Integumentary System
Which layer of the skin houses the accessory structures?
What is the dermis?
How many tarsal bones are in one foot?
What are 7 tarsal bones?
What foramen resides in the occipital bone?
What is the shallow depression located on the antero-medial surface of the upper ilium?
What is the illiac fossa?
A 40-year-old man who works as a warehouse manager complains of a sharp, shooting pain that starts in his lower back and radiates down the back of his left leg, extending to his foot. The pain worsens when he bends over or sits for long periods. He also reports tingling and some numbness along the lateral side of his calf and top of his foot.
What is likely the cause of the man's symptoms?
What is a herniated intervertebral disc?
What are the individual layers of the epidermis formally known as?
What are strata?
What are the three fossae of the scapulae?
What are the subscapular, infraspinous, and supraspinous fossae?
Which bone forms the superior wall of the orbit?
What is the frontal bone?
What does the lateral end of the clavicle articulate with?
What is the acromion process?
A 21-year-old man experienced immediate swelling and pain after falling on an outstretched hand while inline skating. Physical findings such as bony tenderness over the distal forearm.
What is likely the cause of the man's symptoms?
What is a fractured radius?
What is the deep layer of the dermis?
What is the reticular dermis?
Which indentation on the posterior margin of lower ilium allows for the passage of sciatic nerve?
What is the greater sciatic notch?
Which bone inferiorly forms the anterior 3/4 of the hard palate?
What is the maxilla?
What joins the zygomatic process and the temporal process?
What is the zygomaticotemporal suture?
A 43-year-old male was involved in a road traffic accident. Physical examination showed instability and tenderness in the chest wall, especially the medial chest. The patient experienced significant pain and difficulty breathing.
What is likely the cause of the man's symptoms?
What is a sternum fracture?
What does prolonged exposure to friction cause in the stratum corneum?
What is callus?
(Increased keratin production, resulting in abnormal thickening of the stratum corneum.)
Which joint(s) connect the os coxa with the sacrum?
(Also where the hip bones are joined to the axial skeleton.)
What are the sacroiliac joints?
What are cranial sutures comprised of?
What is dense irregular connective tissue?
What are the plates of bone that extend from the pedicles?
What are the laminae? (Spine vertebrae)
A16-year-old female, was an otherwise healthy and active high school athlete. She presented to the emergency department complaining of severe neck pain and a "locked" head following a car accident where she was a passenger. She was completely unable to look left or right, but could slightly look up and down.
What is likely the cause of the woman's symptoms?
What is an axis injury?
What is the dominant pigment in red hair?
What is pheomelanin?
What is the attachment point for the long head of biceps brachii muscle?
What is the supraglenoid tubercle?
Lacrimal fluid drains at the medial corner of eye into what?
What is the nasolacrimal canal?
What are the depressions on the superior-lateral surface of the vertebral body?
What is the superior demifacet?
An active 89-year-old woman lived independently and used a crutch. She had pre-existing conditions of high blood pressure and hypercholesterolemia, for which she took medication, among other perscriptions. She suffered a hip fracture after a fall, where she underwent an internal fixation using a dynamic hip screw. The procedure initially appeared uneventful. During the fourth week of a rehabilitation program, the patient's hip pain and thigh swelling significantly worsened, especially after increasing her range-of-motion exercises. She also developed a slight fever and inflammation. Her symptoms, including the severe femoral swelling, led the doctors to suspect a late-onset infection (sepsis), but they were incorrect and she died.
What is likely the cause of the patients death?
What is a femoral artery injury resulting in internal bleeding?