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31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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fissure
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elongated cleft
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rorament
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rounded pasageway for blood vessels
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fossa
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shallow depression
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meatus
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passageway through substance of bone
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condyle
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smooth rounded articular brocess
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crest
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prominant ridge
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ramus
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extension of a bone marking an angle with the rest of the structure
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spine
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pointed or narrow process
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trochater
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rough large projection
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terbercle
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small rounded projection
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tuberosity
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smaller, rough projection
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scoliosis
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abnormal lateral curbature of the spine
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kyphosis
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humbacked, bent
normal thorasic curvature becomes exaggerated. posteriorly produced round back |
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lorosis
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(bending backward/sway back) anterior, exagerrattion of lumbar curvature
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flexion
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decrease the angle bwn 2 bones
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extension
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movement which increases the angle btwn two bones
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hypersextension
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abnormal forced extension of a joint
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abduction
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movement away from midline
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adduction
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movent toard midline
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rotation
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turning a structure around its long axis
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rotates arm so that palm fases posteriorly
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pronation
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rotates arm so that palm face anteriorly
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supination
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circumduction
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movement at a freely movable joint that describes the shape of a cone
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protraction
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sticking one's jaw out in an anterior direction
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retraction
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pulling one's jaw in a posterior direction
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retraction
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pulling one's jaw in a posterior direction
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plantar flexion; angle extension
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standing on one's tiptoes
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dorsiflexion
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movement of the foot towars the shin as when walking on the heels
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eversion
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turning the angle so sole of foot faces laterally
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inversion
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turinging of ankle so sole of foot faces medially
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opposition
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movement that brings the thumb and little finger together across the palm
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