Health Assessment NR 304 Exam 005 Study Guide over musculoskeletal and abdominal 2023 APPROVED

Abduction correct answers Movement of a limb going away from the midline or median plane of the body along the frontal plane. Also used to describe movement of fingers and toes when spreading apart. Adduction correct answers Movement of a limb going toward the midline of the body. Also used to describe movement of the fingers and toes coming together Allis sign correct answers Used to detect unequal leg length. The nurse is positioned at infant's feet while infant is supine. The nurse flexes the infants knees keeping the femurs aligned and compares the height of the knees. Atrophy correct answers Translucent, dry, paper like, sometimes wrinkled skin surface resulting from thinning or wasting of the skin due to loss of collagen and elastin. Barlow's sign correct answers The presence of a click or clunk when the hips are manually externally rotated with the knee flexed Bursae correct answers Small synovial fluid filled sacs. Some ligaments are protected from friction by these Calcaneus correct answers Heel bone inferior to the talus, stablized by a set of taut ligaments that are anchors from bony prominences at the distal ends of the tibia and fibula Circumduction correct answers Movement at which a limb describes a cone in space, while the distal end of the limb moves in a circle where the joint itself moves only slightly in the joint cavity. Crepitation correct answers Crunching feeling under the skin caused by air leaking into subcutaneous tissue Dorsiflexion correct answers Flexion of the ankle so that the superior aspect of the foot approaches the shin. Eversion correct answers Sole of foot faces laterally Extension correct answers Increases the angle between the articulating bones Flaccid correct answers Lacking firmness and muscle tone Fracture correct answers A partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone from trauma Genu Valgum correct answers Bowlegs. Before learning to walk, infants tend to exhibit this. Genu Varum correct answers Knock knees. By age 4, most children tend to exhibit this. Hyperextension correct answers Bending of a joint beyond 180 degrees Inversion correct answers Sole of the foot turns medially