Upon completion of this chapter you will be able to:
- Recognize the combining forms and suffixes introduced in this chapter.
- Gain the ability to pronounce medical terms and major anatomical structures.
- List the major organs of the musculoskeletal system and describe their functions.
- Correctly place bones in either the axial or the appendicular skeleton.
- Recognize the components of a long bone.
- Identify bony projections and depressions.
- Identify the parts of a synovial joint.
- Describe the characteristics of the three types of muscle tissue.
- Distinguish the major muscles of the body.
- Use movement terminology correctly.
- Build musculoskeletal system medical terms from word parts.
- Define vocabulary, pathology, diagnostic, and therapeutic medical terms relating to the musculoskeletal system.
- Recognize types of medication associated with the musculoskeletal system.
- Interpret abbreviations associated with the musculoskeletal system.
