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HW CH 10D
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| malacia | softening |
| porosis | porous |
| sarcoma | malignant tumor of connective tissue |
| a | without, not |
| dys | bad, painful, difficult |
| syn | union together joined |
| orthopedics | branch of medicine concerned with prevention. diagnosis care and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders |
| orthopedist | physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment if musculoskeletal disorders |
| rheumatologist | physician who specializes in treating joint diseases |
| doctor of osteopathy (DO) | maintains that good health requires proper alignment of bones muscles and ligament and nerves |
| fracture | a break or crack in a bone |
| open fracture | end of broken bone pierces through the flesh |
| compound fracture | end of broken bone pierces through the flesh |
| pathological fracture | fractures usually result from trauma caused by disease |
| reduction | restoring the bone to its normal position |
| closed reduction | the practitioner repairs the fracture without a surgical incision of the of the area by aligning the bone through manual manipulation of traction |
| open reduction | realignment of two broken ends of the bone takes place under direct observation by exposing the fracture using surgery |
| internal fixation device | stabilize the bone to maintain alignment while healing takes place |
| arthritis | inflammation of a joint |
| rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | systemic disease characterized by inflammatory changes in joints and their related structures results in crippling deformities |
| exacerbations | flare ups |
| NSAIDs | physical therapy and orthopedic measures help treat less severe cases |
| osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease (DJD)) | progressive disease where the protective cartilage at the end of the bones wears down |
| crepitation | crackling sound |
| bone spur or osteophyte | new bone growth |
| Heberden nodes | the smallest joints at the end of the fingers are affected by spur formation that leads to the classic bony enlargement |
| muscular dystrophy | progressive weakness of skeletal muscles and loss of muscle mass |
| primary bone cancer | malignancies that affect bone are those that arises directly from bone |
| secondary bone cancer | arise in another region of the body and spread to bone |
| metasize | spread |
| sacromas | malignancies that originate from bone fat muscle cartilage bone marrow and cells of the osteosarcoma and Ewing sacroma |
| fibrosarcoma | develops in cartilage and affects the pelvis upper legs and shoulders |
| osteosarcoma | develops from bone tissue and generally affects the knees upper arms and upper legs |
| Ewing sarcoma | develops from primitive nerve cells in bone marrow |
| bunion (hallux valgus) | deformity in which the great toe is angled laterally toward the other toes |
| carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) | painful condition resulting from compression of the median nerve within the carpal tunnel (wrist canal through which the flexor tendons and the median nerve pass) |
| claudication | lameness, limping |
| contracture | fibrosis of connective tissue in the skin fascia muscle of joint capsule that prevents normal mobility of the related tissue or joint |
| crepitation | dry grating sound or sensation caused by the bone ends rubbing together indication a fracture or joint destruction |
| ganglion cyst | fluid filled tumor that commonly develops along the tendons or joint of the wrists or hands but may also appear in the feet |
| gout | joint inflammation caused by the uric acid crystal deposits in the joint space |
| herniated disk | rupture of a vertebral disks center (nucleus pulposus) through its outer edge causing pain numbness or weakness in one or both legs also called slipped disc or herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) |
| hypotonia | loss of muscle or a diminished resistance to passive stretching |
| myasthenia gravis | chronic progressive disorder characterized by muscle weakness and droopiness especially in the eyes face throat and limbs |
| osteomyelitis | inflammation of the bone and bone marrow and the soft tissue that surrounds the bone |
| osteoporosis | loss of calcium and bone tissue causing the bones to become porous brittle and easily fractured most commonly seen in postmenopausal women |
| Paget disease | chronic inflammation of bones resulting in thickening and softening of bones that can occur in any bone most commonly affects the long bones of the legs the lower spine the pelvis and the skull |
| phantom limb | perceived sensation following amputation of a limb that the limb still exist |
| rickets | form of osteomalacia in children caused by vitamin D deficiency ; also called rachitis |
| spinal curvatures | any persistent abnormal deviation of the vertebral column from its normal position that causes an abnormal spinal curvatures |
| scoliosis | abnormal lateral curvature of the spine either to the right or left also called c shaped curvature |
| kyphosis | abnormal curvature of the upper portion of the spine also known as humpback or hunchback |
| lordosis | abnormal inward curvature of a portion of the lower part of the spine also known as swayback |
| spondylolisthesis | any slipping (subluxation) of a vertebra from its normal position in relationship to one beneath it |
| spondylosis | degeneration of the cervical thoracic and lumbar vertebrae and related tissue |
| sprain and strain | overstretching or tearing of ligaments (sprain) or tendon (strain) |
| subluxation | partial or incomplete dislocation of one or more vertebrae |
| talipes equinovarus | congenital deformity of one or both feet in which the foot is pulled downward and laterally to the side also called clubfoot |
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