Chapter 5: Fractures Flashcards
What is the 2nd hardest tissue in the body?
A bone
Ways that a bone can be fracture?
By strong impacts, stress or disease
What is a Pathological fracture?
The bone breaks in an area that is weakened by disease, such as osteoporosis.
What is a Stress fracture?
A small crack in a bone caused by overuse and repetitive activity (common in athletes)
What is a Closed fracture?
When a bone breaks and you can see it but it didn’t poke the skin.
What is an Open fracture?
When the ends of the broken bone tear through the skin, has a higher skin infection.
What is a Greenstick fracture?
The bone bends and cracks instead of breaking into small pieces. (like when you break a greenstick from a tree)
What is a Comminuted fracture?
The bone is splintered or crushed into small pieces.
What is a Spiral fracture?
A broken bone with a twisting motion.
What is an Oblique fracture?
The break of the bone occurs at an angle across the bone.
What is a Transverse fracture?
The break occurs straight across the bone.
What is a Colle’s fracture?
A break of the radius bone close to the wrist that results from a fall onto an outstretch hand.
What is a Hairline fracture?
The bone is broken in a thin crack. It is hard to detect on a routine x-ray.
