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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?

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bone with regular parallel alignment of collagen into sheets and is mechanically strogn

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What is ruffle border?

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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?

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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?

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class of drugs that prevent loss of bbone mass; tx osteoporosis; inhibition digestion of bone by encouragin osteoclasts to undergo apoptosis

29
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What are selective estrogen receptor modulators? (SERMs)

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A class of compounds that act on estrogen receptor; inhibit or stimulate estrogen like action

30
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What is osteoprotegerin?

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decoy receptor for RANKL it inhibits NFkB

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What is osteitis fibrosa cystica?

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hyperparathyroidism causing a skeletal problem; causes moth eaten appearance; overacive osteoclasts

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What is the role of callus?

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healing formation of collagen and cartilage

33
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What are osteoblasts?

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Used to cause formation of bone

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What is sclerosteosis?

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Severe, progressive, autosomal recessive dysplasia; thickend scelrotic bones

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What are the roles of osteoclasts?

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macrophage/hematopoetic cells that are involved in resorbing bone

36
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What is trabecular bone?

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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?

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turnover of bone

38
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What is an osteoblastoma?

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uncommon tissue forming primary neoplasm; two types iincluding giant cell osteoma

39
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What is sclerosteosis?

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Severe, progressive, autosomal recessive dysplasia; thickend scelrotic bones

40
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What is osteoporosis?

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lack of bone growth and high turn over leading to weakened bone

41
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What is paget disease?

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increase unorganized bone grwoth leading to large amounts of woven bone

42
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What is osteomalacia?

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Softening of bone often cause a vitamin D; occuring in adults

43
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What is a non-ossifying fibroma?

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common developmental cortical defect; eccentric, lytic,
most common space-occupying lesion of bone: 1 in 4 individuals
peripheral sclerosis
Incidental finding or pahtological fracture

44
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What is fibrosis dysplasia??

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Developmental arrest of bone

monostatic: most common, seen in adolescents
ribs mandible and femur

Polyostotic
infancy/childhoood, cripling deformities

45
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What is mccune albright syndrome?

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polyostotic FD with endocrinopathies and cafe au lait
rare form
activating germline mutations of GNA resulting in cAMP excxess and endocrine hyperfunction

46
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What is multiple myeloma?

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cancer of plasma cells, abnormal plasma cells accumulate in bone marrow resulting in bone lesions

47
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What is a brown tumor of hyperthyroidism?

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bone lesion that arises in setting of excess osteoclast activity due to hyperparathyroidism

48
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What is the role of anuerysmal bone cyst?

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eccentric solitary expansile lesion
mostly <20 years
swelling, pain or tenderness
metaphyseal region of long bones
cysts filled with blood
49
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What is fibrosis dysplasia??

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Developmental arrest of bone

monostatic: most common, seen in adolescents
ribs mandible and femur

Polyostotic
infancy/childhoood, cripling deformities

50
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What is desmoid fibromatosis?

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tendonlike, well-differentiated agressive fibromatosis; marked cellularity
starry night histology

51
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What is multiple myeloma?

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cancer of plasma cells

52
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What is unicameral bone cyst?

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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

53
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What is the role of anuerysmal bone cyst?

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eccentric solitary expansile lesion
mostly <20 years
swelling, pain or tenderness
metaphyseal region of long bones
cysts filled with blood
54
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What is enchondroma?

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usually asymtomatic incidental finding; benign hyaline cartilage lesion

55
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What is endochondral ossification?

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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

56
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What is a scleratome?

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Skeletal Tissue Forming Mesenchym originates from scleratome tissue of somitesin trunk and somatic mesoderm

57
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What is the ectomesenchyme?

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the neurocrest in the head, skeletal elements form

58
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What is the somatic mesoderm?

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helps form skeletal tissue forming mesenchyme in trunk

59
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What is a ossification center?

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Are areas of a bone primordia in which the ossification process begins

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What is endochondral ossification?

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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?

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bone form directly froma preskeltal conesnation that resembles membrane of mesenchymal cells

62
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What is a rotator cuff injury?

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Either a tear or impingement or tendonitis of the four rotator cuff muscles

63
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What is acromioclavicular injuries?

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a sprain to the acromioclavicular joint, also a seperated shoulder

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