head neck spine

Question 1

amnesia

Answer 1

difficulty remembering things before or after the impact

Question 2

battle sign

Answer 2

discoloration of the area behind the ear because of a skull fracture

Question 3

countercoup

Answer 3

when the brain moves in the opposite direction of the blow

Question 4

intracranial hematoma

Answer 4

severe bleeding within the brain

Question 5

blowout

Answer 5

fracture caused by a hit to the eye that forces the eye back within the socket

Question 6

crepitus

Answer 6

crunchiness during palpation of bone/joint

Question 7

epistaxis

Answer 7

nosebleed

Question 8

hyphema

Answer 8

blood pooling in anterior portion of the eye

Question 9

subconjunctival hemorrhage

Answer 9

when small blood vessels in the eye rupture turning it red

Question 10

annulus fibrosus

Answer 10

cartilage surrounding the nucleous pulposus in an intervertebral disc

Question 11

burner/stinger

Answer 11

stretching up brachial plexus in the arm

Question 12

kyphosis

Answer 12

excessive curvutre of the thoracic spin

Question 13

lordosis

Answer 13

excessibe curvurature of the lumbar spin

Question 14

neutral spin

Answer 14

normal spinal alighnemtn

Question 15

nucleou polposus

Answer 15

jellylike core of an intervertebral disk

Question 16

scoliolsis

Answer 16

abnormal sisde to side curvutre of th spine

Question 17

spondyloisthesis

Answer 17

when vertebra slips foward because of spinal instability due to spondylosis

Question 18

spondyloilysis

Answer 18

stress fracture or bone degeneration of the vertebrae