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Question | Answer |
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what is calcaneum? | heal bone |
what are dactals? | fingers or toes |
myel/o | bone marrow |
kyph/o | humpback |
ankel/o | stiffness |
fibr/o | fiber |
-syn | union |
-porosis | porous |
E.M.G | electromyography |
what is sublaxation? | partial or incomplete dislocation |
O.R.I.F. | open reduction internal fracture |
what is claudication? | lameness, limping |
A.K. | above the knee |
what is exacerbation? | increase in severity of a disease or any of its symptoms |
T.H.A. | total hip arthroplasty |
what is a prothesis? | replacement by an artificial part |
what does a sprain involve? | a ligament |
what does a strain involve? | a muscle |
C1 | cervical vertebrae |
D.J.D. | degenerative joint disease |
ischi/o | ishium lower part of the hip bone |
metacarp/o | hand bone |
phalang/o | bones of the fingers or toes |
spondyl/o | verterbrae |
C.A. | calcium |
-dys | painful/bad |
-desis | binding of a bone or joint |
-clasia | surgical fracture |
-physis | growth |
-blast | embryonic cell |
hypotonia | loss of muscular tone |
D.E.X.A. | dual energy x-ray absorptiometry |
B.E. | barium enema |
I.V. | intravenous |
R.O.M. | range of motion |
M.S. | musculoskeletal |
I.M. | intramuscular |
M.G. | myathenia gravis |
M.R.I. | magnetic resonance imaging |
T.R.A.M. | transverse rectus abdominis muscle |
T.K.R. | total knee replacement |
Fx | fracture |
oste/o | bone |
lamin/o | lamina |
rhabd/o | rod shaped |
lord/o | curve |
cephl/o | head |
-malacia | softening |
anklyosis | results in immobility and stiffness of a joint from the result of trauma, surgery, or a disease |
spondylosis | degeneration of verterbrae |
sequestrum | seperation of dead bone |