Facial Bones
What is cranium?
The largest bone in the leg.
What is femur?
When a ligament that connects bones to a joint is wrenched or torn.
What is a sprain?
Bands of fibrous tissue that form joints by connecting one bone to another bone or by joining a bone to cartilage.
What is ligaments?
Force exerted on a limb in a distal direction in an effort to turn the bone or joint to the normal alignment.
What is traction?
Forms the back of the skull and the base of the cranium.
What is the occipital bone?
Bones that form the wrists?
What are the carpals?
An inflammatory condition of one or more joints.
What is arthritis?
The curved, fibrous cartilage found in some joints.
What is the meniscus?
This is a treatment for a fracture where a plate or pins are placed directly into the bone to hold the broken bones in place.
What is an internal fixation?
The three tiny bones of the middle ear?
What are auditory ossicles?
Bones that form the palms of the hands.
What are the metacarpals?
Malformation of the skull due to the premature closure of the cranial sutures.
What is craniostenosis?
What is periosteum?
A procedure in which only part of the knee is replaced?
What is partial knee arthroplasty?
The bones for the anterior (front) part of the hard palate of the mouth and the floor of the nose.
What are the palatine bones?
The smaller and shorter bone in the forearm.
What is the radius?
A congenital defect that occurs during early pregnancy when the spinal canal fails to close completely around the spinal cord to protect it.
What is spina bifida?
Smooth, rubbery, blue-white connective tissue that acts as a shock absorber.
What is cartilage?
A technique to immobilize part of the spine by joining together two or more vertebrae.
What is spinal fusion?
Forms the base of the nasal septum.
What is the vomer bone?
This is the larger bone of the lower leg and also known as the shin bone.
What is tibia?
A type of cancer that occurs in blood-making cells found in the red bone marrow. This condition can cause pathologic fractures and is often fatal.
What is myeloma?
Created where two bones articulate to permit a variety of motions.
What is synovial joints?
Surgical cutting of a bone.
What is osteotomy?