Question

How can  someone use medical terminology skills to combine word roots, prefixes, and suffixes that they already know in order to define new terms related to the musculoskeletal system?

Answer 1

Musculoskeletal system means the bones and muscles.

Most medical term use some or all the five word parts.

• Prefix: used in the beginning of the medical word
• Suffix: used at the end of a medical word
• Word root: they are main part of the word identifying the body functions, disease process for diagnosis
• Combining vovel : used after prefix or word root helping in pronounciation
• Combining form: this is also word root helping in pronounciation

Using this the Physician can define new terms related to musculoskeletal system