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SKEL PATH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| SHAFT OF ANY LONG BONE? | DIAPHYSIS |
| END OF A LONG BONE? | EPIPHYSIS |
| TYPE OF CELLS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DIAMETER GROWTH OF BONES? | OSTEOCLASTS |
| BENIGN PROJECTION OF BONE WITH A CARTILAGE-LIKE CAP OCCURRING AROUND THE KNEE IN CHILDREN OF ADOLESCENTS? | OSTEOCHONDROMA |
| WHICH IS AN EXAMPLE OF A MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR? OSTEOGENIC, CHONDROSARCOMA, EWING'S SARCOMA | ALL THREE |
| FORM OF NONINFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS CHARACTERIZED BY OSTEOPOROSIS, SOFT TISSUE SWELLING AND EROSION OF THE METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINTS AND ULNAR STYLOID PROCESS? | RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS |
| EXTREMELY COMMON FORM OF ARTHRITIS THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY LOSS OF JOINT CARTILAGE AND REACTIVE NEW BONE GROWTH AND THAT IS PART OF THE NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR OF AGING? | OSTEOARTHRITIS |
| INFLAMMATION OF SMALL FLUID-FILLED SACS THAT ARE LOCATED AROUND JOINTS THAT REDUCE FRICTION? | BURSITIS |
| WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE IS THE SKIN BROKEN? | COMPOUND |
| WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE CONSISTS OF MORE THAT TWO FRAGMENTS | COMMINUTED |
| WHAT TERM APPLIES TO THE NEW CALCIUM DEPOSITS THAT UNITE FRACTURE SITES? | CALLUS |
| WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE OCCURS IN BONE WEAKENED BY SOME PREEXISTING CONDITION, SUCH AS A METASTATIC LESION? | PATHOLOGIC |
| TYPE OF FRACTURE THAT CAN OCCUR FROM FALLING ON THE OUT STRETCHED HAND AND INVOLVES THE DISTAL PORTION OF THE RADIUS? | COLLES |
| TERM FOR A FRACTURE INVOLVING BOTH MALLEOLI? | POTT'S |
| FRACTURE RESULTING FROM HYPEREXTENSION OF THE HEAD ON THE NECK? | HANGMAN'S |
| WHAT ARE OF THE SPINE DOES A CLAY SHOVER'S FRACTURE INVOLVE? | LOWER CERVICAL AND UPPER THORACIC |
| WHAT MEDICAL TERM REFERS TO A CLEFT IN THE PARS INTERARTICULARIS COMMONLY INVOLVING THE 5TH LUMBAR VERTEBRAE? | SPONDYLOLYSIS |
| PATHOLOGIC CONDITION SOMETIMES OCCURS AFTER TRAUMA, CAUSING AN INTERRUPTED BLOOD SUPPLY TO A BONE? | ISCHEMIC NECROSIS |
| COVERS OUT SURFACE OF BONES, CONTAINS ARTERIES AND NUTRIENT VESSELS? | PERIOSTEUM |
| HOLLOW AREA WITHIN THE DIAPHYSIS, FILLED WITH MARROW | MEDULLARY CAVITY |
| OUTER LAYER OF BONE? | COMPACT BONE |
| INSIDE THE MEDULLARY CAVITY IS CALLED? | CANCELLOUS BONE/TRABECULAE |
| CELLS THAT REMOVE BONE/RESORPTION? | OSTEOCLASTS |
| "MARBLE BONE", BONE MARROW DOES NOT FORM PROPERLY LEADING TO BRITTLE BONES, SYMMETRIC, GENERALIZED INCREASED BONE DENSITY | OSTEOPETROSIS |
| "BRITTLE BONE", SCLERAS CAN TURN BLUE, BONE DENSITY LOSS, MULTIPLE HEALED FX, DEFORMED BONES | OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA |
| CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS IN HANDS AND FEET, BILATERAL, IRREGULAR JOINT EDGES, ANKYLOSIS? | RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS |
| "BABMOO SPINE" FORM OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, AFFECTS THE SPINE, LOSS OF DISK/JOINT SPACE | ANKYLOSING SPONDYLTIS |
| COMMON DISORDER, OCCURS WITH AGE FROM REPEATED STRESS TO JOINTS, LOSS OF JOINT CARTILAGE, WEIGHT BEARING JOINTS? | OSTEOARTHRITIS |
| "MOTH-EATEN" APPEARANCE, INFLAMMATION OF THE BONE MARROW, BEGINS AS BONE ABSCESS, NOT SEEN FOR 10 DAYS AFTER ONSET, SOFT TISSUE SWELLING, LUCENCIES. | OSTEOMYELITIS |
| GENERALIZED OR LOCALIZED, DISRUPTION OF NORMAL RESORPTION/FORMATION, CAUSED BY AGE AND HORMONAL CHANGES, DECREASED DENSITY IN ENTIRE STRUCTURE, "PICTURE FRAME" IN VERTEBRAL BODIES? | OSTEOPOROSIS |
| "SOFTENING" OF THE BONES, LOSS OF BONE DENSITY, "BOWING OF VERTEBRAL BODIES AND PELVIS? | OSTEOMALACIA |
| "COTTON WOOL", METABOLIC DISEASE, INVOLVES MULTIPLE BONES, LUCENCIES IN DESTRUCTIVE PHASE | PAGET'S |
| BEGINS IN CHILDHOOD, PROLIFERATION OF FIBROUS TISSUE IN MEDULLARY CAVITY, "GROUND GLASS" OR "SOAP BUBBLE" APPEARANCE? | FIBROUS DYSPLASIA |
| BENIGN BONE TUMOR THAT OCCURS IN CHILDREN AND TEENS, MORE OFTEN NEAR THE KNEE | OSTEOCHONDROMA |
| BENIGN BONE TUMOR OF MEDULLARY CANAL, MORE FREQUENT IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS | ENDOCHONDROMA |
| BENIGN BONE TUMOR OCCURS IN YOUNG ADULTS, AFFECTS DISTAL FEMUR, BUBBLE APPREARANCE | GIANT CELL TUMOR |
| ARE OSTEOGENIC SARCOMAS MALIGNANT OF BENIGN? | MALIGNANT |
| TYPE OF MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR THAT IS WIDESPREAD PRIMARY CANCER OF BONE | MULTIPLE MYELOMA |
| MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR SHOWS DESTRUCTIVE SCLEROTIC LESIONS, SOFT TISSUE MASS, REACTIVE NEW BONE FORMATION, "SUNBURST" | OSTEOGENIC SARCOMA |
| TYPE OF MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR APPEARS AS MULTIPLE "PUNCH-OUT" LYTIC LESIONS | MULTIPLE MYELOMA |
| MOST COMMON BONE MALIGNANCY? | BONE METS |
| BONE METS ARE USUALLY FROM WHERE? | BREAST, LUNG, PROSTATE, KIDNEY, THYROID, USUALLY SPREAD VIA BLOODSTREAM OR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM |
| TYPE OF COMMINUTED FRACTURE OF THE RING OF THE ATLAS? | JEFFERSON FRACTURE |
| AVULSION FRACTURE OF THE SPINOUS PROCESS? | CLAY SHOVELER'S FRACTURE |
| VERTEBRAL ABNORMALITY IN WHICH THERE IS A CLEFT IN THE PARS INTERARTICLARIS? | SPONDYLOSIS |
| FORWARD DISPLACEMENT OF AFFECTED VERTEBRAE? | SPONDYLOLISTHESIS |