1.1.6 Fractures

This cell lays down new bone and helps repair damage.

• Osteoblast

• Osteoclast

• Osteocyte

• Osteobuddies

The xray shows a fracture that has bones broken into more than two pieces. What type of fracture is this?

• Simple

• Compound

• Impacted

• Comminuted

What type of fracture is shown?

• Compound Fracture

• Greenstick Fracture

• Transverse fracture displaced

• Compression fracture

A female patient is brought to the emergency room with an injury to her lower leg from an ATV accident. You notice a white tip of a bone protruding through the skin as you cut her pant leg off. Her injury is described as what kind of fracture.

• Comminuted

• Pathologic

• Compound

• Stress

A part of the reparative phase that replaces fibrocartilaginous callus. This phase lasts 3-4 months.

• callus

• hematoma

• periosteum

• bony callous formation

A blood clot that forms within 6-8 hours after a bone breaks , due to broken blood vessels.

• hematoma

• cartilage callus

• bony callous

• fracture

Any break in a bone

• fracture

• stress fracture

• callous

• bone remodeling

What type of fracture is this? (Hint: it's across the bone.)

• Dorsal

• Linear

• Closed

• Transverse

What is the name of the incomplete fracture usually seen in children?

• Linear

• Transverse

• Fibial

• Greenstick

When a broken bone moves out of its original position, it is ___________.

• Closed

• Displaced

• Rearranged

• Opened