Fractures

Front 1

Bone is bent on one side and has incomplete fracture on opposite side

Back 1

Greenstick

Front 2

Fine crack in which sections of bone remain aligned; common in skull.

Back 2

Hairline

Front 3

Bone is broken into three or more pieces.

Back 3

Comminuted

Front 4

The portions of a fractured bone are out of anatomical alighnment.

Back 4

Displaced

Front 5

One bone fragment is driven into the medullary space or spongy bone of the other.

Back 5

Impacted

Front 6

Fracture of the distal end of the radius and ulna; common in osteoporosis.

Back 6

Colles

Front 7

Fracture at the distal end of the tibia, fibula, or both; a common sports injury.

Back 7

Pott

Front 8

A break in a bone weakened by some other disease, such as bone cancer or osteoporosis, usually caused by a stress that would not normally fracture a bone.

Back 8

A Pathologic Fracture

Front 9

A break caused by abnormal trauma to a bone, sucy as fractures incurred in falls, athletics, and military combat.

Back 9

A Stress Fracture

Front 10

The four steps in healing of fractures.

Back 10

1. Hematoma Formation
2. Formation of granulation tissue
3. Callus formation
4. Remodeling

Front 11

Defective mineralization of bone in children, usually as a result of insufficient sunlight or vitamine D.

Back 11

Rickets

Front 12

Adult form of rickets, most common in poorly nourished women who have had multiple pregancies.

Back 12

Osteomalacia

Front 13

Excessive proliferation of osteoclasts and resorption of excess bone, with osteoblasts attempting to compensate by depositing extra bone.

Back 13

Paget disease (Osteitis deformans)

Front 14

Inflammation of osseous tissue and bone marrow as a result of bacterial infection.

Back 14

Osteomyelitis

Front 15

Loss of bone mass, especially spongy bone, usually as a result of lack of exercise or a deficiency of estrogen after memopause.

Back 15

Osteoporosis

Front 16

Painful overstretching of a tendon or muscle without serious tissue damage.

Back 16

Strain

Front 17

Torn ligament or tendon, sometimes with damage to a meniscus or other cartilage.

Back 17

Sprain

Front 18

Broad term for any pain in the supportive and locomotory organs of the body, including bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles.

Back 18

Rheumatism

Front 19

Broad term embracing more than 100 types of joint rheumatism.

Back 19

Arthritis

Front 20

A hereditary disease, most common in men, in which uric acid crystals accumulate in the joints and irritate the articular cartilage and synovial membrane.

Back 20

Gout

Front 21

Inflammation of a bursa, usually due to over exertion of a joint.

Back 21

Bursitis

Front 22

A form of bursitis in which a tendon sheath is inflamed.

Back 22

Tendinitis

Front 23

Can cause moderate intermittent facial pain, clicking sounds in the jaw, limitaion of jaw movement and in some people, more serious symptoms - severe headaches, vertigo, tinnitius, and pain radiation from the jaw down the neck, shoulders, and back.

Back 23

TMJ Syndrome
Caused by a combination of psychological tension and malocclusion (misalignment of teeth). Treatment may involve psychologica management, physical therapy, analgesic and anti-infammatory drugs, and sometimes corrective dental appliacnes to align the teeth.