BOC Review Flashcards
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Pes Planus
Flat Footed
Pes Cavus
High Arched
Genu Valgus
Knees in
Genu Varus
Knees out (Bowlegged)
Coxa Valga
Deformity of the hip where the angle formed between the head and neck of the femur and its shafts is increased, usually above 135 degrees. It is caused by a slipped epiphysis of the femoral head.
Coxa Vara
A deformity of the hip, where the angle between the head and the shaft of the femur is reduced to less than 120 degrees. Commonly caused by injury, such as a fracture.
McBurney’s Point
A name given to the point over the right side of the abdomen. This point roughly corresponds to the most common location of the base of the appendix. Appedicitis.
Kerr’s Point
Referred pain in the left shoulder. Ruptured spleen.
Erb’s Point
TOS above the clavicle.
Mallet Finger
Injury to the extensor tendon of the DIP. Pt is unable to extend DIP. The distal phalanx stays in flexion.
Boutonniere Deformity
Injury to the extensor hood of the finger. Pt is unable to extend the IP joint of the finger.
DIP - Extension
PIP- Flexion
MCP - Extension
Swan Neck Deformity
Stretching of the volar plate causing hyperextenion.
Flexion of the DIP, Hyperextension of the PIP
Dupuytren’s Contracture
AKA palmar fibromatosis or morbus Dupuytren.
A flexion contracture of the hand due to a palmar fibromatosis, and pt cannot fully extend. Usually in 4th and 5th digits.
Trigger Finger
A common disorder characterized by catching, snapping or locking of the involved finger flexor tendon associated with dysfuncition and pain.
AKA stenosing tenosynovitis.
Normal Leukocyte Count per cu mm
4000 to 10000/cu mm
Spondylolisthesis
When the vertebrae slips forward (anteriorly) over the bone below it.
Spondylolysis
Fx in the pars interarticularis.
Spondylosis
Degenerative osteoarthritis of the vertebrae or neural foramina.
Osetoarthritis
A type of arthritis, aka degenerative joint disease. Results from the breakdown of joint cartilage and underlying bone.
Rhuematoid Arthritis
An type of arthritis that is actually an auto-immune disease.
Cyanosis
Blue of purple coloration of the skin, having low oxygen saturation.
Levator Palpebrae superioris
Superioris - elevates the eyelid
Inferioris - Depresses the eyelid
Orbicularis Oculi
Closes the eye
Bankhart lesion
A lesion to the anterior capsule of the shoulder with an associated tear of the glenoid labrum.
Usually the result of a dislocation, and is accompanied by an Hill-Sachs Lesion.