Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology

• Arthritis - inflammation of intra-articular structures

• Arthropathy - all-encompassing term referring to any joint disease, whether inflammatory or not

• Desmitis - inflammation of ligaments

• Eburnation - loss of articular cartilage of joint -> exposure of subchondral bone -> becomes dense and polished

• Ecterodactylia - cleft in paw extending to metacarpus of dogs and cats

• Enostosis - benign bony growth with medullary cavity, may obliterate the cavity

• Entheses - tendon insertions

• Exostosis - see osteophyte

• Fibrillation- loss of proteoglycans in articular cartilage -> condensation of collagen fibres -> fraying of surface

• Hemimelia - abscence of one of limb bones

• Hyperostosis - benign uniform ingrease in size, due to periosteal growth

• Joint mice - detached articular cartilage remaining within joint

• Osteophyte - benign nodular bony projections from surface of bone

• Pannus - fibrovascular and histiocytic tissue, arises from insertion of synovial membrane and spreads over adjacent cartilage, or from subchondral marrow ane separates cartilage from the bone

• Polydactylia - increased number of digits

• Syndactylia - fusion of toes

• Synovitis - inflammation of the synovial membrane

• Tendosynovitis - inflammation of tendon and its sheeth

• Tenosynovitis - inflammation of tendon synovial sheeth