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Bone Fractures

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Bone breaks incompletely, occurs most commonly during the infantile stages of life.
a)
Greenstick Fracture
b)
Stable Fracture
c)
Bluestick Fracture
d)
Comminuted Fracture 
2.
Which fracture is where the bone is visible through the skin?
a)
Compound Fracture
b)
Stable Fracture
c)
Kevin Ware
d)
Horse
3.
Bone breaks into many fragments.
a)
Shattered Fracture
b)
Traction Fracture 
c)
Comminuted Fracture
d)
The Magic School Bus
4.
 a fracture in which the bone breaks diagonally. 
a)
Oblique Fracture
b)
Fracture
c)
Diagonal Fracture
d)
Horizontal Fracture 
5.

A linear fracture is a break in the _______ direction as the bone.

a)

Perpendicular

b)

Opposite

c)

Same

d)

Negative

6.

_________ fractures are diagonal breaks in the bone.

a)

Incomplete

b)

Linear

c)

Closed

d)

Oblique

7.

If a fracture is comminuted, that means the bone is in _______ pieces.

a)

Multiple

b)

One

8.

What type of fracture DOESN'T penetrate through the skin?

a)

Open

b)

Closed

c)

Comminuted

d)

Oblique

9.
a)
Compression Fracture
b)
Compound Fracture
c)
Greenstick Fracture
d)
Comminuted Fracture
10.

Which type of fracture is demonstrated in this image?

a)

Simple

b)

Spiral

c)

Comminuted

d)

Compound

11.
When bone grows into pre-existing cartilage, the process is called
a)
Osteoblastation
b)
Primary Ossification
c)
Endochondral Ossification
d)
Intramenbranous Ossification
12.
What process would create these flat skull bones
a)
Secondary Ossification
b)
Primary Ossification
c)
Endochondral Ossification
d)
Intramembranous Ossification
13.
What feature has been created in stage D of this diagram
a)
Soft Callus
b)
Blood Clot
c)
Hard Callus
d)
Fibrous CT
14.

a)

oblique fracture (fx) of ulna

b)

transverse fx of radius

c)

transverse fx of tibia

d)

oblique fx of tibia

15.

a)

transverse fx femur

b)

oblique fx femur

c)

spiral fx humerus

d)

transverse fx humerus

16.

a)

transverse fx femur

b)

comminuted fx femur

c)

Pott's fx

d)

Colle's fx

17.

a)

Pott's fx

b)

Colle's fx

c)

transverse fx of ulna

d)

oblique fx of radius

18.

a)

Colle's fx

b)

transverse fx of ulna

c)

spiral fx of humerus

d)

comminuted fx of femur

19.

a)

Pott's fx

b)

epiphyseal fx

c)

compression fx

d)

displaced fx of fibula

20.

a)

transverse fx of radius

b)

comminuted fracture of femur

c)

displaced fracture of femur

d)

spiral fracture of femur

21.

a)

oblique fracture of ulna

b)

greenstick fx of radius and ulna

c)

compression fx of radius and ulna

d)

transverse fracture of tibia and fibula

22.

a)

compound fx

b)

closed fx

c)

comminuted fx

d)

greenstick fx

23.

a)

greenstick fx tibia & fibula

b)

greenstick fx radius & ulna

c)

greenstick fx humerus

d)

greenstick fracture femur

24.

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.

a)

Comminuted

b)

Pathologic

c)

Compound

d)

Stress

25.

First step of fracture healing is the formation of ___________.

a)

Hematoma

b)

Fibrocartilage callus

c)

Epiphyseal line

d)

Bony callus

26.

Which describes a hematoma?

a)

Collection of blood in the body

b)

Torn subdermal tissue

c)

Loss of fibrouscartiliage

d)

Damaged cartilage matrix

27.

What occurs in the third step of fracture healing?

a)

Fibrocartilaginous converts to bony callus

b)

Bone remodeling

c)

Torn blood vessels hemorrhage

d)

Compact bone is laid down

28.

In the fourth step of fracture healing this will occur

a)

Fibrocartilaginous converts to bony callus

b)

Bony callus formation

c)

Bone remodeling

d)

Mass or clot is forming

29.

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

a)

callus

b)

hematoma

c)

periosteum

d)

bony callous formation

30.

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

a)

fracture hematoma

b)

cartilage hematoma

c)

bony callous

d)

fracture

31.

What is happening in this stage of bone healing?

a)

Bone is fractured

b)

Hard callus forms, osteoblast cells create new bone

c)

Remodeling, osteoclasts remove extra bone until its completely healed

d)

Soft callus forms, chondroblast and fibroblasts produce the fibrocartilaginous calus

32.

What is happening in this stage of bone healing?

a)

Bone is fractured, hematoma forms

b)

Hard callus forms, osteoblast cells create new bone

c)

Remodeling, osteoclasts remove extra bone until its completely healed

d)

Soft callus forms, chondroblast and fibroblasts produce the fibrocartilaginous calus

33.

What is happening in this stage of bone healing?

a)

Bone is fractured, hematoma forms

b)

Hard callus forms, osteoblast cells create new bone

c)

Remodeling, osteoclasts remove extra bone until its completely healed

d)

Soft callus forms, chondroblast and fibroblasts produce the fibrocartilaginous calus

34.

What is happening in this stage of bone healing?

a)

Bone is fractured

b)

Hard callus forms, osteoblast cells create new bone

c)

Remodeling, osteoclasts remove extra bone until its completely healed

d)

Soft callus forms, chondroblast and fibroblasts produce the fibrocartilaginous calus