Bone Bascis
These three types of bone cells work together during bone remodeling.
What are osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts?
This part of the skeleton includes the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.
What is the axial skeleton?
In this type of fracture, the bone breaks through the skin.
What is a compound or open fracture?
Sutures are this type of joint found between cranial bones.
What are immovable or stationary joints?
These are two critical things to monitor when a patient has a cast.
What are monitoring color, sensation and or movement?
This type of bone cell breaks down bone matrix during remodeling.
What are osteoclasts?
These bones make up the thoracic cage.
What are the ribs, sternum, and thoracic vertebrae?
This type of fracture occurs when bone bends and breaks on one side.
What is a greenstick fracture?
These discs of cartilage act as shock absorbers between vertebrae.
What are intervertebral discs?
This condition is characterized by decreased bone density and increased bone fragility.
What is osteoporosis?
This type of bone cell builds new bone by secreting bone matrix.
What are osteoblasts?
The vertebral column is divided into this many regions.
What are five regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal?
This is a fracture in which the bone splinters into multiple pieces.
What is a comminuted fracture?
This autoimmune disease attacks the synovium of joints.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
Name three hip precautions after hip replacement surgery.
What are not flexing the hip beyond , not crossing the legs, and not internally rotating the affected leg?
This is the continuous process of removing old bone and replacing it with new bone.
What is bone remodeling?
This unique U-shaped bone in the neck does not directly articulate with another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
These are four signs of a suspected hip fracture.
What are severe hip pain, inability to bear weight, a shortened leg, and a leg turned outward?
This is the most common type of arthritis and is caused by wear and tear of cartilage.
What is osteoarthritis?
Pain felt in an amputated limb is called this and is real.
What is phantom pain?
These two nutrients, combined with weight-bearing exercise, are essential for skeletal health.
What are calcium and vitamin D?
What is the primary function of the pectoral girdle?
What is they attach the lower extremities to the axial skeleton?
ORIF stands for this surgical procedure.
What is Open Reduction Internal Fixation?
A ruptured intervertebral disc can cause this complication involving the leg.
What are nerve compression and pain radiating down the leg, or sciatica?
The RICE protocol stands for these four interventions.
What are rest, ice, compression, and elevation?