Exam 22: Musculoskeletal System

Of the 33 vertebrae in the spinal column,there are:

A 68-year-old woman has come in for an assessment of her rheumatoid arthritis,and the nurse notes raised,firm,nontender nodules at the olecranon bursa and along the ulna.These nodules are most commonly diagnosed as:

The nurse is explaining the mechanism of the growth of long bones to a mother of a toddler.The nurse knows that bones increase in width or diameter by deposition of new bony tissue around the shafts.The nurse also knows that lengthening occurs at the:

A patient states,"I can hear a crunching or grating sound when I kneel." She also states "it is very difficult to get out of bed in the morning because of stiffness and pain in my joints." The nurse suspects that the sound she hears is:

An imaginary line connecting the highest point on each iliac crest would cross:

A professional tennis player comes into the clinic complaining of a sore elbow.The nurse suspects that he has tenderness at the:

A mother brings her newborn baby boy in for a checkup;she tells the nurse that he doesn't seem to be moving his right arm as much as his left and that he seems to have pain when she lifts him up under the arms.The nurse suspects a fractured clavicle and would observe for:

The nurse is planning to measure a patient's angles of joint flexion and will use which instrument?