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| bone marrow or spinal cord |
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| hip bone or pelvic cavity |
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| hip bone or pelvic cavity |
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| rod shaped or striated (muscle) |
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| bones of sholder, pelvis, and upper and lower extremities |
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| bones of the skull, vertebral column, chest, and hyoid bone |
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| specialized connective tissue composed of osteocytes forming the skeleton |
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| tightly solid, strong bone tissue resistant to bending |
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| mesh-like bone tissue containing marrow and fine branching canals through which blood vessels run |
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| bones of wrists and ankles |
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| bones of the skull, ribs, shoulder blades, and pelvis |
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| bones of vertebrae and face |
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| round bones found near joints |
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| growth zone between the epiphysis and diaphysis during development of a lone bone |
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| membrane lining the medullary cavity |
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| cavity within the shaft of the long bones filled with marrow |
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| soft connective tissue within the mefullary cavities of bone |
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| found in cavities of most bones in infants; functions in formation of red blood cells, some white blood cells, and platelets; in adults, red bone marrow is found most often in the flat bones |
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| gradually replaces red bone marrow in adult bones, functions as storage for fat tissue, and is inactive in formation of blood cells |
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| a fibrous, vascular membrane that covers the bone |
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| a gristle-like substance found on bones where they articulate |
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| a joint; the point where two bones come together |
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| a fibrous sac between certain tendons and bones that is lined with a synovial membrane that secretes synovial fluid |
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| a flat, plate like structure composed of firbrocartilaginous tissue found between the vertebrae to reduce friction |
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| the soft, fibrocartilaginous, central portion of intervertebral disk |
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| a flexible band of fibrous tissue that connects bone to bone |
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| membrane lining the capsule of a joint |
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| lubricating fluid secreted by the synovial membrane |
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| tissue composed of fibers that can contract, causing movement of an organ or part of the body |
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| voluntary striated skeletal musle attached to the skeleton |
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| involuntary muscle found in internal organs |
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| muscle end attached to the bone that does not move when the muscle contracts |
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| muscle end attached to the bone that moves when the muscle contracts |
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| a band of fibrous tissue that connects muscle to bone |
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| a band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports ,and separates muscle |
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| lying down, especially in bed |
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| instrument used to measure joint angles |
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| grating sound made by movement of some joints or broken bones |
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| a projection arising from a bone that develops from cartilage |
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| reduced tone or tension of muscle |
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| tension; prolonged, continuous muscle contraction |
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| inflammation of the joints characterized by pain, swelling, redness, warmth, and limitations of motion |
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| most common form of arthritis that especially affects the weight bearing joints; characterize by the erosion of articular cartilage |
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| most crippling form of arthritis characterized by a chronic, systematic inflammation most often affecting joints and synovial membranes causing ankylosis and deformity |
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| acute attacks of arthritis usually in a single joint caused by hyperuricemia |
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| dead bone tissue from loss of blood supply |
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| swelling of the joint at the base of the great toe caused by inflammation of the bursa |
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| resukts from the compression of hte median nerve within the carpal tunnel at the wrist, characterized by pain, numbness, and tingling in the wrist and fingers and weak grip; commonly seen as a result of cumulative trauma of surrounding tendons |
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| inflammation of epiphyseal regions of the long bones |
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| a nindisplaced fracture involving one fracture line that does not require extensive treatment to repair |
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| a displaced fracture that requires manipulation or surgery to repair |
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| line made by a broken bone (oblique, spiral, or transverse) |
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| bending ad incomplete break of a bone- most often seen in children |
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| protrusion of a degenerated or fragmented intervertebral disk so that the nucleus pulposus protrudes, causing compression on the nerve root |
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| malignant smooth muscle tumor |
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| malignant skeletal muscle tumor |
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| a category of genetically transmitted diseases characterized by progessive atrphy of skeletal muscles |
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| disease marked by softening of the bone caused by calcium and vitamin D deficiency |
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| infection of bone and bone marrow causing inflammation |
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| abnormal posterior curvature of the thoracic spine (humpback condition) |
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| abnormal anterior curvature of the lumbar spine sway-back condition) |
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| abnormal lateral curvature of the spine |
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| forward slipping of a lumbar vertebra |
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| stiff, immoble condition of vertebrae due to joint degeneration |
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| injury to a ligament caused by joint trauma but without joint dislocation or fracture |
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| a neurodiagnositic graphic recod of the electrical activity of muscle at rest and during contraction to diagnose neuromusculoskeletal disorders; usually performed by neurologist |
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| ionizing imaging technique using radioactive isotopes |
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| radionuclide image of bone tissue to detect tumor malignancy |
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| an x-ray of a joint taken after injection of a contrast medium |
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| an x-ray of an intervertebral disk after injection with a contrast medium |
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| dual energy x-ray absorptiometry |
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| x-ray scan that measures bone mineral density of the spine and extremities to diagnose osteoporosis, determine fracture risk, and monitor treatment; classification of bone mass include normal, ostopenic, or oeteoporotic as indicated by a T score |
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| specialized x-ray procedure producing a series of cross-sectional images that are processed by a computer into a 2-dimentional or 3-dimentional image |
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| ultrasound imaging to visualize muscles, ligaments, displacements, and dislocations or to guide a therapeutic intervention such as that performed during arthroscopy |
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| puncture for aspiration of a joint |
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| binding or fusing of joint surfaces |
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| open reduction, internal fixation of a fracture |
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| internal surgical repair of a fracture by bringing bones back into alignment and fixing them into place, often utilizing plates, screws, pins, etc |
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| division by incision of a tendon to repair a deformity caused by shortening of a muscle |
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| closed reduction, external fixation of a fracture |
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| external maipulation of a fracture to regain alignment along with application of an external device to protect and hold the bone in place while healing |
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| closed reduction, percutaneous fixation of a fracture |
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| external manipulation of a fracture to regain alignment, followed by insertion of one or more pins through the skin to maintain position- often includes use of an external device called a fixator to keep the fracture immobilized during healing |
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| use of an orthopedic appliance to maintain a bone's position or provide limb support |
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| group of drugs that have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects |
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| COMPUTED AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY |
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| DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE |
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