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57 Cards in this Set
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Reddish purple blotches due to leakage of blood from an artery or vein.
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Ecchymosis
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The Integumennt contains 2 types of exocrine glands sweat and _____
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Sebaceous
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A blood clot consists mainly of an insoluble network of ____
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Phagocytes
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an ____ is an injury where a flap of skin is torn lose or torn off
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avulsion
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A ____ is a skin injury caused by heat chemicals or radiation.
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Burn
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The general shape of bones is
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Irregular
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What is the central shaft of a long bone called?
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Diaphysis
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What is the expanded portion at each end of long bones
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Epiphyses
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What is the most abondent mineral in the human body?
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Sodium
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A partial displacement of a bone end form its position in a joint capsule
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Subluxation
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a ____ fracture has multiple bone fragments at the fragment site.
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comminuted
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What is the most commonly fractured bone in your body.
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Clavicle
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What fracture involving the acetabulum is commonly seem in the elderly.
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Proximal Femur
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The pelvic girdle is including in what division of the skeleton
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appendicular
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The ___ bone formed the forehead and the roof of the orbits.
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Frontal
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The ____ connects the cranial cavity with the spinal cavity. and has the spinal cord passing through it.
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Foreman magnum
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The lateral wall of the orbit is formed by what facial bone?
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Zygomatic
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What is the fibrous connective tissue containing the bones of the skull at birth called.
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Fontanels
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The superior portion of the sternum is called what.
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Manubrium
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The arm contains what single bone.
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Humerus
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The head of the femur connections with what curved surface of the pelvis.
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Acetabulum
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The ____ is the most superior and largest component of the coaxial bone.
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Ilium
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The patella connects to what point on the tibia just below the knee joint?
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Tibial tuberosity
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I single axon of a motor neuron branches within the perimysium to form fine branches the end at an expanded _____
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synaptic terminal
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____ is the neuro transmitter or chemical released by a motor neuron to communicate with other cells.
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acetylcholine
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arm muscles, after being in a cast, can develop smaller and weaker muscle fibers is called what
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atrophy
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The breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid in the cytoplasm of a cell is called.
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Glycolysis
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The specialized sites that are contacts between cardiac muscle cells are called what?
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Intercalated discs
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The specialized cells that determine the timing of cardiac muscle contractions are called what?
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pacemaker cells
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what muscle separates the thoracic and abdominal pelvis cavities?
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Diaphragm
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THe ____ is the largest of the glutus muscles and produces extension, rotation, and abduction.
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Gluteus maximus
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Which Vertebra are the thickest and strongest in the veterbral body
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Lumbar
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The human skeletal normally has how many bones?
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206
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The bone located on the medial side of the forearm while standing in the anatomical position?
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ulna
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the bones of the toes are called ?
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phalanges
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The knee cap
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Patella
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the medical term medial indicates a direction or area?
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Towards or at the body's mid line.
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the medical term superior indicated a direction or area.
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above
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small sac filled synovial fluid that reduces friction.
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bursae
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a cell size that increases due to an increase in workload is called.
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hypertrophy
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The large intestines are what kind of muscle?
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Smooth muscle
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What is the diagnostic key to fibromyalgia?
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Tender points
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The larges hip flexor muscle is?
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Iliopsoas
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an _____ is a muscle who's contraction is chiefly responsible for producing a particular movement.
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agonist
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Skeletal muscle fiber is said to be _____ when it can no long er contract despite continued neural stimulation.
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fatigued
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pigment produced by melamocytes that determine the color of the skin.
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Melanin
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what type of tissue connects bone to bone,
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Ligament
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what type of muscle is also know as striated voluntary muscle because it is controlled by the nervous system and has a striated appearance.
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skeletal muscle
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a bundle of smooth muscle that creates a goose bump.
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arrector pili
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which tissue layers are affected by a partial thickness burn.
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Epidermis and Dermis
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Which classification of burn is categorized mainly by blisters
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Partial thickness burn
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which of the following type of fractures occurs in pediatric age groups but not adults
Green Stick Transverse Oblique Inpackted |
Green Stick
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Partial or complete tearing of the ligaments of the joint capsule is called?
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Sprain
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the first stage of wound healing
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homeostasis
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to move away from the longitudinal axis of the body
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abduction
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an over curveture of the spin
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kyphosis
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a muscle that covers the proximal arm and the back of the shoulder.
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deltoids
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