| A | B |
|---|
| osteomalacia | abnormal softening of bones due to mineral deficiency |
| osteomyelitis | inflammation of the bone & bone marrow |
| Paget's disease | aka "osteitis deformans"; disease that causes bones to break down and repaired abnormally = deformed bones that break easily |
| Ewing's sarcoma | group of malignant cancers that most commonly affect children & teens; normally appears in the shaft of long bones; affects the connective tissue |
| myeloma | malignant tumor of the bone marrow tissues; causes fractures & is usually fatal |
| osteochondroma | benign (harmless) tumor on the bone surface that's covered by cartilage |
| osteoporosis | marked loss of bone density & increase in porosity associated with aging |
| vertebral crush fractures | vertebrae become so weak that the collapse under minimal stress; causes pain, loss in height & dowager's hump |
| Colles' fracture | wrist fracture (@ the end of the radius); happens when someone tries to break a fall by landing on their hands |
| fracture | fx; a broken bone |
| greenstick fracture | bone is only partially bent or broken |
| closed fracture | bone is broken but not the skin |
| open fracture | bone is broken and caused an open wound in the skin |
| comminuted fracture | bone is broken into more than 2 parts |
| compression fracture | bone is compressed together on itself |
| spiral fracture | bone has been twisted apart |
| stress fracture | small cracks in bones due to chronic excessive impact (often seen in athletes) |
| Pott's fracture | fracture of the tibia roughly equivalent to Colles' fracture |
| impacted fracture | fracture where a smaller bone is pressed into a larger bone |
