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HaneySprtMedc12-2012
Question | Answer |
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What is the largest bone in the upper extremity? | humerus |
What process articulates with the proximal radius? | Olecranon Process |
The medial condyle allows what? | flexion and extension of the elbow |
What helps to keep the radius form separating? | annular ligament |
How many bones does the wrist contain? | 27 bones |
What joint has very strong ligaments and muscular support? | The elbow |
The lateral collateral ligament is attached to what? | humerus and radius |
What produces feeling in a certain anatomical area? | dermatome |
What are the muscles that control the elbow's movement above the elbow? | biceps, triceps, brachialis |
Flexion of the wrist | Decreasing the angle between the forearm and hand |
Extension of the wrist | Increasing the angle between the forearm and hand |
Supination of the elbow | movement of the palm upward |
What injury is caused by a direct blow? | Contusion |
What is caused by pressure on the median nerve? | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
Pronation of the elbow | movement of the palm downward |
Radial deviation of the wrist | movement of the wrist to the thumb side |
inflammation of the olecranon bursa by either a direct blow or overuse | Olecranon bursitis |
what injury usually results form a fall on an extended wrist? | scaphoid fracture |
The elbow's movements include... | flexion extension pronation supination |
What is the difference between a first degree and third degree sprain? | 3rd involves ligaments tearing completely |
What is a Subungual Hemotoma? | When the fingernail receives a contusion from excessive force causing bleeding under the fingernail. |
The hand region has how many metacarpal bones? | five |
List some muscles in the wrist and hand? | abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, adductor pollicis, abductor digiti minimi, flexor digiti minimi brevis, opponens digiti minimi, palmar interossei, and dorsal interossei |
What's a dermotome | sensory distribution of a nerve root |
What bones make up the elbow? | humerus, radius, ulna |
What is Supination of the wrist | The turning of the palm upward |
Where do the muscles responsible movement of the elbow begin? | (above the elbow, on the humerus and scapula) biceps, triceps, and brachialis. |
The carpal bones include.. | scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and hamate. |
Of the carpel bones which is most commonly fractured, also known as the anatomical snuff box? | scaphiod |
What is the medical term for "tennis elbox"? | lateral epicondylitis |
What is the medical term for "little league elbow"? | medial epicondylitis |
An athlete punches the wall, and is complaining of pain, swelling, and decreased range of motion over his 5th metacarpal, what do you suspect? | a boxer's fracture |