Med. Vocab./Leonard C14 - Skeleton Pathology
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- strain
- damage, usually muscular, from excessive physical effort
- sprain
- traumatic injury to tendons, ligaments, or muscles around a joint
- fracture
- a break in a bone
- compound (open) fracture
- bone is fractured and protrudes through the skin
- closed fracture
- bone is fractured but does not protrude through the skin
- greenstick fracture
- an incomplete fracture, fracture only on one side
- impacted fracture
- one bone fragment is driven into another fragment
- comminuted fracture
- a type of fracture where many bone fragments are present
- displaced transverse fracture
- a fracture at right angles to the axis of the bone
- displaced spiral fracture
- a fracture where the bone is twisted apart
- dislocation
- displacement of a bone from a joint
- spina bifida
- congenital abnormality characterized by defective closure of vertebrae
- scoliosis
- lateral curvature of the spine
- lordosis
- abnormal concave curvature of the lumbar spine
- kyphosis
- abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine
- degenerative joint disease (DJD)
- osteoarthritis, loss of articular cartilage
- rheumatoid arthritis
- chronic, progressive, systemic inflammation of primarily synovial joints
- ankylosing spondylitis
- inflammation and stiffening of the spine
- spondylosyndesis
- spinal fusion
- arthroclasia
- artificial breaking of an ankylosed joint
- reduction
- any process to restore a fracture
- closed reduction
- process where a fracture is restored without surgery
- open reduction
- process where a fracture is restored by surgery