Transcript Classifications of injuries

CLASSIFICATIONS OF INJURIES
 Acute – quick onset, short duration
 Adhesion – a sticking together or
binding of tissue fibers
 Antiseptic – a substance which prevents
the growth of bacteria
 Avascular – without blood or lympatic
vessels. This may be a normal state as in
certain forms of cartilage, or as a result
of disease or injury
 Benign – harmless
 Bunionette – bony enlargement of lateral
side of the head of 5th metatarsal at the
metatarsophalangeal joint; associated
with an overlying bursa sac and a medial
deviation of the 5th phalange
 Bursities – inflammation of a bursa
 Chrondromalacia – softening of a cartilage
 Chronic – of long duration, repeating; in
athletes, usually a injury that has not
responded to treatment
 Congenital – existing before or at birth;
date from but not necessarily detected at
birth
 Contusion – a bruise; an injury usually
caused by a blow in which the skin is not
broken
 Crepitus – grating sound produced by the
contact of the fractured end of bones
 Diagnosis (or evaluation) – the
determination of the nature of an injury or
disease
 Dislocation – the displacement of one or
more bones of a joint or of any organ from
the original position
 Ecchymosis – extravasation (escape in to
tissues) of blood also the tissue
discoloration caused by the extravastion of
blood
 Edema – swelling as a result of the
collection of fluid in the connective tissue
 Effusion – escape of the fluid into a cavity
 Epistaxis – nosebleed
 Exostosis – a bengin cartilage, capped
protuberance from the surface of long
bones, but also seen on flat bones due to
chronic irritation as from infection,
trauma, or osteoarthritis
 Faciitis – inflammation of fascia
 Fracture – the breaking of a bone or
cartilage
 Hematoma – a circumscribed
extravascular collection of blood, usually
clotted, which forms a mass
 Hematuria – passing of blood in the urine
 Hemorrhage – escaping of blood through
ruptured walls of vessels
 Hernia – the adnormal protrusion of an
organ or a part through the containing wall
of its cavity usually the abdominal cavity
beyond its normal confines
 Inflammation – reaction of the body tissue
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to an irritant
Joint subluxation – partial displacement of
the articular surfaces and crepitus there is
a first or second degree ligamentous injury
Laceration – a tear, or a wound made by
tearing the act of tearing or laceratin
Myositis ossificans – inflammation of
muscle with formation of the bone
Myositis – inflammation of muscle tissue
 Necrosis – death of tissue or cells
 Open wound – a wound of injury involving
a break in the skin
 Osgood schlatters – osteochondrosis of
the tuberosity of the tibia, seen especially
in adolescents (inflammation of both bone
and cartilage
 Osteochondritis dissecans – a joint
characterized by partial or complete
detachment of a fragment or articular
cartilage and underlying bone
 Paralysis – loss of power of voluntary
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motion
Plantar fasciitis – inflammation at origin of
plantar fascia
Separation – injury to a non movable joint
Sprain – a wrenching of a joint producing a
stretching or tearing of the ligaments
Spur – an outgrowth of bony tissue into
muscles or skin
 Strain – excessive stretching or overuse of
a part as of tendon/muscle
 Subacute – relatively acute a stage
between acute and chronic after the initial
trauma
 Subluxation – partial displacement of the
articular surfaces
 Syndrome – group of typical symptoms or
conditions that characterize a deficency or
disease
 Tendinitis – inflammation of a tendon or
musculoskeletal junction
 Tenosynovitis – inflammation of a tendon
and its sheath
 Trauma – wound or injury