Word Building Flashcards

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Tendon

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A cord like, nonelastic, white fibrous bands of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone

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What are the three types of muscle?

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Skeletal muscle,cardiac muscle,smooth muscle.

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Bursa

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A thin sack of synovial membrane filled with synovial fluid acts as a cushion to reduce friction were a tendon rubs against the bone in a joint.

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Flexion

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Bending a joint to decrease the angle between two bones or two body parts

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Extension

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Straightening and extending a joint to increase the angle between two bones or two body parts

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Abduction

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Moving a body part away from the midline

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Adduction

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Moving the body part toward the midline

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Rotation

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Moving a body part around its axis

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Supination

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Turn in the palm of the hand anteriorly or upward

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Pronation

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Turn in the palm of the hand downward

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Eversion

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Turn in a body part outward and toward the side

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Inversion

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Turning a body part inward

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Atrophy

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Loss of the muscle bulk in one or more muscles. Also known as muscle wasting.

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Avulsion

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Condition in which a muscle tears away from the tendon or the tendon tears away from the bone

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Contracture

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Abnormal, fixed position in which the muscle is permanently flexed

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Aponeurosis

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Wide white sheet of fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone or other structure

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Thenar muscle

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Thumb

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What are the four muscles that make up the quadriceps femoris

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Rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, Vastus intermedius, Vastus medialis.

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What are the three muscles that make up the hamstring?

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Biceps femoris, semi tendinosis, semimembranosus

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Troph/o-

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Process of development

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Vert/o

Vers/o

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To travel, to turn

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Pector/o

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Chest

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Duct/o

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Bring; more; a duct

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Cleid/o

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Clavicle

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alg/o-

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Pain

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asthen/o-

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Lack of strength

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rhabd/o

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Rod shaped

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-rraphy

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Procedure of suturing

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ORIF

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Open reduction and Internal fixation