CH4 - THE SKELETAL SYSTEM
SMARTBOOK
physical therapists -✅✅ -Evaluate and treat pain, disease, or injury by physical
therapeutic measures as opposed to medical or surgical measures
physical therapist assistants - ✅✅ -Work under the direction of a physical therapist
to assist patients with their physical therapy
orthopedic technologists - ✅✅-Assist orthopedic surgeons in treating patients
podiatrists -✅✅ -Practitioners in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders and
injuries of the foot
what is the combining form for muscle? -✅✅-muscl/o
How are bones of the skeletal system classified? - ✅✅-by their shape
What are the three primary bone cancers? - ✅✅-osteogenic sarcoma
ewing sarcoma
chondrosarcoma
comminuted - ✅✅-The bone breaks into several pieces.
transverse - ✅✅-The fracture is at a right angle to the long axis of the bone.
impacted - ✅✅-The fracture consists of one bone fragment driven into another,
resulting in a shortening of a limb.
✅✅-The fracture spirals around the long axis of the bone.
spiral -
oblique - ✅✅-The fracture runs diagonally across the long axis of the bone
What type of surgeons are medical doctors (MDs) who deal with the prevention and
✅✅
correction of injuries of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints, and
ligaments? - -orthopedic
Select the structures of the axial skeleton - ✅✅-skull
rib cage
vertebral column
Deconstruct the term musculoskeletal - ✅✅-muscul / o -- skelet -- al
, main long bones of the skeletal system - ✅✅-palms
toes
fingers
limbs
osteoporosis - ✅✅-loss of bone density
osteopenia - ✅✅-low bone density
osteomyelitis - ✅✅-inflammation of bone and bone marrow
osteomalacia - ✅✅-softening of the bone
achondroplasia - ✅✅-Condition where the long bones stop growing in childhood
but the axial skeletal bones are not affected
frontal -✅✅ -Forms the forehead, roofs of the orbits (eye), and part of the floor of
the cranium; contains a pair of right and left frontal sinuses above the orbits
parietal - ✅✅-Form the bulging sides and roof of the cranium
occipital - ✅✅-Forms the back of and part of the base of the cranium
temporal - ✅✅-Form the sides of and part of the base of the cranium
sphenoid - ✅✅-Forms part of the base of the cranium and the orbits
ethmoid - ✅✅-Hollow; forms part of the nose, the orbits, and the ethmoid sinuses
closed - ✅✅-A bone is broken, but the skin is not broken.
open - ✅✅-A fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin, or a wound extends
to the site of the fracture.
displaced -✅✅-the fractured bone parts are out of line
complete - ✅✅-A bone is broken into at least two fragments.
incomplete - ✅✅-The fracture does not extend completely across the bone.
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