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SHAFT OF ANY LONG BONE? DIAPHYSIS
END OF A LONG BONE? EPIPHYSIS
TYPE OF CELLS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DIAMETER GROWTH OF BONES? OSTEOCLASTS
BENIGN PROJECTION OF BONE WITH A CARTILAGE-LIKE CAP OCCURRING AROUND THE KNEE IN CHILDREN OF ADOLESCENTS? OSTEOCHONDROMA
WHICH IS AN EXAMPLE OF A MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR? OSTEOGENIC, CHONDROSARCOMA, EWING'S SARCOMA ALL THREE
FORM OF NONINFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS CHARACTERIZED BY OSTEOPOROSIS, SOFT TISSUE SWELLING AND EROSION OF THE METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINTS AND ULNAR STYLOID PROCESS? RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
EXTREMELY COMMON FORM OF ARTHRITIS THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY LOSS OF JOINT CARTILAGE AND REACTIVE NEW BONE GROWTH AND THAT IS PART OF THE NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR OF AGING? OSTEOARTHRITIS
INFLAMMATION OF SMALL FLUID-FILLED SACS THAT ARE LOCATED AROUND JOINTS THAT REDUCE FRICTION? BURSITIS
WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE IS THE SKIN BROKEN? COMPOUND
WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE CONSISTS OF MORE THAT TWO FRAGMENTS COMMINUTED
WHAT TERM APPLIES TO THE NEW CALCIUM DEPOSITS THAT UNITE FRACTURE SITES? CALLUS
WHAT TYPE OF FRACTURE OCCURS IN BONE WEAKENED BY SOME PREEXISTING CONDITION, SUCH AS A METASTATIC LESION? PATHOLOGIC
TYPE OF FRACTURE THAT CAN OCCUR FROM FALLING ON THE OUT STRETCHED HAND AND INVOLVES THE DISTAL PORTION OF THE RADIUS? COLLES
TERM FOR A FRACTURE INVOLVING BOTH MALLEOLI? POTT'S
FRACTURE RESULTING FROM HYPEREXTENSION OF THE HEAD ON THE NECK? HANGMAN'S
WHAT ARE OF THE SPINE DOES A CLAY SHOVER'S FRACTURE INVOLVE? LOWER CERVICAL AND UPPER THORACIC
WHAT MEDICAL TERM REFERS TO A CLEFT IN THE PARS INTERARTICULARIS COMMONLY INVOLVING THE 5TH LUMBAR VERTEBRAE? SPONDYLOLYSIS
PATHOLOGIC CONDITION SOMETIMES OCCURS AFTER TRAUMA, CAUSING AN INTERRUPTED BLOOD SUPPLY TO A BONE? ISCHEMIC NECROSIS
COVERS OUT SURFACE OF BONES, CONTAINS ARTERIES AND NUTRIENT VESSELS? PERIOSTEUM
HOLLOW AREA WITHIN THE DIAPHYSIS, FILLED WITH MARROW MEDULLARY CAVITY
OUTER LAYER OF BONE? COMPACT BONE
INSIDE THE MEDULLARY CAVITY IS CALLED? CANCELLOUS BONE/TRABECULAE
CELLS THAT REMOVE BONE/RESORPTION? OSTEOCLASTS
"MARBLE BONE", BONE MARROW DOES NOT FORM PROPERLY LEADING TO BRITTLE BONES, SYMMETRIC, GENERALIZED INCREASED BONE DENSITY OSTEOPETROSIS
"BRITTLE BONE", SCLERAS CAN TURN BLUE, BONE DENSITY LOSS, MULTIPLE HEALED FX, DEFORMED BONES OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS IN HANDS AND FEET, BILATERAL, IRREGULAR JOINT EDGES, ANKYLOSIS? RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
"BABMOO SPINE" FORM OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, AFFECTS THE SPINE, LOSS OF DISK/JOINT SPACE ANKYLOSING SPONDYLTIS
COMMON DISORDER, OCCURS WITH AGE FROM REPEATED STRESS TO JOINTS, LOSS OF JOINT CARTILAGE, WEIGHT BEARING JOINTS? OSTEOARTHRITIS
"MOTH-EATEN" APPEARANCE, INFLAMMATION OF THE BONE MARROW, BEGINS AS BONE ABSCESS, NOT SEEN FOR 10 DAYS AFTER ONSET, SOFT TISSUE SWELLING, LUCENCIES. OSTEOMYELITIS
GENERALIZED OR LOCALIZED, DISRUPTION OF NORMAL RESORPTION/FORMATION, CAUSED BY AGE AND HORMONAL CHANGES, DECREASED DENSITY IN ENTIRE STRUCTURE, "PICTURE FRAME" IN VERTEBRAL BODIES? OSTEOPOROSIS
"SOFTENING" OF THE BONES, LOSS OF BONE DENSITY, "BOWING OF VERTEBRAL BODIES AND PELVIS? OSTEOMALACIA
"COTTON WOOL", METABOLIC DISEASE, INVOLVES MULTIPLE BONES, LUCENCIES IN DESTRUCTIVE PHASE PAGET'S
BEGINS IN CHILDHOOD, PROLIFERATION OF FIBROUS TISSUE IN MEDULLARY CAVITY, "GROUND GLASS" OR "SOAP BUBBLE" APPEARANCE? FIBROUS DYSPLASIA
BENIGN BONE TUMOR THAT OCCURS IN CHILDREN AND TEENS, MORE OFTEN NEAR THE KNEE OSTEOCHONDROMA
BENIGN BONE TUMOR OF MEDULLARY CANAL, MORE FREQUENT IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS ENDOCHONDROMA
BENIGN BONE TUMOR OCCURS IN YOUNG ADULTS, AFFECTS DISTAL FEMUR, BUBBLE APPREARANCE GIANT CELL TUMOR
ARE OSTEOGENIC SARCOMAS MALIGNANT OF BENIGN? MALIGNANT
TYPE OF MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR THAT IS WIDESPREAD PRIMARY CANCER OF BONE MULTIPLE MYELOMA
MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR SHOWS DESTRUCTIVE SCLEROTIC LESIONS, SOFT TISSUE MASS, REACTIVE NEW BONE FORMATION, "SUNBURST" OSTEOGENIC SARCOMA
TYPE OF MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR APPEARS AS MULTIPLE "PUNCH-OUT" LYTIC LESIONS MULTIPLE MYELOMA
MOST COMMON BONE MALIGNANCY? BONE METS
BONE METS ARE USUALLY FROM WHERE? BREAST, LUNG, PROSTATE, KIDNEY, THYROID, USUALLY SPREAD VIA BLOODSTREAM OR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
TYPE OF COMMINUTED FRACTURE OF THE RING OF THE ATLAS? JEFFERSON FRACTURE
AVULSION FRACTURE OF THE SPINOUS PROCESS? CLAY SHOVELER'S FRACTURE
VERTEBRAL ABNORMALITY IN WHICH THERE IS A CLEFT IN THE PARS INTERARTICLARIS? SPONDYLOSIS
FORWARD DISPLACEMENT OF AFFECTED VERTEBRAE? SPONDYLOLISTHESIS
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