Bone Flashcards

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Crest

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Narrow ridge of bone, usually prominent

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Tuberosity

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Large rounded projection

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Trochanter

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Large, blunt, irregularly shaped process

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Line

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Narrow ridge not usually prominent

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Tubercle

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Small rounded projection or process

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Epicondyle

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Raised area on or above a condyle

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Spine

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Sharp, slender, often pointed projection

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Process

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Any bony process

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Head

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Bony expansion carried on a narrow neck

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Facet

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Smooth, nearly flat articulate surfaces

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Ramus

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Armlike bar of bone

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Groove

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Furrow

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Fissure

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Narrow slit like opening

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Foramen

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Round or oval opening through a bone

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Meatus

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Canal like passageway

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Fossa

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Mu

Shallow basin like depression in a bone, often as an articulate surface. Inverse of condyle

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Sinus

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Cavity in a bone filled with air and lined with a mucosal membrane

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Comminuted fracture

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Bone is broken in several places

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Compression fracture

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Bone is crushed

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Spiral fracture

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Breaks from torsion

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Epiphysial fracture

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Epiphysis separates from the diaphysis

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Depression fracture

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Bone is pressed in; elderly

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Green stick fracture

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Bone is not broken through; children

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Displaced fracture

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The bone ends are out of alignment

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Non displaced fracture

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Ends of the bone are aligned

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Compound fracture

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Breaks skin

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Simple fracture

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Does not break skin

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Closed reduction

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Realigning the fracture without surgery

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Open reduction

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Surgical procedure