Quiz 3 Flashcards
(45 cards)
Compression
Squeezing or pressing force
Tension
Pulling or stretching force
Shear
Perpendicular force and directed parallel to a surface
Bending
Compression of one side and torsion on the other
Torsion
Twisting of the body
Deformation
Change in shape
Acute
Single force of sufficient magnitude that causes injury (macro-trauma)
Repetitive
Repeated loads over and over again
Chronic
Microtrauma
Vector resolution
Horizontal and vertical vector
Stiffness
Stress/strain in a loaded material
Stress
Loads that are put in bones (forces)
Strain
How much it deforms (deformation)
Collagen
Gives the ability to deform
Compression strength
Resist compression
Water content
25%-30% is water in bones
Cortical bone
The shaft of the long bone (smooth bone)
Trabecular bone
Has many pores in there (spongy bone)
Periosteum
A membrane that covers the bone
Osteoblasts
Bone building
Osteoclasts
Bone destroying
Axial skeleton
Skull, vertebrae, sternum, ribs
Appendicular skeleton
Limbs
Short bones
Wrist bones, ankle bones