Orthopedic Terminology 2
Terms
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- Ankylosis
- Stiffness or fixation of a joint by disease or surgery
- Arthrofibrosis
- Intra articular scarring leading to impaired motion or function
- Arthroplasty
- To modify a joint by microfracture or resurfacing
- Arthroscopic debridement
- To clean out the joint
- Arthroscopy
- Joint examination with a fibroptic endoscope placed into the joint
- Autograft
- Same individual's tissue
- Allograft
- Donor tissue from same species
- Avulsion fracture
- A ligament or tendinous attachment is pulled off with a piece of bone because the attachment was stronger than the bone
- Baker's Cyst
- Localized fluid accumulation in the posterior fossa of the knee (Popliteal Cyst)
- Bankart Lesion
- Bony on soft tissue avulsion associated with anterior shoulder instability
- Bankart procedure
- Eponym for anterior capsular repair of IGHL for anterior shoulder instability (Axillary nerve at risk)
- Bone callus
- Immature healing bone
- BPTB
- Bone pattelar tendon bone: tissue used as reconstruction by ACL
- Bristow procedure
- Eponym using conjoined tendon transfer (reconstruction) for anterior shoulder instability (Musculotaneous nerve at risk)
- Carcinoma
- Cancer of epithelial origin
- Cellulitis
- Diffuse and especially subcutaneous inflammation of connective tissue
- Chondromalacia
- Soft cartilage; a condition without reference to etiology
- Comminuted fracture
- Bone broking into more than 2 fragments
- Compound fracture
- Bone broke and skin open
- Discoid Meniscus
- Congenital variation of the normal semilunar cushion cartilage, in which the meniscus is a disc like shape
- Ectomy
- To cut out
- Edema
- Fluid "loose" in the tissue which has escaped from the vascular or lymphatic spaces causing local or generalized swelling
- Greenstick fracture
- Incomplete fracture that passes only partially through the shaft of a bone in a child; a bone fracture in a young individual in which the bone is partly broken and partly bent
- Hernia
- Protrusion of a loop of an organ or tissue through an abnormal opening
- Heterotopic bone
- The formation of new bone in an abnormal location, often as a result of trauma or surgery
- Hill-Sachs lesion
- Posterior humeral head compression fracture associated with anterior shoulder stability
- HAGL
- Humeral avulsion of glenoid ligament
- Jones fracture
- 5th metatarsal fracture of the diaphysis often requiring surgical treatment
- Mal union
- Improper bone healing
- Monteggia fracture
- A fracture in the proximal part of the ulna with dislocation of the head of the radius
- Mumford
- An eponym for distal clavicule excision
- Neutraceuticals
- Natural substances to help chondrocytes form and heal joint surfaces (e.g. Glucosamine, Condroitin sulfate)
- Non union
- Bone failing to heal
- Osis
- A condition of; implies no inflammation
- Osteoclasis
- A gradual stretching of bone after is has been fractured
- Osteopenia
- X-ray characteristics of reduced bone density
- Osteoporosis
- A pathologic diagnosis of reduced bone quality
- Otomy
- To surgically break a bone
- Plasty
- To form
- Resect
- To remove
- Sarcoma
- Cancer of connective tissue origin
- Septic
- Infectious
- Sprain
- Injury to a ligament
- Strain
- Injury to muscle or tendon
- Stress fracture
- Bone discontinuity from overuse as a result of inadequate healing between insults
- Subluxation
- Partial dislocation
- Synovium
- The dense connective tissue membrane that secretes synovial fluid and that lines the ligamentous surfaces of articular capsules, tendon sheaths where free movement is necessary