Medical Terminology
The incision of this means myotomy.
What is muscle?
The atlas supports the skull and this structure.
What is the first cervical vertebra?
This is a malignant tumor or connective tissue.
What is sarcoma?
Responsible for pointing the toes toward the head.
What is dorsiflexion?
A treatment for rheumatoid arthritis by inhibiting activity within the immune system to prevent further disease progression.
What are gold shots?
This is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spin.
What is scoliosis?
This is the function of a tendon.
What is attach muscle to bone?
This occurs in children who do not have availability of milk.
What is rickets?
I am the grating sound made by movement of bone ends rubbing together, indicating a fracture of joint destruction.
Who is crepitation?
Protective shell molded to protect and facilitate bone immobility for healing.
What is a cast, or casting?
This is an action that indicates movement away from the midline.
What is abduction?
This is a physician who specializes in patients with cancer.
What is an Oncologist?
This is related to decrease in bone density often from loss of estrogen.
What is osteoporosis?
This is complete or partial dislocation.
What is subluxation?
Puncture of a joint space with a needle to remove fluid.
What is arthrocentesis?
This is eversion of the foot.
What is moving the foot outward?
This means wasting away of the muscle (lack of muscle development).
What is atrophy?
This is loss of muscle mass related to nonuse or disease (spinal cord injury).
What is atrophy?
This is a congenital deformity of the foot; also call clubfoot.
What is talipes equinovarus?
Treatments include proper footwear, wearing padding to relieve pressure, avoiding high heels and medication for pain or swelling. Surgery may be needed.
What is a bunion?
This is a disease in children, inefficient mineralization of bone-forming tissue, results in deformities.
What is rickets?
The body's ability to maintain posture through a continual partial contraction of skeletal muscles.
What is Tonicity?
This is a benign saclike swelling or fluid filled cyst.
What is a ganglion cyst?
This is a forward curvature of the lumbar region of the vertebral column, leading to sway-back posture.
What is lordosis?
A fracture of a bone where the bone is broken but there is little to no surrounding tissue damage and no open wound.
What is a closed fracture?