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Skeletal System
Muscular System
Pathology
ICD
Medical Lab
100
This part of the skeletal system is made up of the skull, vertebral column and thorax.
What is the axial skeleton?
100
This type of muscle is found in visceral organs.
What is smooth?
100
This type of fracture protrudes through the skin.
What is an open or compound fracture?
100
This is the currently-used revision of ICD codes.
What is 9th?
100
Hospital-acquired infections are known as this.
What is nosocomial infections?
200
This is the longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
200
Bundles of muscle fibers are held together by thin sheets of connective tissue called this.
What is fascia?
200
This is an abnormal condition occuring in adults that is the weakening of the bones due to a calcium deficiency.
What is osteoporosis?
200
A code with the highest level of specificity is this many digits.
What is 5?
200
This states that all patients must be treated as contaminated.
What is universal precautions?
300
Vertebrae C2 is also known as this.
What is the axis?
300
This type of muscle provides a circular motion.
What is a rotator?
300
This is the overstretching of a joint ligament.
What is a sprain?
300
This is the main reason for which a patient seeks medical care in an outpatient setting.
What is the primary diagnosis?
300
This is the term in the chain of infection where the infectious agent "lives."
What is the reservoir?
400
These ribs attach to the sternum by cartilage.
What are false ribs?
400
This triangular-shaped muscle in the upper arm is a common site for injections.
What is the deltoid?
400
This chronic syndrome causes generalized pain in muscles and surrounding tissues.
What is fibromyalgia?
400
These letter codes are used for therapeutic encounters, such as preo-op physicals.
What are v-codes?
400
This is the most important means of preventing infection.
What is hand washing?
500
This articulation has no movement at all.
What are suture lines or synarthrosis?
500
The location where muscle and nerve fibers meet is called this.
What is the neuromuscular junction?
500
This is also known as "wryneck" and is a stiff neck due to the muscles being in one position for a long period of time.
What is torticollis?
500
If there is not yet a primary diagnosis, the biller would code these conditions instead.
What are signs and symptoms?
500
The four main types of hazards in the lab are physical, chemical, this and this.
What is fire/electrical and biologic?