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Vocabulary
Wounds
Medical Terminology
Fractures
Sprain/Strain
100
This word means "swelling."
What is edema?
100
This is the medical term for "scrape."
What is an abrasion?
100
This word means "forward or in front of."
What is anterior?
100
This type of fracture shatters the bone into multiple pieces
What is a comminuted fracture?
100
This is an injury to a muscle or muscle tendon.
What is a strain?
200
This word means "black & blue" such as from a bruise.
What is echymosis?
200
A jagged wound with a lot of bleeding.
What is a laceration?
200
This word means "away from the mid-line."
What is lateral?
200
This fracture is common in children.
What is a greenstick fracture?
200
This grade involves a tendon or ligament being "stretched"
What is a Grade 1?
300
This term means "heat."
What is calor?
300
This is another name for a bruise.
What is a contusion?
300
This word means "far from the point of attachment."
What is distal?
300
This type of fracture cannot be seen on an X-ray until it has it has started to heal.
What is a stress fracture?
300
This grade involves a tendon/ligament being completely torn
What is a Grade 3?
400
These terms describe how an injury occured.
What is mechanism of injury?
400
Penetrated by a sharp object
What is a puncture wound?
400
This word means "close to the surface."
What is superficial?
400
This unusually shaped fracture is caused from a twisting force.
What is a spiral fracture?
400
This is an injury to a ligament
What is a sprain?
500
When a bone pops out of a joint and immediately slides back in.
What is a subluxation?
500
Some portion of skin, muscle, or bone is torn away.
What is an avulsion?
500
This term means "towards the feet or below."
What is inferior?
500
This fracture involves bones piercing through the skin and is considered a medical emergency.
What is a compund fracture?
500
This injury only partially tears a tendon or ligament
What is a Grade 2?