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This is a condition of thinning and weakening of the bone.
What is osteoporosis?
This fractures is at an angle to the bone.
What is an oblique fracture?
This is an x-ray record of a joint.
What is an arthrogram?
This is the abbreviation for fracture.
What is Fx?
This is a replacement body part.
What is a prosthesis?
This is a condition of the softening of cartilage.
What is chondromalacia?
This is the most common fracture in children.
What is a greenstick fracture?
This is an instrument used to view inside a joint.
What is an arthroscope?
This is the abbreviation for a disease that results in degeneration of the bones and joints. It is also called a degenerative joint disease.
What is OA? (osteoarthritis)
This is the general term for an X-ray.
What is a radiograph?
This procedure involves insertion of a needle into the joint cavity to withdraw fluid.
What is arthrocentesis?
This is a fracture in which bone fragments are pushed into each other.
What is an impacted fracture?
This is a surgical procedure that cute into a bone.
What is an osteotomy?
This is the abbreviation for a ruptured disk.
What is HNP?
This is the realignment of bone fragments, either internally or externally.
What is reduction?
This procedure would be the removal of a bursa at the joint of the big toe.
What is a bunionectomy?
This is a common type of wrist fracture.
What is a Colles' fracture?
This is a surgical procedure involving intentional breaking of a bone to correct a deformitiy.
What is osteoclasia?
This is the abbreviation for the surgical reconstruction of the hip.
What is THA or THR?
This procedure fuses bones together to stabilize a joint.
What is arthrodesis?
This is the removal of the vertebral posterior arch to correct problems and pain caused by compression of spinal nerve.
What is a laminectomy?
This is a fracture involving loss of height of the vertebral body.
What is a compression fractured?
This test measures bone density using x-ray for the purpose of detecting osteoporosis.
What is a dual-energy x-ray obsorptiometry or a DXA DEXA?
This is the abbreviation for a an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain associated with arthritis and other joint conditions.
What is a NSAID?
This is a term for an incomplete dislocation.
What is subluxation?