Medical Terms

Some of my Medical Terms that I know about :) Check it out

Posterior, Anterior, Superior, Inferior, Medial, Lateral
https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1KW8pAYvOZyeaTPefczoo1tokinxUEshUVhytaTTsC6w&w=1684&h=700

Intermediate, Proximal, Distal, Superficial, Deep
https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1FUFsTKf6rJ8r4Z3piaXXT0ROkVETwo1fPUNJwQX6G_s&w=1590&h=652

Bone Structure Quiz... uhhhh

Since I don't do good on test/quiz/etc... and after taking the bone structure quiz, it didn't show much that I learned anything.  I am starting to get the idea of what kind of different fractures do what and what they mean.  So I put some pictures up with the meaning underneath them to show what I know.  Some fractures are caused by sports injury, old age, common.. just because.  Bones can fracture doing anything not just a hard fall, or playing rough or anything like that.. it can just happen.  So BE CAREFUL!!!

Broken Bones

Spiral Fracture- most common in sports injury

Compound Fracture- A fracture in which the bone is crushed; common in the vertebral column

Greenstick Fracture- A break common in children; bone splinters, but break is incomplete

Comminuted Fracture- Often seen in the brittle bones of the elderly

Simple Fracture- Also called a closed fracture

Depressed Fracture- A common type of skull fracture

Open Reduction- Surgical realignment of broken bone ends

Closed Reduction- Nonsurgical realignment of broken bone ends and splinting of bone

Nondisplaced Fracture- Bone ends retaining their normal position

Linear Fracture- Epiphysis separates from diaphysis along epiphyseal line;

occurs where cartilage cells are dying

Compression Fracture- A fracture in which the bone is crushed; common in the vertebral column