MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM COMBINING FORMS - LESSON 218
In this lesson, we will learn about important musculoskeletal system combining forms. All combining forms are very important to understand the medical terminology well. As a medical transcription learner, you must know the meaning of all the system combining forms to do the live files once you promoted into production. Every learner should have one good medical dictionary to know the meaning of each terminology crosschecked. Each medical word is a combination of one or more combining forms bridging vowel in general the letter 'O' and a suffix or the word end. In this way, every trainee should try to split each medical word and understand it. 1. Calc/o means calcium. Hypocalemia means a disease condition of less calcium in the bones. Hypercalcemia means an abnormal condition of more calcium in the bones. 2. Calci/o means calcium. Decalcification is an abnormal condition of loss of calcium in the bones. 3. Kyph/o means humpback. Kyphosis is an abno