
Orthopedic Terms
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- Q1surgical procedure that uses a piece of bone to replace lost bone or to fuse two bones togetherbone graft30s
- Q2nuclear medicine scan using radioactive dye to visualize bones; especially useful for finding stress fractures and bone cancerbone scan30s
- Q3repetitive motion disorder caused by pressure on tendons and nerves as they pass through carpal tunnel of wristcarpal tunnel syndrome30s
- Q4broken bone with no open skin wound; also called simple fractureclosed fracture30s
- Q5bone break where bone shatters into many small fragmentscommunited fracture30s
- Q6broken bone with open skin wound; also called open fracturecompound fracture30s
- Q7bone break causing loss of height of vertebral body; may result from trauma, but in older persons, especially women, may occur in a bone weakened by osteoporosiscompression fracture30s
- Q8abnormal shortening of muscle fibers, tendons, or connective tissue making it difficult to stretch musclecontracture30s
- Q9muscle enzyme found in skeletal and cardiac muscle; elevated blood levels associated with heart attack, muscular dystrophy, and other skeletal muscle pathologiesCreatine Kinase (CK)30s
- Q10involuntary muscle contraction in response to striking muscle tendon with reflex hammer; test used to determine whether muscles respond properlydeep tendon reflexes (DTR)30s
- Q11occurs when bones in joint are displaced from normal alignment and ends of bones are no longer in contact with each otherDislocation30s
- Q12test using low-dose x-ray beams to measure bone density; used to diagnose osteoporosisdual-energy absorptiometry (DXA)30s
- Q13chronic condition with widespread aching and pain in the muscles and fibrous soft tissuefibromyalgia30s
- Q14procedure to stabilize fractured bone while it healsfixation30s
- Q15broken bonefracture (FX, Fx)30s