Term | Definition |
Cartilage | Non vascular, firm connective tissue found mostly in joints |
Chiropractic | Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system |
chiropractor | practitioner of chiropractic |
detoxification(same as Detoxication) | removing poison from a tissue or substance |
Ligament | Band of fibrous tissue connecting two structures |
musscle | a tissue consisting of cells that can contract |
musculoskeletal | Pertaining to the muscles and the bony skeleton. |
orthopedic | Pertaining to the correction and cure of deformities and diseases of the musculosketal system; originally most of the deformities treated were in children |
orthopedist | Specialist in orthopedics |
osteopath | Practitioner of osteopathy |
Osteopathy | Medical practice based on maintaining the balance of the body. |
tendon | |
Cortex | outer portion of an organ such as a bone. |
cortical(adj) | Pertaining to a cortex |
diaphysis | the shaft of the long bone |
epiphysis | Expanded area at the proximal and distal ends of a long bone to provide increased surface area for attachment of ligaments and tendons. |
Epiphysial | pertaining to epiphysis |
Haverian canals | vascular canals in bone |
Marrow | Fatty, blood forming tissue in the cavities of the long bones |
Medulla | Central portion of a structure surrounded by cortex. |
Medullary(adj) | pertaining to the medulla |
perosteum | Strong membrane surrounding a bone |
Periosteal(adj) | pertaining to periosteum |
achondroplasia | Condition with abnormal early conversion of cartilage into bone leading to dwarfism |
osteogensis imperfecta | Inherited condition when bone formation is incomplete leading to fragile easily broken bones. |
osteomalacia | soft flexible bones lacking in calicum(rickets) |
ostepmyelitis | inflammation of bone tissue |
osteopenia | decreased calcification of bone |
osteoporosis | Condition in which he bones become more porous,brittle and fragile and more likely to fracture. |
rickets | disease caused by vitamin D deficiency producing soft and flexible bones |
Sarcoma | Malignant tumor originating in connective tissue |
osteogenic sarcoma | Malignant tumor originating in bone producing cells |
alignment | Having structure inits correct position relative to others |
comminuted | a fracture in which the bone is broken down into pieces |
malunion | When the two bony ends fail to heal together correctly. |
nonunion | total failure of healing fracture. |
osteoblast | bone-forming cell |
osteocyte | bone maintaining cell |
Pathologic fracture | Fracture occurring at a site already weakened by a disease process, such as cancer. |
reduction | restore a structure to its normal postion |
traction | Pulling or dragging force |
closed fracture(simple fracture) | a bone is broken but skin is not |
open fracture(compound fracture) | a fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin or a wound extends to the site of the fracture. |
displaced fracture | the fractured bone parts are out of line |
complete fracture | a bone is broken into at least two fragments |
incomplete fracture | the fracture does not extend completely across the bone. it can be hairline, as in stress fracture in the foot, when there is no seperation of the two fragments |
transverse | the fracture is at right angles to the long axis of the bone |
impacted | the fracture consists of one bone fragment driven into another, resulting in shortening of a limb |
spiral | the fracture spirals around the long axis of the bone |
oblique | The fracture runs across the long axis of the bone. |
linear | the fracture runs parallel to the long axis of the bone |
green stick fracture | this is partial fracture. One side breaks and the other bends. |
compression | the fracture occurs in a vertebra from trauma or pathology leading to the vertebra being crushed |
stress | this is a fatigue fracture caused by repetitive, local stress on a bone, as occurs in marching or running. |
cervical | Pertaining to the neck region |
coccyx | small tailbone at the lowest end of the vertebral column |
kyphosis | a normal posterior curve of the spine that can be exaggerated in disease |
kyphotic | Pertaining to kyphosis |
lumbar | the region of the back and sides between the ribs and pelvis. |
sacrum | segment of the vertebral column that forms part of the pelvis |
sacral(adj) | pertaining to or in the neighborhood of the sacrum |
scoliosis | an abnormal lateral curvature of the vertebral column |
scoliotic | pertaining to or suffering from scoliosis |
spine | vertebral column or a short projection from a bone |
spinal | pertaining to the spine |
vertebra
vertebrae(pl)
vertebral(adj) | one of the bones of the spinal column |
whiplash | syptoms caused by sudden uncontrolled extension and flexion of the neck often in an automobile accident. |