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23 Cards in this Set
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Abduction |
Moving a body part away from an axis or the median line |
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Adduction |
Moving a body part toward the center or toward the median line |
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Ankylosis |
Immobility, consolidation, and fixation of a joint b/c of disease, injury or surgery; most often during to chronic RA |
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Ataxia |
Inability to perform coordinated movements |
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Bursa |
Enclosed sac filled with viscous fluid located in joint areas of potential friction |
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Circumduction |
Moving the arm in a circle around the shoulder |
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Crepitation |
Dry crackling sounds or sensation due to grating of the ends of damaged bone |
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Dupuytren contracture |
Flexion contracture of the fingers due to chronic hyperplasia of the palmar fascia |
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Eversion |
Moving the sole of the foot outward at the ankle |
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Extension |
Straightening a limb at the joint |
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Flexion |
Bending a limb at a joint |
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Ganglion |
Round, cystic, nontender nodule overlying a tendon sheath or joint capsule, usually on dorsum of wrist |
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Hallux valgus |
Lateral or outward deviation of the great toe |
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Inversion |
Moving of the doke of the foot inward at the ankle |
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Nucleus pulposus |
Center of the intervertebral disc |
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Olecranon process |
Bony projection of the ulna at the elbow |
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Pronation |
Turning the forearm so that the palm is down |
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Protraction |
Moving a body part forward and parrallel to the ground |
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Retraction |
Moving a body part backward and parrallel to the ground |
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Sciatica |
Nerve pain along the course of the sciatic nerve that travels down from the back or thigh through the leg and into the foot |
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Supination |
Turning the forearm so that the palm is up |
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Talipes equinovarus |
(clubfoot) congenital deformity of the foot in which the plantar is flexed and inverted |
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Torticollis |
Wryneck; contraction of the cervical neck muscles, producing torsion of the neck |
