Upper Extremities
This process is located in the elbow.
What is the olecranon process?
This joint is used in the elbow, knee and fingers.
What is a hinge joint?
Debilitating nerve growths between the toes.
What are neuromas?
This process forms the anterior portion of the hard palate of the mouth.
What is the palatine process?
Another name for the cervical vertebrae C1.
What is Atlas?
Your fingers have this other name.
What are phalanges?
This joint is used in the shoulder.
What is the glenohumeral joint?
The lateral malleolus is part of this bone.
What is the fibula?
These are the cheekbones.
What are the zygomatic bones?
This part of the vertebrae act as "shock absorbers".
What are the intervertebral discs?
The turning of the hand where the palm faces upward.
What is supination?
This joint movement decreases the angle between the bones.
What is flexion.
Another name for the great toe.
What is the hallux?
This is a unique type of joint in the adult skull.
What is a suture?
This thoracic curvature can impair breathing.
What is kyphosis?
This is a large flat bone shaped like a triangle on the posterior thorax.
What is the scapula?
This joint movement is used by a softball pitcher when pitching a ball.
What is circumduction?
This part of the coxal bone receives the head of the femur enabling the thigh to rotate at the hip joint.
What is the acetabulum?
This word means "little fountains".
What are fontanels?
This condition can lead to fractures and brittle, weak bones.
What is osteoporosis?
This is the nerve that you hit when you hit your "funny bone".
What is the ulnar nerve?
This joint is the landmark used to count ribs.
What is the sternomanubrial joint?
There are 14 of these bones in the lower limbs.
What are tarsals?
The large hole in the occipital bone.
What is the foramen magnum?
The facial bones are part of this type of skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?