Bone
Description - bone
Bone,
healing fracture
Description - a break in a bone
that is healing
Bone,
long, showing compact and cancellous tissue
Description - compact tissue has
a dense structure without small cavities or cells, whereas
cancellous has these cavities and cells (prosviding space
for blood vessels)
Bone,
spongy
Alternative Name - cancellous bone
Description - makes up most of
the bone tissue of short, flat and irregular shaped bones,
and also a narrow rim around the marrow cavity and the ends
of long bones
Chondrosarcoma
Description - cancer of cartilage
cells; the second most common primary bone cancer
Chordoma
Description - a malignant tumor
that is derived from remnants of the embryonic notochord
and occurs along the spine attacking especially the bones
at the base of the skull or near the coccyx
Disseminating
sclerosis, spinal chord
Description - a pathological condition
in which a tissue has become hard, as in multiple sclerosis
Ewing's
sarcoma
Alternative Name - Ewing's tumour, primitive
neuroectodermal tumor
Description - a type of bone cancer that
usually forms in the middle (shaft) of large bones; the third most
common form of primary bone cance
Femur,
ossifying
Description - ossification of the
large thigh bone
Fibrous
dysplasia, bone
Description - a chronic disorder
of the skeleton that causes expansion of one or more bones
due to abnormal development of fibrous tissue within the
bone
Giant
cell sarcoma
Description - a bone cancer in
which the cells look large under a microscope (produced by
the fusion of many cells)
Gouty
tophus
Description - a deposit of urates
around a joint typical of people with gout
Intervertebral
disk, fibrous cartilage
Description - spinal disc
Juvenile
rheumatism nodule
Alternative Name - Still's disease
Description - a chronic, inflammatory
disease that may cause joint or connective tissue damage.
The onset occurs before age 16
Leg
fracture with fat embolism
Description - fractured leg bone
showing the occurrence of fat globules in the bloodstream
that occur after the fracture of a long bone
Ossification
Description - The formation of
bone or of a bony substance, the conversion of fibrous tissue
or of cartilage into bone or a bony substance
Osteochondroma
Description - a benign cartilaginous
tumour, often occurring near the ends of long bones
Osteosarcoma
Alternative Name - Osteogenic sarcoma
Description - a cancer of the bone
that usually affects the arms, legs and pelvis; the most
common primary bone cancer
Paget's
disease, bone
Alternative Name - osteitis deformans,
osteodystrophia deformans
Description - a chronic disease of bones
involving the replacement of normal bone marrow with vascular and
fibrous tissue
Poliomyelitis,
spinal chord
Description - spinal chord showing
the affects of the viral disease poliomyelitis
Rheumatoid
arthritis, joint
Description - a disease in which
the body recruits new blood vessels to the joints, causing
swelling and inflammation
Rickets,
costochondral junction
Description - the point where the ribs articulate with the sternum showing
signs of rickets (vitamin D deficiency leading to disturbance in normal
ossification)
Spinal
Chord, cervical
Description - the spinal column
in the region of the neck
Spinal Chord,
lumbar
Description - the spinal chord
between the ribs and the pelvis
Spinal
Chord, thoracic
Description - the spinal column
in the region of the ribs
