Module 4/Chapter 26/Musculoskeletal System/Pathology of the Musculoskeletal Syst
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- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Inflammation of vertebrae progressing to stiffening back or joint
- Crepitation
- Grinding sound on movement of ends of a broken bone
- Exostosis
- Bony outgrowth arising from the surface of a bone
- Sudden breaking of a bone. Name 2.
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1)simple fracture
2)compound fracture - Simple fracture
- Bone is broken without rupture of skin.
- Compound fracture
- Broken bone with protrusion through skin
- fracture
- Sudden breaking of a bone
- Colles' fracture
- Break at distal end of radius (wrist)
- comminuted fracture
- Bone is splintered or crushed
- Compression fracture
- Bone is compressed (fracture of vertebra by pressure)
- Greenstick fracture
- Bone is partially broken/bent in children
- impacted fracture
- One fragment is driven firmly into the other.
- Genu Valgum
- Knock-knee
- Genu Varus
- Bowleg
- Kyphosis
- Humpback, posterior curvature of the thoracic spine
- Lordosis
- Swayback, anterior curvature in the lumbar spine
- Lumbago
- Low back pain
- Osteodystrophy
- Painful development of bone -- growing pains
- Osteomalacia
- Softening of bone, rickets in children, due to vitamin D deficiency
- Osteomyelitis
- Inflammation of bone and bone marrow.
- Osteoporosis
- Loss of bony tissue and decreased mass of bone
- Osteotome
- Surgical chisel designed to cut bone
- Scoliosis
- Lateral curvature of the spine (S-shaped)
- Sequestrum
- Segment of dead bone that has separated from the bone.
- Talipes
- Any of several deformities of the foot (clubfoot)