Chapter 7 muscles

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    • description "Chapter 7 muscles"
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    • Tenodesis
    • Ten/o is tendon
    • -desis is binding
    • Surgical binding of a tendon
  1. Tenodynia
    • Ten/o is tendon
    • -dynia is pain
    • Pain in tendon
  2. Tetany
    Sharp painfull flexation of wrist and ankle joints caused by abnormality in calcium metabolism
  3. Rigor mortis
    Stiffness of skeleton 4-24 hours after death
  4. Quadriceps
    • Quad is 4
    • -ceps is head
    • Muscle with 4 points of origin
  5. Prosthesis
    • Prosth/e is an addition
    • -sis is condition
    • Artificial device used to replace a body part
  6. AK
    Above the knee
  7. BK
    Below the knee
  8. IM
    Intramuscular
  9. MD
    Miscular dystrophy
  10. MG
    Myastuenia gravis
  11. MS
    Multiple sclerosis
  12. SGPT
    Serum glutamatic pyruvic transaminase
  13. Myotome
    • My/o is muscle
    • -tomy is incision

    Surgical incision to the muscle
  14. Myosarcoma
    • My/o is muscle
    • Sarc is flesh
    • -oma is tumor

    Malignant tumor derived from muscle
  15. Mysclerosis
    • My/o is muscle
    • Scler is harding
    • Osis is condition

    Abnormal condition of hardening of muscle
  16. Fascia
    • Fasc is a band
    • -ia is condition

    A thin layer of connective tissue covering or connecting the muscles or organs of the body
  17. Fascitis
    • Fasc is a band
    • -itis is inflammation

    Inflammation of the Fascia
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Chapter 7 muscles
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