Positioning of Body Parts
Posterior
What is back?
3 bony pieces
What is comminuted?
Abdominal
What is the anterior body trunk inferior to ribs?
Scapular
What is the shoulder blade?
Lays down bone
What is an osteoblast?
Anterior
What is front
Bending force
What is transverse?
Antecubital
What is the anterior surface of elbow?
Phalanges
What is the fingers or toes?
Where fibrocartilage is replaced with bone
What is bony callus?
What is towards the middle?
Twisting force
What is spiral?
Brachial
What is the arm?
Coccyx
What is the tailbone?
Only performed in emergencies
What is external fixation?
What is closer to the point of attachment?
Describe a transverse fracture.
What is a horizontal surface?
Buccal
What is the cheek?
Clavicle
What is the collar bone?
Use in kids mostly
What is casting?
Distal
What is farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk?
Number of pieces in spiral and transverse fractures?
What is two?
Cephalic
What is the head?
Humerus
What is the upper arm bone?
Active when blood calcium is low
What is an osteoclast?