front 1 Cartilage | back 1 A type of dense connective tissue, elastic but strong. |
front 2 Chondral means: | back 2 pertaining to cartilage. |
front 3 Muscle | back 3 composed of cells or fibers, contract and allow movement. cardiac, smooth, and skeletal. |
front 4 Fascia, a term used for: | back 4 fibrous membrane that covers, supports, and separates muscles. |
front 5 Tendons: | back 5 bands of strong fibrous tissue. Connects muscles to bone. |
front 6 ten/o , tend/o | back 6 tendon |
front 7 Articulation/joint | back 7 place of union between two or more bones. |
front 8 Articular means: | back 8 pertaining to a joint. |
front 9 Synovial Joints: | back 9 joints that have cavities between articulating bones. ex. elbow, knee, ankle, shoulder, and hip bones |
front 10 Bursae | back 10 sacs of fluid located in areas of friction |
front 11 4 kinds of joint movement: | back 11 Extension, flexion, rotation, and circumduction. |
front 12 Extension | back 12 straightens a limb |
front 13 Flexion | back 13 bends a limb |
front 14 Rotation | back 14 movement of bone around its own axis. |
front 15 Circumduction | back 15 circular movement of a limb at the far end. |
front 16 Ligaments | back 16 strong bands of fibrous connective tissue that connect bone or cartilage. |
front 17 Myasthenia gravis | back 17 Fatigue and muscle weakness resulting from a defect in the conduction of nerve impulses. |
front 18 Dislocation | back 18 displacement of a bone from a joint |
front 19 Fracture | back 19 breaking of bone |
front 20 simple fracture | back 20 A bone does not puncture skin |
front 21 compound fracture | back 21 bone has punctured skin |
front 22 Sprain | back 22 injury to a joint that causes pain and disability. |
front 23 Strain | back 23 Excessive use of a part of the body to the point of injury. |
front 24 Myocele | back 24 Fascial hernia. A condition in which a muscle protrudes through its fascial covering |
front 25 Tendinitis | back 25 inflammation of a tendon. |
front 26 Herniated disc | back 26 If the disks between the vertebrae become diseased, they sometimes rupture, which can then press on the spinal cord and cause pain. |
front 27 paraplegia | back 27 paralysis of the lower portion of the body and legs. Caused by injury in the lumbar region. |
front 28 Quadriplegia, tetraplegia | back 28 paralysis of the arms and legs |
front 29 Paresis | back 29 motor weakness/ partial paralysis. |
front 30 Cellulitis | back 30 spreading inflammation of the deep subcutaneous tissues |
front 31 Osteitis | back 31 is inflammation of a bone and may be caused by infection, degeneration, or trauma |
front 32 Osteochondritis | back 32 is inflammation of bone and cartilage and tends to attack the bone-forming (ossification) centers of the skeleton. |
front 33 Myelitis | back 33 inflammation of either the spinal cord or the bone marrow |
front 34 osteomyelitis | back 34 inflammation of bone and the bone marrow. |
front 35 Myel encephalitis | back 35 means inflammation of the brain and spinal cord |
front 36 Metabolic disorders | back 36 loss of homeostasis in the body |
front 37 Osteoporosis | back 37 metabolic disease in which reduced bone mass leads to subsequent fractures, |
front 38 Osteitis deformans (Paget disease) | back 38 a skeletal disease of elderly persons characterized by chronic bone inflammation. This results in the thickening and softening of bones and in the bowing of the long bones. |
front 39 Osteomalacia | back 39 a reversible skeletal disorder characterized by a defect in the mineralization of bone. most common cause is a deficiency of vit. D |
front 40 Muscular dystrophy | back 40 a group of inherited diseases characterized by weakness, atrophy
(wasting) of muscle without involvement of the nervous system, and
progressive disability and loss of strength. |
front 41 craniocele | back 41 hernial protrusion of the brain through a defect in the skull. |
front 42 Arthritis | back 42 any inflammatory condition of the joints characterized by pain, heat, swelling, redness, and limitation of movement. |
front 43 Osteoarthritis | back 43 DJD, a form of arthritis in which one or many joints undergo degenerative changes, particularly loss of articular cartilage |
front 44 Rheumatoid arthritis | back 44 2nd most comm. It is a chronic, systemic (pertaining to the whole body) disease that often results in joint deformities, particularly of the hands and feet |
front 45 Reduction | back 45 pulling the broken fragments into alignment. |
front 46 closed reduction | back 46 manipulation without surgery |
front 47 arthroplasty. | back 47 . Any surgical reconstruction or replacement of a joint |