Skeletal System
Abnormal softening of the bone
What is osteomalacia?
Inflammation of many muscles
What is polymyositis?
Inflammation of the heart muscle
What is myocarditis or carditis?
Difficulty breathing
What is dyspnea?
What is a septum?
Surgical fusion of a joint
What is arthrodesis?
Joint pain
What is arthralgia?
Abnormally slow heart beat
What is bradycardia?
The voice box
What is the larynx?
The musculomembranous wall separating the abdomen from the thoracic cavity
What is the diaphragm?
What is osteomyelitis?
An immovable joint
What is a suture?
hardening of the arteries
What is atherosclerosis?
*A form of arteriosclerosis
The windpipe
What is the trachea?
Two word elements (suffixes) that mean pain
What is -algia and -dynia?
Humpback
What is Kyphosis?
Paralysis of all four extremities and the trunk of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord at the level of the cervical vertebrae
What is quadriplegia?
Inflammation of a vein
What is phlebitis?
The throat
What is the pharynx?
Spaces between the ribs
What are (is) intercostal spaces?
Crooked or bent vertebrae
What is scoliosis?
A condition in which there is impairment of voluntary movement; "bad or difficult movement"
What is dyskinesia?
Heart attack also known as
What is Myocardial Infarction?
Pain in the larynx
What is laryngalgia?
Visceral pericardium is also known as
What is (the) epicardium?
A curve in the vertebral column; swayback
What is lordosis?
Herniation of muscle through the muscular sheath (fascia) surrounding it
What is Myocele?
The graphic outline or record of movements of structures of the heart produced by ultrasonography
What is echocardiogram?
Pain in the pleura that occurs when the inflamed pleural membranes rub together during thebreathing process
What is pleurodynia?
Another name for joint
What is articulation?