Exam 4: The Skeletal System: The Essentials of the Language of Orthopedics

What does the prefix in the term periosteum mean?

A fracture that occurs at a site already weakened by a disease process such as cancer is called a ___________________________ fracture.

Osteomalacia is also known as _______ in children.

The abbreviation fx stands for:

Correctly spell the term that is an endoscope used to examine the interior of a joint.

The death of bone tissue when the blood supply is cut off (usually as a result of trauma) is called:

In the word sarcoma, what does the suffix mean?

Which of the following terms referring to the shaft of a long bone is spelled correctly?

When the ball of the humerus slips completely out of the scapula's socket what will occur?

BMD is used along with ______ to diagnose osteoporosis.

An incomplete dislocation is termed:

Correctly spell the term that means treatments using radiation.

Correctly spell the term that means process of removing tissue from a living person for laboratory examination.

Which of the following terms refers to the same disease process as rickets?

The axial skeleton is the _______ axis of the body.

The radiologist noticed a ________ formation on the patient's rib, indicating a healed fracture.

The most common form of malignant bone tumor is:

A disease which occurs most commonly in women between the ages of 20 and 50 and is characterized by destruction of joint surfaces, joint capsule, and ligaments causing marked deformity and joint instability is:

The medical term for the collarbone is the:

Which of the following health professionals is the only one with a medical degree? (MD)