Sports Medicine II Vocab

Ligaments

Tissues in the body that connect bone to bone

Epiphysis

Are of bone where growth occurs. "Epic growth zone of a bone"

Epidermis

The most superfical layer of skin

Elevation

When a bony segment is moved in a superior direction

Distal

Away from the attachment of a limb

Depression

When a bony segment is moved in an inferior direction

Deep

Away from the body's surface.

Circumduction

The movement of a limb in a circular pattern

Adduction

Movement toward the midline of the body (Addition math)

Abduction

Away from the midline (like being abducted and trying to get AWAY from the kidnapper)

Eversion

A movement that turns the sole of the foot outward, away from the midline of the body (Imagine your foot is shy and wants to turn away from the center of attention (the midline) and the foot is trying to "escape" or "exit"

Dorsal

The posterior aspect (back) of a structure

Diarthrodial Joint

A freely movable joint, such as shoulder

Dermis

A layer that helps hold the skin to underlying bone and muscle tissue

Caudal

A point that is lower than another: synomnymous with inferior

Ball-And-Socket-Joint

A joint in which a rounded bone fits into a cuplike socket and swivels

Axial Skeleton

The bones of the body that compose the spine, chest, and head

Appendicular Skeleton

The bones of the extremities

Anterior

Pertaining to the front of the body

Anatomy

The science of how the body is organized, concentrating on bones, joints, muscles, and organs and their arrangments.

Anatomical Position

A standing posture with the arms at the sides and palms facing forwards

Amphiarthrodial Joint

A joint of cartilage that links bone that don't move much, such as where the ribs join the sternum.

Lateral

Away from the midline of the body

Joint Capsule

A soc or sleevelike structure that covers a joint

Inversion

A movemnt that turns the sole of the foot inward towards the midline of the body.

Inferior

One point, or structure, being lower than another

Hyaline Cartilage

A thin layer or cartilage that covers the ends of a bone where it articulates with another bone

Fibrous Joint

A synthrodial joint

Flexion

A bending movement around a joint in a limb away from its straightened positon

Frontal Plane

The plane that separates the body into front and back halves

Girth

The distance around a body part

Hinge Point

An articulation whereby the joint is able to move primarily in flexion and extension

Medial

Toward the midline of the body

Multiaxial

A joint that has a large range of movement because it can move in a variety of planes

Opposition

Occurs when your thumb across your hand to meet your smallest finger

Posterior

The back of the body

Pronation

A movement that turns the hand down as if it were emptying a bowl of soup

Protraction

Movement of the scapulas away from one another

Proximal

Toward the attachment of the limb to the trunk

Reposition

Returning your thumb and fifth digit to their starting position

Retraction

When the scapulas are moved, or pulled together

Rotation

The spinning of a bony segement around an axis

Sagittal Plane

A plane that divides the body into left and right halves

Superfical

Clsoe to the bodys surface

Superior

One point being higher than another

Supination

A movement that turns the palm of the hand up like holding a bowl of soup

Synarthrodial Joint

a type of joint in which bones are held together by tought connective tissue making the joint essentically immovable.

Synvovial Membrane

a tissue that completely surrounds diarthrodial joints a secretes a slippery fluid

Tendons

tissue in the body that connect a muscle to a bone

Transverse Plane

The planes that divides the body into top and bottom halves

Ventral

the anterior aspect of a structure