Fractures
A piece of machinery completely pulls off a farmer's finger.
What is avulsion fracture?
Bacterial infection of bone tissue
What is osteomyelitis?
The structural joint at the knee.
What is synovial monaxial?
Osteoclasts vs. Osteoblasts
What are -clasts break down bone, -blasts build up bone?
Blood is produced here.
What is red bone marrow?
Arm was violently twisted.
What is spiral fracture?
The main reason osteoporosis is so common is postmenopausal women.
What is the lack of estrogen/ hormones?
Classification for the joint joining the ribs to the sternum.
What is synchondrosis and amphiarthrosis?
Location and definition of the patella bone type classification.
What is sesamoid: bone grown within tendon?
The purpose of flat bones.
What is the protection of organs underneath?
A broken bone (skull) is pressed inward.
What is a depression fracture?
Weakening of weight-bearing bones resulting from a lack of vitamin D and other imperative minerals.
What is Rickets?
A fibrous joint cannot also be this type of functional joint.
What is diarthrosis?
The 2 types of bone and their location within a long bone.
What is spongy (head) and compact (shaft)?
The main functions of the skeletal system (7)
What are support, protection, movement, blood formation, electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, and detoxification?
The arm is bent but only partially broken on 1 side of the shaft.
What is an incomplete greenstick?
The long bone of the patient stopped growing during childhood due to a lack of chondrocyte growth at the epiphyseal plate resulting in disproportionate stature.
What is achondroplastic dwarfism?
The type of cartilage found on the ends of bones, is also called articular cartilage.
What is hyaline cartilage?
Label the main parts of the osteon.
What are central canal, lacuna, canaliculi, concentric lamellae?
The type of growth that adds bone to the surface of mature bones.
What is appositional growth?
The 3 additional ways to classify bone fractures besides their main classification (angle of fracture).
What are simple/compound, complete/incomplete, displaced/nondisplaced?
The 3 types of arthritis.
What are osteo-, rheumatoid, and gout?
The subcategories of fibrous joints.
What are suture, syndesmosis, and gomphosis?
The lattice structure of spongy bone.
What is trabeculae?
The difference between endochondral and intramembranous ossification.
What is endochondral ossification bone is created through a cartilage template and intramembranous ossification bone is created directly from the embryonic tissue into spongy bone.