
tone, strength |
trochanter | point on femur where large leg muscles attach |
trochlea | piece of bone that acts as a pulley |
troph | nourishment, growth |
tuber | potato-like raised area on bone |
valgum | knees closer than normal |
varum | knees farther apart than normal |
vertebra | bone of spinal column |
zygoma | yoke; joins bones of face to those of skull |