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Chapter 4-Musculoskeletal Flashcards

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Arth/o , articul/o

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Joint

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Ankyl/o

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Crooked or stiff

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Brachi/o

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Arm

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Cervic/I

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Neck

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Chrond/o

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Cartilage

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Cost/o

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Rib

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Dactyl/o

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Digits or fingers

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Kyph/o

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Humped back

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Lord/o

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Bent

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Myel/o

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Bone marrow or spinal cord

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My/o, myos/o, muscul/o

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Muscle

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Sarc/o

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Flesh

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Scoli/o

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Twisted

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Tend/o, ten/o, tendin/o

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Tendon

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Ton/o

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Tone or tension

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Body planes

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Reference planes for indicating the location or direction of body parts

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Erect

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Normal standing postion

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Decubitus

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Lying down

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Prone

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Lying face down and flat

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Recumbent

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Lying down

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Supine

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Lying flat on the back

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Flexion

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Bending at the joint so that the angle between the bones is decreased

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Eversion

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Turning outward

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Supination

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Turning of the Palmer surface upward or forward

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Pronation

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Turning of the Palmer surface downward or backward

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Dorsiflexion

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Bending the foot or the toes upward

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Arthralgia

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Joint pain

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Atrophy

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Shrinking of muscle size

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Flaccid

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Flabby, relaxed, or having absent or defective muscle tone

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Hypertrophy

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Increase size in tissue

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Hypotonia

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Reduced muscle tone

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Myalgia/ myodynia

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Muscle pain

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Ostealgia, osteodynia

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Tetany

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Tension, continuous muscle contraction

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Ankylosis

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Stiff joint condition

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Arthritis

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Inflammation of the joints (pain, swelling, redness ECt.)

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Bony necrosis

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Bone tissue they has died from loss of blood supply

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Bursitis

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Inflammation of a bursa

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Chrondromalacia

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Softening of cartilage

39
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Myeloma

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Bone marrow tumor

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Myoma

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Muscle tumor

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