Exam 2 Review Flashcards
Two articulations of glenoid cavity
Sternoclavicular and acromoclavicular
Sequence of bone fracture healing
Inflammatory, repairatory, remodeling
Communited fracture
Bone is broken in at least two places
Immediate threat to life for burn patients
Infection and fluid loss
Where is pituitary gland
Attached to hypothalamus (in skull, okay)
What covers surface of synovial joints
Articular cartilage
Define abduction vs adduction
AB = away
Ad= toward
Largest and most complex diarthrosis in body
The knee
Define a synostosis joint
Fusion of two bones
Least movable joints
Sutures
Function of PTH
Regulation of calcium levels
Most common spinal curvature deformity
Scoliosis
Define rickets and osteomalacia
Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children
Osteomalacia is in both adults and children
Where to find the a bifed spinous process
Cleft of spinous process
The three auditory ossicles
Malleous, incus, stapes
What is an achomdroplastic dwarf
Most common type of short limbed dwarfism
Most superficial skin layer
Epidermis. Most superficial layer of epidermis is stratum corneum
Define hirsutism
Excessive hair growth
What type of tissue is osseous tissue
Bone connective tissue
Processes of the axis vertebrae
The transverse and spinous
Tissue found in the most superficial layer of the skin
Stratified squamous epithelium
What is a bursa
Fluid filled sac often countering friction at a joint. (If you are hugging a workout ball and rolling around on it, you are patella, workout ball is bursa)
The proximal radioulnar joint is what type of joint
Pivot joint
Bones making up the antebrachium
Ulna and radius