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Skeletal System
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
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Closed Fracture | No open skin wound |
Colles' Fracture | Wrist fracture |
Comminuted Fracture | Bone is shattered, splintered or crushed into many small pieces |
Greenstick Fracture | Incomplete Break of a bone |
Impacted Fracture | Fracture in which bone fragments are pushed into each other |
Oblique Fracture | When the bone is broken at an angle |
Spiral Fracture | Fracture is from a twisting injury |
Transverse Fracture | Complete fracture straight across the bone |
Stress Fracture | Caused by repetitive low impact forces |
Osteogenic Sarcoma | Most common type of bone cancer usually found in the long end of bones |
Meniscus | Shock absorber in the knee |
Periosteum | Membrane covering the bones |
Diaphysis | Shaft of a long bone |
Rickets | A deficiency in calcium and vitamin D found in early childhood that can result in genu varum |