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A group of diseases that causes inflammation of the joints
What is Arthritis?
The ends of bones
What is the Epiphysis?
The skeleton that forms that main trunk of the body and is composed of the skull, spinal column, ribs, and breastbone
What is the axial skeleton?
The skeleton that forms the extremities and is composed of the shoulder girdle, arm bones, pelvic girdle, and leg bones
What is the appendicular skeleton?
A tough membrane that covers the outside of bone
What is the periosteum?
There are two of these, commonly known as the shoulder blades
What are scapulas?
Type of joint that is freely movable
What are diarthrosis joints?
What type of joints are immovable. Examples are the suture joints of the cranium
What are synarthriosis joints?
These joints are slightly movable such as the attachment of the ribs to the thoracic vertebrae
What are amphiarthrosis joints?
Long shaft of a bone
What is the diaphysis?
Areas where two or more bones join?
These bands help hold long bones together at joints
What are ligaments?
Medical term for breastbone
What is the sternum?
What are phalanges?
Medical term for the kneecap
What is the patella?
Abnormal curvature of the spine that causes "swayback"
What is Lordosis?
Herniated or slipped disk that causes pressure on the spinal nerve
What is a ruptured disk?
Inflammation of the bursae which are small, fluid-filled sacs surrounding the joints
What is bursitis?
This type of fracture is when the bone breaks and protrudes through the skin
What is a compound or open fracture?
What type of fracture is described as when the bone twists, which results in one or more breaks
What is a spiral fracture?
A bone is forcibly displaced from a joint
What is a dislocation?
Twisting acton that tears the ligaments at a joint
What is a sprain?
Side to side curvature of the spine
What is scoliosis?
Bone inflammation caused by a pathogen. An abscess usually forms within the bone.
What is osteomyelitis?
This disease causes brittle bones using from a lack of estrogen, calcium & phosphate.
What is Osteoporosis?