Musculoskeletal Terminology

Softening of bone

• Osteomalacia

• Chrondrocyte

• Encephalitis

• Tendotomy

Cartilage cell

• Craniotomy

• arthrodynia

• Chondrocyte

• Carpoptosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Branch of medicine concerned with prevention, diagnosis, care and treament of musculoskeletal disorders.

• Arthroscope

• Arthropathy

• Osteomalacia

• Orthopedics

Tendon

• Connects 2 bones

• Connects muscle to bone

• Spondylitis/, vertebr/o

• Cephalodynia

Carpus (wrist bones)

• Orth/o

• Stern/o

• Fibul/o

• Carp/o

The line of fracture does not include the whole bone

• Complicated fracture

• Impacted fracture

• Cole’s fracture

• Incomplete fracture

Pain in a joint

• Arthrocentesis

• -asthenia

• Arthoplasty

• Arthrodynia

Surgical puncture of a joint

• Arthrocentesis

• Articulation

• Encephalitis

• Cystorrhexis

What bone is highlighted?

• Skull (Cranium)

• Mandible

• Clavicle

• Scapula

The role of ligaments in the skeletal system is to

• attach muscles to bone
• produce red blood cells
• convert cartilage into bone
• Hold bones together