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MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM VOCABULARIES - 3 - LESSON 217

In this post we are going to learn about more important musculoskeletal system vocabularies.  You should try to use a medical dictionary to know more about each of these words using diagrams.  This will make your learning process better to create an inner picture of each of these terms inside you permanently.  This will give you more proficiency of medical terms and this will help you to transcribe easily when a dictator dictates these terms in his live file when you start transcription file for training or for job.  This is my own experience.  Please try it out.   1.  Fossa:  Shallow hole or cavity like opening in a bone. 2.  Haversian canals:  Minute or tiny openings packed with blood vessels found in compact bone. 3.  Malleolus:  Ring-shaped processes on both faces of the ankle joint. 4.  Mastoid process:  Spherical and round-shaped protrusion or bulge on the temporal bone at the back of the ...