musculoskeletal

English

Etymology

musculo- +‎ skeletal

Adjective

musculoskeletal (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to both muscles and the skeleton
   • 2006, Stephen A. Paget, Hospital for Special Surgery Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient, page 2:

     Have the patient collect an hour-by-hour log of work activities, with an attempt to define actions that may cause or exacerbate musculoskeletal problems.

   • 2023 January 25, Alun Baker, “A wellbeing crisis”, in RAIL, number 975, page 65:

     The most common cause of absence in the rail and bus sectors is musculoskeletal - conditions that affect joints, bones and muscles. Between January 1 2019 and June 30 2022, 6.5 million working days were lost due to musculoskeletal illness at a cost of £946m.

Derived terms

• extramusculoskeletal

 

Translations

of, or relating to both muscles and the skeleton

• Dutch: musculoskeletaal
• Finnish: muskuloskeletaalinen
• Italian: muscoloscheletrico (it)
• Macedonian: мускулноскелетен m (muskulnoskeleten)
• Spanish: musculoesquelético