Medical Terminology Words Chapter 1

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penetrating wound

Back 1

when an object breaks the skin and enters/lodges under the skin or deeper into the body as a bullet might do

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cerebral hemorrhages

Back 2

abnormal flow of blood in the brain or meninges

Front 3

depressed skull fracture

Back 3

potentially serious is actually a communinuted fracture in which one or more of the bone pieces are driven inward and press on the brain

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comminuted

Back 4

skull fracture when a skull is broken or splintered into more than 2 pieces

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simple/closed

Back 5

linear fracture is usually the least dangerous type of skull fracture

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linear skull fracture

Back 6

least serious type of fracture merely a crack in the bone which does not break into pieces no surgical intervention required

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compound fracture

Back 7

bone is broken and no external wound leads down to the fracture site or a piece of the bone extends through the skin

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simple fracture

Back 8

bone is broken but no eternal wound

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sphenoid bone

Back 9

large bone which extends through the skull but is visible from both sides as a small wedge in front of the temporal bones

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temporal bones

Back 10

two bones on either side of the head, extend from the occipital bone forward on the lower part of the skull and terminate near the front of the skull roughly in the region of the temples

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parietal bones

Back 11

two bones which join on the top of the head and extend part way down the sides forming a "roof" and walls around the brain

Front 12

occipital bones

Back 12

forms the lower back portion of the skull

Front 13

frontal bone

Back 13

located at the front of the head

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subjective

Back 14

one that cannot be observed or perceived by another

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objective

Back 15

findings actual findings that can be seen