Ch.32 Musculoskeletal Trauma Terms

Question 1

A fracture in which the broken bone segments are at an angle to each other

Answer 1

Angulated fracture

Question 2

Hard but flexible live structures that provide support for the body and protection of vital organs

Answer 2

Bones

Question 3

Tough tissue to cover the joint ends and bones and helps to form certain body parts, such as the outer ear

Answer 3

Cartilage

Question 4

Injury to an extremity with no associated opening in the skin

Answer 4

Close extremity injury

Question 5

A fraction which the bone is broken in several places

Answer 5

Comminuted fracture

Question 6

Injury calls with tissues, such as blood vessels and nerves are compressed from swelling or because of a tight dressing or cast

Answer 6

Compartment syndrome

Question 7

A grading cessation or sound that is made with fractured bone ends rub together

Answer 7

Crepitus

Question 8

Did interruption or coming a part of a joint

Answer 8

Dislocation

Question 9

The portions of the skeleton that include the clavicle, scapula, arms, wrist, and hands, and the pelvis, thighs, legs, ankles, and feet

Answer 9

Extremities

Question 10

Any break in a bone?

Answer 10

Fracture

Question 11

An incomplete fracture from an excessive bending force

Answer 11

Greenstick fracture

Question 12

Places were bones, articulate, meet

Answer 12

Joints

Question 13

Connect tissues that connect bone to bone

Answer 13

Ligaments, BLB

Question 14

The process of paying attention to straighten and realign a fractured limb before splinting

Answer 14

Manual traction

Question 15

Tissues or fibers that cause moving a body parts and organs

Answer 15

Muscles

Question 16

Injury which the skin has been broken or torn from the inside or from the outside

Answer 16

Open extremity injury

Question 17

The stretching entering of ligaments

Answer 17

Sprain

Question 18

Muscle injury caused by overstretching or overexertion of the muscle

Answer 18

Strain

Question 19

Tissues that bind muscle to bone

Answer 19

Tendons, MTB

Question 20

A splint that applies constant pool on the length of the lower extremity to help stabilize the fracture bone and to reduce muscle spasms in the limbs used primarily on femoral shaft fractures

Answer 20

Traction splint