Uses radiographic images, can be portable or stationary
What is an X-Ray
100
Is the portion of the skeletal system that includes the ribs, sternum and vertebral bones that protect the lungs and heart.
What is the thorax?
200
fracture
What is fx?
200
Band of fibrous tissue theat connects bone to bone
What is a ligament?
200
When a ligament or tendon pulls on the bone and pulls it apart causing a complete break.
What is an avulsion fx?
200
Uses x-rays combined with computer technology to produce images
What is a CT scan?
200
Upper arm bone
What is the humerus?
300
Inflamation of the tendon
What is tendonitis?
300
Bone cell that aids in the building of bone
What is an osteoblast?
300
A weakening of the bones usually due to a decrease in calcium.
What is osteoporosis?
300
Uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body
What is an MRI
300
The lower leg bones
What are the tibia and the fibula?
400
Fluid filled sac filled with fluid to protect joints
What is a bursa?
400
Bone cell that aids in the breaking down of bone
What is an osteoclast?
400
An autoimmune disease that results in a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks flexible (synovial) joints.
What is rheumatoid arthritis
400
The pt. is injected with radioactive material called tracers, the bones absorb these tracers and x-rays are taken
What is a bone scan?
400
The bones of the foot
What is are the metatarsals?
500
Having progressively less function
What is degenerative?
500
Wasting away
What is atropy?
500
A congenital condition of the spinal column usually related to a lack of folic acid during pregnancy, the spinal cord protudes and herniates through the spinal column.
What is menigomyelocele or spina bifida
500
A piece of bone is removed from the pt., usually the hip, to study under a microscope in pt.s who have problems with blood RBC, WBC's or platlets