Do You Know These Skeletal Root Words Flashcards

Do you know these Skeletal Root words? If you are a medical student who is willing to refresh their understanding when it comes to names given to the human skeleton, you are in luck as the flashcards below are perfect for that. Give them each a read and get to see if you remember them by taking the quizzes that follow.

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
Calc/o
calci/o
Calcium
Kyph/o
Humpback, hunchback
Lamin/o
Lamina - part of the vertebral arch
Lord/o
Curve, swayback
Lumb/o
Loins, lower back
Myel/o
Bone marrow
Orth/o
Straight
Oste/o
Bone
Scoli/o
Crooked, bent
Spondyl/o
Vertebra
Vertebr/o
Vertebra
-blast
Immature cell
-clast
To break
-listhesis
Slipping
-malacia
Softening