NURS 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gynoecium, Joint Effusion, Acetabulum
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Atrophy: wasting// decrease in size of organ or tissue. Crepitus: sound of bone against bone; cracking knuckles. I: functions of the musculoskeletal system, allows for movement, gives form of body, protects vital organ, stores essential minerals (ca+) Joints: non-synovial joint- immovable and mainly for protection (skull, sutures of the skull, vertebral column, synovial joints- freely movable (shoulder, wrist, knee, ankle, hip). Intervertebral discs: shoulder- ball and socket, rotator cuff- allows for adduction, abduction, and circumduction, sub-acromial bursa, acromion process, greater tubercle of the humerus. Lecture 10: elbow, aka: olecranon process, has bursa, wrist and carpals. Hip- ball and socket: acetabulum and head of the femur, anterior superior iliac spine. 3: greater trochanter of femur, one of the most common breaks in the elderly. Ischial tuberosity: knee (patella, femur, tibia, and patella, medial and lateral menisci, surrounded by the cruciate ligaments (anterior and posterior, ankle and foot, medial and lateral malleolus, metatarsals.
