Chapter 9 Skeletal System

Question 1

Fracture

Answer 1

Partial or complete break, usually caused by trauma.

Question 2

Pathological fractures

Answer 2

1 cause is osteoporosis.

Can also come from cancer and metabolic disorders.(rickets, paget’s)
Bones weaken and fracture with very little stress.

Question 3

Compound/displaces or open fractures

Answer 3

Bone ends protrude through the skin. More soft tissue, blood, and nerve damage possible. Greater chance of infection.

Question 4

Non-displaced/simple or closed fractures

Answer 4

Bones do not penetrate the skin.

Question 5

Stress fractures

Answer 5

Often hidden “cracks” from repeated trauma in legs and feet. Often not visible on X-ray.

Question 6

Complete fracture

Answer 6

Bone breaks all the way across into separate pieces.

Question 7

Incomplete fracture

Answer 7

Partial break or cracks in bones.

Question 8

Clinical signs of a fracture are….

Answer 8

Loss of function or false motion, pain & edema, deformity.

Question 9

Reduction means….

Answer 9

Realignment of bones in a fracture or of a joint in a dislocation.

Question 10

Mastoiditis

Answer 10

Air spaces in the temporal bone become infected. Deteriorates bone and may spread to meninges.

Question 11

Osgood-Schlatter’s disease

Answer 11

Bone fragments are torn away from the tibia causing pain. Mostly found in teenage boys still growing who are athletic. Enlarged tibial tuberosity results.

Question 12

Scoliosis

Answer 12

An abnormal side-to-side curvature of the spine.

Question 13

Lordosis

Answer 13

An abnormal inward curvature of the lumbar spine.

-Pregnancy, degeneration of spine, idiopathic

Question 14

Kyphosis

Answer 14

An abnormal outward curvature of the thoracic spine.

-“hunchback” caused by osteoporosis, arthritis, poor posture, trauma, or other disease.