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A&P Week 5 Quiz 4
Masterbooks Intro to A&P Volume 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fracture | a break in a bone |
| hematoma | a mass of clotted blood |
| callus | a cartilage-like layer of tissue that forms inside a fracture |
| immobilize | keeping the broken pieces of bone from shifting |
| arthroscope | a small telescope for looking into joints |
| reduction | putting fractured bones into alignment |
| axial skeleton | made up of the skull, vertebral column, and ribs |
| vertebral column | protects the spinal cord |
| appendicular skeleton | made up of the upper and lower limbs as well as the bones that connect them to the axial skeleton |
| pectoral girdle | connects the arms to the axial skeleton |
| pelvic girdle | connects the legs to the axial skeleton |
| flexion | a movement that decreases the angle between two parts of the body |
| extension | a movement that increases the angle between two parts of the body |
| abduction | movement away from the midline of the body |
| adduction | movement toward the midline of the body |
| articulate | connected by a joint |
| sutures | the joints that hold the cranial bones together |
| hyoid bone | the only bone not connected to another bone located in the neck between the jawbone and the thyroid gland |
| complete fracture | one where the bone breaks into two or more separate pieces |
| incomplete fracture | one in which the bone is cracked but not broken all the way through |
| simple fracture | one in which the bone is broken but does not break through the skin |
| compound fracture | one in which the fractured bone breaks through the skin |
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