Chapter 15 Musculoskeletal system
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- Ewing Sarcoma
- Malignant bone tumor
- Exostosis
- Bony growth arising fromt he surface of bone
- Fracture
- Traumatic breaking of a bone
- Closed fracture
- bone is broken but there is no open wound in the skin
- Open (compound) fracture
- bone is broken and a fragment of bone protrudes through an open wound in the skin
- Pathological fracture
- is caused by disease of the bone such as a tumor or infection
- Crepitus
- crackling sound produced when ends of bones rub each other or rub against roughened cartilage
- Colles fracture
- near wrist joint at the lower end of the radius (wrist joint)
- comminuted fracture
- Bone splintered or crused into several pieces
- compression fracture
- bone is compressed
- greenstick fracture
- bone is artially broken
- impacted fracture
- fracture in which one fragment is driven firmly into the other
- reduction
- restoration of the bone to its nromal position
- closed reduction
- manipulative reduction without a surgical incision
- open reduction
- incision made into the fracture site
- cast
- applied to fractures to immobilize the injured bone
- ostoeogenic sarcoma
- malignant tumor arising from bone
- osteomalacia
- Softening of bone, with inadrquate amounts of mineral in the bone
- ostomyelitis
- Inflammation of the bone and bone marrow secondary to infection
- osteoporosis
- secrease in bone density thinning and weaking of bone
- talipes
- congenital abnormality of the hind foor involving the talus CLUBFOOT
- Articulation
- Joint
- bursa
- sac of fluid near a joint; promotes smooth sliding of one tissue against another
- ligament
- Connective tissue binding bones to other bones
- suture joint
- joint in which apposed surfaces are closely united; motion is minimal
- synovial cavity
- space between bones at the synovial joint contains synovial fluid
- synovial fluid
- viscous fluid within the synovial cavity
- synovial joint
- a freely movable joint
- synovial membrane
- memebrane lining the synovial cavity it produces synovial fluid
- tendon
- connective tissue that binds muscles to bones
- ankyl/o
- stiff
- arthr/o
- joint
- articul/o
- joint
- burs/o
- bursa
- chondr/o
- cartilage
- ligament/o
- ligament
- rheumat/o
- watery flow
- synov/o
- synovial membrane
- ten/o
- tendon
- tendin/o
- tendon
- -desis
- to bind
- -stenosis
- narrowing