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What is eccentric contraction?

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muscle elongates while under tension due to an opposing force greater than muscle generates

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What is isotonic contraction?

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tension remains unchanged and hte muscle’s length changes

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What is isometric contraction?

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The length of the muscle doesnt change

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What is muscle tone?

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continuous and passive partial contraction of muscles or muscle resistance to passie stretch during resting state

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What is the prime mover/agonist?

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often considered as functional muscle group

responsible for initiation and execurtion of a specific action at a joint

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What is hte antagonist?

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oppose or reverse action of primary mover

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What is the synergist mover?

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assist the primary mover in its acctios

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What is reciprocal inhibition?

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skeletal muscle function usually includes pairs of muscles; depending on muscle function one of the pair muscle work as the agonist muscle and other antagonistic muscle;
Ia-mediated reciprocal inhibition contributes to antagonist suppression during movement

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What is electromyography?

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depolarization in a motor unit creates an eletrical potential called motor unit action potential; measure nerve conduction

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What is hyaline cartilage?

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transparent cartilage, type II collagen, chondrotin sulfate

in larynx trachea bronchus

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What is articular cartilage?

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hyaline cartilage in the articulate joints

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What is elastic cartilage?

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yellow cartilage in outer ear, eustachian tube, epiglottis; principle protein is elastin and collagen fibers

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What is fibrocartilage?

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mix of white fibrous tissue and cartilaginous tissue in various proportions; type I + type II cartilage

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What is chondrocyte?

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only cells found in cartilage; secrete and degrade matriz

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What are aggrecans?

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cartilage-specific proteoglycan core proteins; encoded protein is an integral part of extracelular matrix, protein modiefied with carbohydrates

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What is lacunae?

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situated between lamellae, small space containing osteocyte

canniculi connect

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What is perichondrium?

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layer of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds cartilage of developing bone

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What is appositional bne growth?

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growth in diameter around disphysis occurs by deposition of bone beneath periosteum and thickening of cartilage occurs

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What is intersitial growth?

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cell division of chondrocytes and further secretion of ECM

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What is the territorial matrix?

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matrix near isogenous groups of chrondrocytes contains larger amount of glycosaminoglycans; basophilic

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What is interterritorial matriz?

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remainder of matrix, not basophilic; non-territorial matrix

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What is hydroxylapatite?

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naturally occuring mineral form of calcium calcium apatite;

main mineral of bone

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What is osteoid?

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Unmineralized, organic portion of bone matrix that forms prior to maturation of bone tissue

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What is woven bone?

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haphazard organization of collagen fibers and is mechanically weak

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What is lamellar bone?
bone with regular parallel alignment of collagen into sheets and is mechanically strogn
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What is ruffle border?
active of bone resorption, the osteoclast forms a specialized cell membrane; "ruffled border" extensively folded or ruffled border, facilitates bone removal
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What is haversian and volkmann canals?
series of tubes around narrow channels | volkmann canals are inside osteon; run at botuse angle to haversian canals transmite blood veessels
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What are bisphosphonates?
class of drugs that prevent loss of bbone mass; tx osteoporosis; inhibition digestion of bone by encouragin osteoclasts to undergo apoptosis
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What are selective estrogen receptor modulators? (SERMs)
A class of compounds that act on estrogen receptor; inhibit or stimulate estrogen like action
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What is osteoprotegerin?
decoy receptor for RANKL it inhibits NFkB
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What is osteitis fibrosa cystica?
hyperparathyroidism causing a skeletal problem; causes moth eaten appearance; overacive osteoclasts
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What is the role of callus?
healing formation of collagen and cartilage
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What are osteoblasts?
Used to cause formation of bone
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What is sclerosteosis?
Severe, progressive, autosomal recessive dysplasia; thickend scelrotic bones
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What are the roles of osteoclasts?
macrophage/hematopoetic cells that are involved in resorbing bone
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What is trabecular bone?
cancellous bone, synonymous with spongy; osseous tissue that form bone higher surface area to mass ratio
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What is the role of bone remodeling?
turnover of bone
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What is an osteoblastoma?
uncommon tissue forming primary neoplasm; two types iincluding giant cell osteoma
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What is sclerosteosis?
Severe, progressive, autosomal recessive dysplasia; thickend scelrotic bones
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What is osteoporosis?
lack of bone growth and high turn over leading to weakened bone
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What is paget disease?
increase unorganized bone grwoth leading to large amounts of woven bone
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What is osteomalacia?
Softening of bone often cause a vitamin D; occuring in adults
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What is a non-ossifying fibroma?
common developmental cortical defect; eccentric, lytic, most common space-occupying lesion of bone: 1 in 4 individuals peripheral sclerosis Incidental finding or pahtological fracture
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What is fibrosis dysplasia??
Developmental arrest of bone monostatic: most common, seen in adolescents ribs mandible and femur Polyostotic infancy/childhoood, cripling deformities
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What is mccune albright syndrome?
polyostotic FD with endocrinopathies and cafe au lait rare form activating germline mutations of GNA resulting in cAMP excxess and endocrine hyperfunction
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What is multiple myeloma?
cancer of plasma cells, abnormal plasma cells accumulate in bone marrow resulting in bone lesions
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What is a brown tumor of hyperthyroidism?
bone lesion that arises in setting of excess osteoclast activity due to hyperparathyroidism
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What is the role of anuerysmal bone cyst?
``` eccentric solitary expansile lesion mostly <20 years swelling, pain or tenderness metaphyseal region of long bones cysts filled with blood ```
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What is fibrosis dysplasia??
Developmental arrest of bone monostatic: most common, seen in adolescents ribs mandible and femur Polyostotic infancy/childhoood, cripling deformities
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What is desmoid fibromatosis?
tendonlike, well-differentiated agressive fibromatosis; marked cellularity starry night histology
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What is multiple myeloma?
cancer of plasma cells
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What is unicameral bone cyst?
``` solitary cyst benign metaphyseal region of long bone usually proximal femur or humerus bone cortex is eroded by cyst; elicits secondary periosteal new bone formation ``` pathology: cyst filled with clear fluid and lined with thin fibrous membrane
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What is the role of anuerysmal bone cyst?
``` eccentric solitary expansile lesion mostly <20 years swelling, pain or tenderness metaphyseal region of long bones cysts filled with blood ```
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What is enchondroma?
usually asymtomatic incidental finding; benign hyaline cartilage lesion
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What is endochondral ossification?
bone formation; STFM form a cartilage model of the bone, under influence of Indian Hedgehog; chondrocytes undergo hypertrophy and secrete type X collagen; coolar of bone is formed and become Diaphysis
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What is a scleratome?
Skeletal Tissue Forming Mesenchym originates from scleratome tissue of somitesin trunk and somatic mesoderm
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What is the ectomesenchyme?
the neurocrest in the head, skeletal elements form
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What is the somatic mesoderm?
helps form skeletal tissue forming mesenchyme in trunk
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What is a ossification center?
Are areas of a bone primordia in which the ossification process begins
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What is endochondral ossification?
bone formation; STFM form a cartilage model of the bone, under influence of Indian Hedgehog; chondrocytes undergo hypertrophy and secrete type X collagen; coolar of bone is formed and become Diaphysis
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What is intramembranous ossification?
bone form directly froma preskeltal conesnation that resembles membrane of mesenchymal cells
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What is a rotator cuff injury?
Either a tear or impingement or tendonitis of the four rotator cuff muscles
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What is acromioclavicular injuries?
a sprain to the acromioclavicular joint, also a seperated shoulder

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