Skeletal System

Question 1

ARTHRODESIS

Answer 1

the surgical fixation of a joint to produce an artificial bony union

Question 2

AMPHIARTHRODIAL JOINT

Answer 2

partially movable joint

Question 3

SYNARTHRODIAL JOINT

Answer 3

immovable joint

Question 4

ARTICULATION

Answer 4

a joint

Question 5

SEPTUM

Answer 5

any partition separating two cavities or masses

Question 6

FOSSA

Answer 6

a depression

Question 7

FORAMEN

Answer 7

a hole in a bone, a normal passage, usually into or through a bone

Question 8

FISSURE

Answer 8

a narrow slit

Question 9

TUBEROSITY

Answer 9

large rounded process

Question 10

TUBERCLE

Answer 10

smaller rounded process

Question 11

TROCHANTER

Answer 11

very large rounded process

Question 12

SPINE

Answer 12

sharp slender process

Question 13

CONDYLE

Answer 13

rounded, knoblike projection

Question 14

CREST

Answer 14

a narrow ridge or bone

Question 15

DIAPHYSIS

Answer 15

shaft of a bone

Question 16

EPIPHYSIS

Answer 16

end of bone (long bone) - separated from shaft by cartilage until growth is complete - provides for growth in length

Question 17

EPIPHYSEAL LINE

Answer 17

layer of cartilage between diaphysis and epiphysis

Question 18

METAPHYSIS

Answer 18

part of diaphysis next to an epiphyseal line

Question 19

BREGMA

Answer 19

junction of coronal and sagittal sutures

Question 20

INION

Answer 20

external occipital protuberance of the skull

Question 21

FONTANEL

Answer 21

an unossified spot on the cranium of an infant (soft spot)

Question 22

LAMBDA

Answer 22

junction of sagittal and lambdoidal sutures

Question 23

SUTURE

Answer 23

the line of union in an immovable articulation

Question 24

SACRALIZATION

Answer 24

last lumbar vertebra is partly or completely fused with first segment of the sacrum

Question 25

SPONDYLOLISTHESIS

Answer 25

the forward displacement of one vertebra upon the upper surface of the vertebra beneath it - usually occurs at the lumbosacral joint

Question 26

KYPHOTIC CURVE

Answer 26

a curvature of the spine backward, concave curve, normal in thoracic and sacral regions

Question 27

VERTEX

Answer 27

the top of the head

Question 28

*SPINA BIFIDA

Answer 28

laminae of a vertebra may fail to unite with each other in the midline posteriorly. Vertebral arch will be incomplete, spinal cord may herniate out through this defect

Question 29

*SCOLIOSIS

Answer 29

abnormal lateral curvature of the spine

Question 30

LORDOTIC CURVE

Answer 30

a curvature of the spine forward, convex, normal in the cervical and lumbar regions

Question 31

NONUNION

Answer 31

failure of the ends of a fracture to heal and unite

Question 32

PATHOLOGIC

Answer 32

one which is due to disease

Question 33

*COMPRESSION

Answer 33

fracture caused by pressure

Question 34

POTTS

Answer 34

fracture to the distal end of fibula with dislocation of foot outward and backward

Question 35

IMPACTED

Answer 35

break where one bone fragment is pushed or driven into another

Question 36

*COMPOUND

Answer 36

where bone is broken and extends to the outside

Question 37

COLLES

Answer 37

a transverse fracture of the distal end of the radius with displacement of the hand backward and outward

Question 38

*OVERRIDING

Answer 38

the slipping of either part of a fractured bone past the other

Question 39

*DEPRESSED

Answer 39

a portion of the bone is driven inward as in the skull

Question 40

*SPIRAL

Answer 40

fracture line extends obliquely along the shaft of bone

Question 41

*GREENSTICK

Answer 41

bone is partially bent and partially broken

Question 42

*COMMINUTED

Answer 42

bone is broken with two or more fracture lines