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66 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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26
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vertebrae
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12 pair
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ribs
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kyphosis
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excessive posterior thoracic curvature-hunchback
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lordosis
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excessive anterior lumbar curvature-swayback
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scoliosis
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lateral curvature
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colles'
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common type of wrist fracture
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comminuted
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shattered, splinted, or crushed into many small pieces or fragments
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compound
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skin has been broken through to the fracture
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greenstick
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incomplete fracture, mostly found in children
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impacted
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bone fragments are pushed into each other
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oblique
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fracture at an angle to the bone
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open
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skin had been broken through to the fracture
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pathologic
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caused by disease or weakened bone
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simple
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closed fracture, no open skin wound
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spiral
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the fracture line spirals around the shaft of the bone
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transverse
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compete fracture that is straight across to the bone at right angles to the long axis of the bone
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arthroscopic surgery
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surgical procedure while using an arthroscope to view the internal structure such as a joint
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abduction
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movement away from midline
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adduction
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movement toward midline
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flexion
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bending or being bent
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extension
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bring limb into our toward a straight condition
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dorsiflexion
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backward bending
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plantar flexion
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bending sole of foot, pointing toes downward
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eversion
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turning outward
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inversion
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turning inward
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three types of muscle
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skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
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arthr/o
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joint
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chondr/o
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cartilage
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cost/o
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rib
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crani/o
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skull
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femor/o
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femur
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humer/o
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humerus
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ili/o
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ilium
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kyph/o
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hump
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lord/o
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bent backwards
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scoli/o
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crooked, bent
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myel/o
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bone marrow, spinal cord
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orth/o
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straight
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oste/o
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bone
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patell/o
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knee cap
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radi/o
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radius, xray
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stern/o
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sternum
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thorac/o
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chest
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tibi/o
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tibia
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uln/o
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ulna
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vertebr/o
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vertebra
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-blast
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immature, embryonic
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-clasia
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to surgically break
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-desis
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stabilize, fuse
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-listhesis
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slipping
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-porosis
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porous
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fibr/o
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fibers
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kinesi/o
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movement
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muscul/o
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muscle
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my/o
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muscle
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tend/o
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tendon
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tendin/o
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tendon
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-asthenia
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weakness
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-ion
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action, condition
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-kinesia
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movement
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-tonia
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tone
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ab-
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away from
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ad-
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toward
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circum-
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around
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e-
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outward, without
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in-
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inward, without
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