Question

question is : translate all of the bold faced medical terms into simple language as if you are explaining it to a patient or to someone who may not understand medical terminology and incorporate these simple translations into your story.

Laura had just recently recovered from an automobile accident in which she incurred numerous injuries including greenstick fractures of her left femur, a slipped femoral capital epiphysis, subluxation of the pubic symphysis, chondromalacia patellae, and compound fractures of the tibia, fibula and calcaneus.
Fortunately for her, there was no tendinopathy or ligamentous sprain of the upper appendicular skeleton and she had excellent strength in shoulder adduction bilaterally. This helped her ambulate with her crutches.
Jim was anxious to meet Laura at the gym. They had shared many hours of rehabilitation and encouragement between them. Jim had been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis and he was determined not to have kyphoscoliosis like his father. Jim was also an aspiring body builder who longed for hypertrophic skeletal uscles. Of course, this level of desire compounded with his exercise regimen and previous medical history produced osteoarthritic changes in the vertebral column with the development of exostoses that increased his kyphosis.

He was afraid of scoliosis occurring. There was no apparent exaggerated lordosis overall but there were signs of intervertebral disk herniations forming. While driving to the gym, Laura witnessed an automobile accident between an ambulance and a delivery truck. During the accident Laura experienced tachycardia. She could feel her own symptoms exacerbating and hoped that there was no possibility of a thrombus dislodging from her injuries caused by a deep vein thrombosis with the already critical situation. Laura had recently learned that she was anemic and hypovolemic and had been taking medications to help offset this condition.

Right now she was the “best” person to take charge and she had to determine what to do.

The driver of the ambulance was wearing a Medical Alert bracelet that read “anti-coagulants”. He was exsanguinating and yelled out to Laura that the box in the back of the rig contained a cardiac donor organ that was urgently needed across town at Mercy Hospital.

Laura, called Jim who had been expecting her and asked him if he could help her. Jim and Laura escorted the donor organ to Mercy Hospital. Actually it was a great idea to call Jim, since Laura was not ambulating well yet and Jim had great speed. When Jim met Laura, she was tachypneic and really needed assistance herself.

Her gait was virtually ataxic at this point due to weakness. Another ambulance came to rescue the injured parties.
Jim gave the donor organ to the cardiologist for typing and cross matching the tissue to offset the possibility of hemolysis and subsequent organ rejection and/or organ failure.

It was going to be given to a young father who following cardiac catheterization was diagnosed with 90% blockage in the right main coronary artery. His subsequent cerebrovascular angiogram was not just a screening tool.

He was experiencing amaurosis fugax and it was thought he may be showering emboli from his cardiac valves, possibly the mitral valve. Although neither Laura nor Jim actually ever made it to the gym to work out, they both felt that the day they themselves had already had an intense workout.

Answer 1

GREENSTICK FRACTURE - The name is by analougy with green means fresh and stick means wood which similarly break on the outside when bent. It occur most often during infancy and childhoot when bones are soft Which breaks similar to the green stick .

SLIPPED FEMORAL CAPITIS EPIPHYSIS - It is a hip condition Occur in individuals who are still growing like teens and pre- teens .In this condition the Ball of head of femur Slips off the neck of bone in backward direction.In this capitis means head of femur and epiphysis is growing end of bone.

SUBLAXATION OF PUBIC SYMPHYSIS - sublaxation means partial dislocation . So here there is partial dislocation of pubic symphysis which is joint between two anterior ramus of pubic bones.

CHONDROMALACIA PATELLAE - chondromalacia means damage to cartilage due to any injury or overuse. Patella is smal bone placed anteriorly in knee and is a part of knee joint. So in this condition theri is damage of cartilage Under the kneecap

COMPOUND FRACTURE OF TIBIA ,FIBULA,CALCANEUS - Compound fracture is also known as open fracture.In which their is open break or wound on skin near the site of broken bone. Tibia and fibula are bones tha are present in between knee and ankle joint while calcaneous is known as heal bone.

TENDINOPATHY - disease of tissue connecting muscle to bone.

LIGAMENTOUS SPRAIN - stretching or tearing of ligament, a tissue connecting bone to bone.

UPPER APPENDICULAR SKELETON - bones of upper limb + pectoral girdle.

BILATERAL SHOULDER ADDUCTION - movement of upper limb toward the midline of body of both side.

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS- Inflammatory arthritis effecting the spine and large joints.

KYPHOSCOLIOSIS - It is abnormal curving of spine . Kyphosis is when spine in upper back become more wedge shape or commonly known as hunchback.Scoliosis is Abnormal side wise curvature of spine.

HYPERTROPHIC SKELETAL USCLES- Increase in size if skeletal muscle.

OSTEOARTHRITIS - Type of arthritis that occur when flexible tissue at end of bone become wear down which occur gradually and worsen over time.

LORDOSIS - It is curving inward of lower part of spine .

INTERVERTIBRAL DISC HERNIATION - Due to tearing of disc between the two vertebrae its inner part protudes.

TACHYCARDIA- Rapid heart beat.

DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS- Blood clot in deep veins of leg.

THROMBUS- blood clot.

ANAEMIA- decrease hematocrit.

HYPOVOLUMIC- Decrease blood volume.

ANTICOAGULANT - Medication that prevent blood clotting.

TACHYPNEA- rapid shallow breathing.

ATAXIC- Impaired balance and coordination

CROSS MATCHING - Test done before blood transfusion or organ transplant to determine conpatibility of transplant.

HEMOLYSIS - RBC rupture.

ORGAN FAILURE/ REJECTION- failure of transplanted organ or tissue due to incompatibility.

CARDIAC CATHERIZATION - procedure to diagnose cardiovascular condition.

CORONARY ARTERY - Blood vessle that suppy oxygenated blood to heart.

CEREBROVASCULAR ANGIOGRAM- Type of angiography whic provide image of blood vessle in and around the brain .

AMAUROSIS FUGAX - Condition in which person can not See out of one or both eye due to lack of blood flow to eye.

EMBOLI - blood clot , fat drop or air that has bern carried by blood stream to lodge in vessle.

MITRAL VALVE- cardiac valve present on left heart between atria and ventricle.