Medical Term Ch 10 - musculoskeletal system
Terms
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- HNP
- herniated nucleus pulposus
- arthr /o
- joint
- kyph / o
- humpback
- lord / o
-
curve
swayback - myel / o
-
bone marrow
spinal cord - scoli / o
-
crooked
bent - lumb / o
-
loins
lower back
- pelv / i
- pelvis
- pelv / o
- pelvis
- leiomy / o
-
smooth muscle
visceral - leiomyoma
- tumor of the smooth muscle
- muscul / o
- muscule
- my / o
- muscle
- malacia
- softening
- porosis
- porous
- closed fracture
- one that does not penetrate the skin
- open fracture
- one that penetrates the skin
- complicated fracture
- one in which a broken bone has injured an internal organ such as a rib piercing a lung
- comminuted fracture
- one in whcih the bone is crushed into pieces
- impacted fracture
- bone broken at one end and wedged into another bone
- incomplete fracture
- fracture is not all the way through the bone
- greenstick fracture
-
common in children
one side of bone is broken and other side is bent - colles fracture
- break at the lower end of the radius just above the wrist
- scoliosis
- curviture of the spine laterally
- kyphosis
- humpback
- lordosis
- swayback
- claudication
-
lameness
limping - exacerbatoin
- increase in severity of a disease or any of its symptoms
- phantom limb
- perceived sensation , following amputation of a limb that the limb still exists
- rickets
-
form of osteomalacia in children caused by vitamen D deficiency
- sprain
- tearing of ligament tissue that may be slight, moderate or complete
- strain
- to exert physical force in a manner that may result in injury, usually muscular
- reduction
- procedure that restores a bone to its normal position
- closed reduction
- fractured bones are realigned by manipulation rather than surgery
- open reduction
- treats bone fractures by placing the bones in their proper positions using surgery
- amputation
- partial or complete removal or an extremity due to trauma or circulatory disease
- arthrocentesis
- puncture of a joint space using a needle to remove accumulated fluid
- arthroscopy
- visual examination of the interior of a joint and its structures using a thin, flexible fiberoptic scope called an arthroscope that contains a magnifying lens, fiberoptic light, and miniature camera that projects images on a monitor
-
dexa
dxa - dual energy - x ray absorptiomentry
- djd
- degenerative joint disease
- ra
-
rheumatoid arthritis
right atrium - thr
- total hip replacement
- tkr
- total knee replacement