Muscuskeletal Trauma

Question 1

Bones

Answer 1

Hard but flexible living structures that provide support for the body and protection to vital organs

Question 2

Joints

Answer 2

Places where bones articulate, or meet

Question 3

Periosteum

Answer 3

Bones are cover by strong white fibrous material

Question 4

Muscles

Answer 4

Tissues or fibers that cause movement of body parts and organs

Question 5

Cartilage

Answer 5

Tough tissue that covers the joint ends of bones and helps to form certain body parts such as the ear

Question 6

Tendons

Answer 6

Tissues that connect muscle to bone

Question 7

Ligament

Answer 7

Tissues that connect bone to bone

Question 8

MTB

Answer 8

Muscle tendon bone

Question 9

BLB

Answer 9

Bone ligament bone

Question 10

Traction splint

Answer 10

A splint that applies constant pull along the length of a lower extremity to help stabilize the fracture bone and to reduce muscle spasm in the limb. Traction splint are used on femoral shaft fractures.

Question 11

Fracture

Answer 11

Any break in a bone

Question 12

Comminuted fracture

Answer 12

A fracture in which the bone is broken in several places

Question 13

Greenstick fracture

Answer 13

An incomplete fracture

Question 14

Angulated fracture

Answer 14

Fracture in which the broken bone segments are at an angle to each other

Question 15

Dislocation

Answer 15

The disruption or coming apart of a joint

Question 16

Sprain

Answer 16

The stretching and tearing of a ligament

Question 17

Strain

Answer 17

Muscle injury resulting from over stretching or over exertion of the muscle

Question 18

Extremities

Answer 18

The portion of the skeleton that includes the clavicles, scapulae, arms, wrists, and hands and the pelvis, thighs, legs, ankles, and feet

Question 19

Closed extremity injury

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An injury to an extremity with no associated opening in the skin

Question 20

Open extremity injury

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An extremity injury in which he skin has been broken or torn through from he inside by an injured bone or from the outside by something that has caused a penetrating wound with associated injury to the bone

Question 21

Compartment syndrome

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Injury caused when tissues such as blood vessels and nerves are constricted within a space as from swelling or from a tight dressing or cast

Question 22

Crepitus

Answer 22

A grating sensation or sound made when fracture bone ends rub together

Question 23

Manual traction

Answer 23

The process of applying tension to straighten and realign a fractured limb before splinting also called tension