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Structure and Function
Condition/Finding
100
bending a limb at a joint
What is flexion?
100
Moving a limb away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
100
A point in the body where two or more bones meet.
What is joint?
100
An exaggerated thoracic dorsal curve that causes asymmetry between the two sides of the posterior thorax.
What is kyphosis?
200
Upward flexion of the ankle so the superior aspect of the foot moves toward the shin.
What is dorsiflexion?
200
Moving a limb toward the midline of the body.
What is adduction?
200
Bands of flexible tissue that attach bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
200
An exaggerated lumbar curve that compensates for some conditions.
What is lordosis?
300
Movement (extension) of the ankle by pointing the toes downward.
What is plantar flexion?
300
Moving the sole of the foot outward at the ankle.
What is eversion?
300
Tough fibrous bands that attach either muscle to muscle, or muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
300
Partial dislocation of a joint.
What is subluxation?
400
Movement that involves touching the thumb of a hand to any of the fingertips of the same hand.
What is opposition?
400
Moving the sole of the foot inward at the ankle.
What is inversion?
400
These joints allow flexion and extension only.
What is a hinge joint?
400
Lateral curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?
500
Turing a bone around its own long axis.
What is rotation?
500
Straightening a limb at the joint.
What is extension?
500
These joints allow rotation of bone around its own long axis or against another bone.
What is a pivot joint?
500
A technique to detect fluid or floating body structures by displacing body fluid and palpating the return impact on the body structure.
What is ballottement?
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