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First Exam: Sports Medicine Team, Orientation To The Body, Injury Terminology, Basic Skeleton, Bone Injury And Bone Fractures > Bone Structure And Bone Fractures > Flashcards

Bone Structure And Bone Fractures Flashcards

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Epiphysis

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Ends of bone proximal and distal

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Metaphysis

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Growth zones where epiphyses meet the diaphysis

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Epiphyseal disk

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A plate of hyaline cartilage that exists at metaphysic during growth years (growth plate)

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Medullary cavity

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Hello chamber along diathesis hold the yellow marrow

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Endosteum

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Membrane that lines the medulary cavity and is continuous with the haversian canals

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Yellow marrow

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Fatty material that fills the medullary cavity

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Red marrow

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Phil’s ribs and sternum vertebrae calcaneous humorous and femur in adults

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Periosteum

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Top covering envelope in the surfaces of the entire bone except areas of articulation or the outer covering

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Articular cartilage

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Covers each epiphysis which contact adjacent bones

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Volkmanns canal

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Canal for blood vessels that run horizontal and spongy bone

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Haversian Canal

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Can now for blood vessels that run along the length of compact bone

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Osteoblast

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Creates bone

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Osteoclast

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Breaks down old bones

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Hematopeosis

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Red marrow produces red blood cells and white blood cells

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Osteoporosis

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Loss of bone mineral density osteoblast activity slows down well osteoclast activity increases

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Closed or simple bone fracture

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Bones stay within the confines of the skin

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Open or compound fracture

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Bone and stick through the skin

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Incomplete fracture

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Greenstick fracture it doesn’t break through the full thickness of the bone

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Fissured fracture

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Crack that goes along the length of the bone

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Complete fracture

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Breaks through the full thickness of the bone

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Transverse fracture

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Across the long axis of the bone

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Oblique fracture

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On an angle or diagonal across the bone

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Spiral fracture

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From rotational factors bone will break in multiple places looking like a spiral

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Segmental fracture

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Breaks in three or more pieces

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comminuted fracture

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Breaks into many fragments or an eggshell fracture

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Displaced fracture

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Bone ends are not in alignment anymore

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Compacted or compression

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2 bones get squished into one another

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Avulsion fracture

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A piece of bone breaks off but is still attached to the ligament

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Stress fracture

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Caused by microtrauma it is an incomplete fracture and hard to diagnose

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Diaphysis

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Elongated shaft of bone

First Exam: Sports Medicine Team, Orientation To The Body, Injury Terminology, Basic Skeleton, Bone Injury And Bone Fractures (9 decks)

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