Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

We are learning lucrative American medical transcription course freely here in this blog.  We have crossed three systems yet and we are also going to learn all the other six systems of medical terminologies, anatomy, and physiology, and disease conditions, symptoms and signs one by one later from today onwards.  This post explains about musculoskeletal system vocabularies in one or two line format explanation, no way, this subject should be taught in this way only.  You may use any medical dictionary available online for free or any other good one to know more about these explanations in it. 1.  Fontanelle:  This is a soft spot present between the cranial or skull bones of an infant.  This soft spot is due to incomplete formation of bones in the cranium. 2.  Fissure:  This is an opening between bones.  This opening is a narrow opening. 3.  Facial bones:  These are the bones of the face.  The names of the facial bones ...

Now we will see about important musculoskeletal system vocabularies: 1.  Acromion – This is the outward extension of the shoulder bone.  Acromion creates the shoulder tip. 2.  Calcium – The important and major mineral element of the bones. 3.  Cranial bones – The another name for cranial bones are skull bones.  Temporal bone, sphenoid bone, parietal bone, occipital bone, frontal bone, and ethmoid bone are the names of the skull bones. 4.  Articular cartilage – These are the ends of long bones made up of a thin layer of cartilage. 5.  Cancellous bone – This is a porous and trabecular tissue of bones. Cancellous bone is spongy in structure. 6.  Cartilage tissue – This is a flexible and chewy connective tissue.  Cartilage tissue is found on joint surfaces.  This is also found in the embryonic skeleton. 7.  Condyle – This is a knuckle like process.  This structure is present at the end of a bone near t...

Bones of the Leg and Foot: 1.  Femur or thigh bone.  Femur is the longest bone in the human body.  This bone has a round-shaped head like structure at its proximal.  This head called femoral head mounts into a socket like depression in the hip bone called acetabulum. The acetabulum was termed for the reason that of its likeness to a rounded cup. 2.  Kneecap or patella.  This bone is a flat in size and small in structure.  Patella is positioned in face of the articulation sandwiched between the femur or thigh bone and one of the lower leg bones called the tibia.  Patella is enclosed or bounded by shielding tendons and seized in position by muscle attachments. 3.  Tibia or shin bone.  Tibia means a music instrument called flute, as this bone resembles that.  Tibia are the largest bones in the legs.  Each tibial bone is present under the skin.  Tibial bones are in front of the leg.  Each tibia joins with th...

Hand or Arm Bones and Pelvic Bones: Hand bones are of six types.  They are as follows: 1.  Humerus. 2.  Ulna 3.  Radius. 4.  Carpals. 5.  Metacarpals. 6.  Phalanges. Now we will see in detail about these arm bones one by one.  1.  Humerus:  The another name of this hand bone is upper arm bone.  This region is the large and rounded head part of the upper arm.  Upper arm bone attaches with the collar bone and the shoulder bone. 2.  Ulna:  The other name of the ulna is medial inferior or lower arm bone.  Elbow bone is the he proximal development of the ulna.  This bone is known as olecranon. 3.  Radius:  This bone is the inferior lateral arm bone. 4.  Carpals:  These bones are wrist bones.  Each wrist consists of four carpal bones in two rows. 5.  Metacarpals:  These bones spread out to the each finger from the carpals. Metacarpals are 5 in number in ea...

Bones of the Chest (Thorax), Pelvis (Hip), and Extremities (Hand and foot): Thoracic or Chest Cavity Bones: Thoracic bones consist of Clavicle, scapula, sternum, and rib bones.  Now we will see about each of these bones one by one. 1.  Clavicle:  The other name of clavicle is collar bone.  This bone is slender in structure.  These bones are two in number and on each side of the body.  Collar bone or clavicle attach the shoulder bone to the breastbone on each side of the body. 2.  Scapula:  This is called as shoulder bone.  This bone is triangular in structure.  Scapula is on each dorsal side of the body.  Acromion is an extension of the scapular bone.  Acromion joins the shoulder to the clavicle.  Acromion means shoulder joint.  (acr/o means joint or extremity and om/o means shoulder). 3.  Sternum:   The other name of the sternum bone is breastbone.  This bone is flat in struc...

There are totally 26 bone segments compose the vertebral column or spinal column.  We can arrange these 26 bones of the vertebral column in to five divisions, such as 1.  Cervical (7) 2.  Thoracic (12) 3.  Lumbar (5) 4.  Sacral (1) 5.  Coccygeal (1) Now we will see about these one by one now.  Okay. 1. Cervical (cervix) Vertebral Bones:  These are the first set of bones in the spinal column of 26 bones.  Cervical spine bones are 7 in number.  They are called as C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, and C7.  2.  Thoracic (thorax) Vertebral Bones:  This bone segment is the second set of the vertebral column.  Thoracic bones are 12 in number.  They are known to be T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, and T12.  These 12 bones attach with 12 pairs of rib bones on both sides. 3.  Lumbar (lumbar) Vertebral Bones:  These bones are 5 in number.  Lumbar bones are the third set of ...

Now we will learn about facial bones.  These bones are joined together by sutures. There are specific air cavities called sinuses located in specific spaces within the facial bone and cranial bones.  Sinuses soften the skull and gives humidity to the air passes through these bones. Nasal bones, vomer, lacrimal bones, zygomatic bones, mandibular bone, and maxillary bones. We will see about each bone one by one now.  1.  Nasal bones:  Nas/o means nose.  We can say these bones as nose bones.  These bones give support to the nasal bridge.  Nasal bones join with the frontal bone superiorly and form part of the nasal septum. 2.  Vomer:  This is a thin facial bon.  Vomer is single in number.  This bone is flat in structure.  Vomer forms the lower part of the nasal septum. 3.  Lacrimal bones:  These bones are two in number.  Lacrim/o means tear.  Lacrimal bones are situated on each side of...