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MT Ch 10D
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| malacia | softening |
| porosis | porous |
| sarcoma | malignant tumor of connective tissue |
| a- | without |
| dys- | bad, painful |
| syn- | union, together |
| orthopedics | branch of medicine concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases |
| orthopedist | physicians who use medical, physical, and surgical methods to restore function that has been lost as a result of musculoskeletal injury or diseasse |
| rheumatologist | joints |
| Doctor or Osteopathy (DO) | maintains that good health requires proper alignment of bones, muscles, ligaments, and nerves |
| fracture | break or crack in bone |
| open fracture | when bone pierces through the flessh |
| pathological fracture | fracture caused by disease |
| closed reduction | repairs fracture without surgical incision |
| open reduction | repairs fracture using surgical incision |
| internal fixatoin devices | pins, screws, wires, and nails |
| arthiriss | general term for many joint diseases, inflammation of a joint |
| rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | disease characterized by inflammatory changes in joints and their related structures |
| exacerbations | flare ups |
| osteoarhritiss | aka DJD, most common, protective cartilage at the end of the bones wears down |
| crepitation | crackling sound |
| bone spur or osteophyte | new bone growth |
| heberden nodes | bony enlargement |
| muscular dystrophy | progressive weakness of the skeletal muscles and loss of muscle mass |
| primary bone cancer | malignancies that arise directly from the bone |
| matestasize | spread |
| secondary bone cancer | bone cancers that spread to the bone |
| sarcoma | malignancies that originate from bone, fat, muscle, cartilage, bone marrow and cells |
| fibrosarcoma | developed in cartilage and generally 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, affects the shaft of long bones |
| bunion | deformity in which the great tow I angled laterally toward the other toes |
| carpal tunnel | compression of the median nerve within the carpal tunnel |
| claudication | lameness, limping |
| contracture | fibrosis of connective tissue in the skin, fascia, muscle, or joint capsule that prevents normal mobility |
| crepitation | dry, grating sound |
| ganglion cyst | fluid filled tumor that commonly develops along the tendons or joint of the wrists or hands |
| gout | joint inflammation caused by uric acid crystal deposits in joint space |
| herniated disk | rupture of a vertebral disk's center through it edge |
| hyptonia | loss of muscle tone or a diminished resistance to passive stretching |
| myasthenia | muscle weakness and droopiness |
| ossteomyelitis | inflammation of the bone and bone marrow and the soft tissue that surrounds the bone |
| esteoporosis | porous bones |
| Paget disease | chronic inflammation of bones |
| phantom limb | perceived sensation that a limb still exists after amputation |
| rickes | osteomalacia in children caused by vitamin d deficiency |
| spinal curvatures | any persistent, abnormal deviation of the vertebral column |
| scoliosis | abnormal lateral curvature of the spine |
| kyphosis | hunchback |
| lordosis | swayback |
| spondylolisthesis | slipping of a vertebral from its normal position |
| spondylosis | degeneration of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae and related tissues |
| sprain and strain | overstretching or tearing of ligaments (sprain) or muscle or tendon (strain) |
| sublixation | 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 t he side, aka clubfoot |
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