Anatomical Directions
Bone Names
Categories of Bones
Categories of Joints
Joint Movements
Synovial Joints
100
This plane divides the body into left and right sides
What is the SAGITTAL PLANE?
100
This bone makes up the rear of the skull
What is the OCCIPITAL BONE?
100
This category of bone protects organs underneath them, and act as good places for muscles to connect
What are FLAT bones?
100
Joints, also known as this, can be categorized by their structure and function.
What are ARTICULATIONS?
100
The twisting of your forearm allows you to do these two joint movements.
What are SUPINATION and PRONATION?
100
What is a BALL AND SOCKET/SHOULDER joint/glGLENOHUMERAL joint?
200
This term means "toward or at the front of the body"
What is ANTERIOR?
200
The two bones of the forearm shown here. BONUS: Which is which?
What are the ULNA and the RADIUS?
200
This category of bones does not fall into a neat category...an example of one of these bones helps you chew.
What are IRREGULAR bones?
200
The three structural types of joints
What are FIBROUS, CARTILAGINOUS, and SYNOVIAL?
200
An example of this joint movement is when you turn the sole of your foot inward, and then outward.
What are INVERSION and EVERSION?
200
Ride 'em, Cowboy! This joint is a one of a kind, and you can find it at the first carpometacarpal joint.
What is a SADDLE joint?
300
The type of movement shown here
What is ABDUCTION?
300
This bone could be considered "holy"...it connects your vertebrae to your coccyx.
What is the SACRUM?
300
These bones provide some stability and some movement...for examples, your carpals and tarsals.
What are SHORT bones?
300
These are the 3 functional types of joints
What are DIARTHROSIS, AMPHIARTHROSIS and SYNARTHROSIS?
300
If you raise your right arm laterally to your side and make big circles with your shoulder, you are making this kind of joint movement
What is CIRCUMDUCTION?
300
This type of synovial joint sits at the antlantoaxial meeting point...do you not agree?
What is a PIVOT JOINT?
400
This term means "closer to the center of the body or where the limb attaches"
What is PROXIMAL?
400
Keep a stiff upper lip...this bone lies below your little moustaches.
What is the MAXILLA?
400
These bones provide for movement, structure and support.
What are LONG bones?
400
These joints are connected by dense tissue and are immovable (looking for both structural/functional type here)
What are FIBROUS SYNARTHROSIS JOINTS?
400
This is the act of bending the joint past its natural resting point.
What is HYPEREXTENTSION?
400
This type of joint is uniaxial and only allows the movement of two bones to slide past each other.
What is a GLIDING JOINT?
500
These are the two terms to describe your actions when you are showing off your biceps to your girlfriend
What are FLEXION and EXTENSION?
500
The name of the bone highlighted in green shown here
What is the CALCANEUS?
500
These are the 5 functions of the skeletal system
What are SUPPORT, PROTECTION, MOVEMENT, BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION, and MINERAL STORAGE.
500
There are two types of cartilaginous joints that connect bones WITHOUT the use of a fluid filled joint. (Hint: They can be found between your sternum/rib and your pelvis, respectively).
What are SYNCHONDROSIS and SYMPHISIS?
500
The two actions seen here...raising your foot at the ankle lowering it.
What are DORSIFLEXION and PLANTARFLEXION?
500
Need two answers: This type of joint (for example, your elbow) contains this type of cartilage.
What is HINGE and HYALINE?