Homeostatic Imbalances
When a joint pops out of its socket
What is Dislocation?
Moving your forearm so that your palm faces upward or forward
What is Supination?
The bone that makes up your lower jaw.
What is Mandible?
A bone that is longer than it is wide.
What is a Long Bone?
The substance your bones are made of when you are a baby.
What is Cartilage?
Bones don't calcify correctly.
What is Rickets?
Moving a body part toward the middle of your body like bringing your fingers together after spreading them apart.
What is Adduction?
The five long bones in the palm of your hand, between your wrist and your fingers.
What are Metacarpals?
The sagittal suture is a _____ type of joint.
What is an Immovable Joint?
Cells that produce the materials to form new bone tissue.
What are Osteoblasts?
Too much pressure on the bones of the foot.
What is Pes Cavas?
The bending of a joint so that the angle between two body parts becomes smaller.
What is Flexion?
The last two pairs of ribs in your rib cage that do not attach to your sternum at the front.
What are Floating Ribs?
A joint that allows movement mainly in one direction: bending and straightening.
What is a Hinge Joint?
The scientific name for a growth plate.
What is the Epiphyseal Line?
An excessive forward rounding of the upper back.
What is Kyphosis?
Moving a body part in a circular motion, so that the end of it traces a circle.
What is Circumduction?
The small, U-shaped bone in the front of your neck.
What is the Hyoid Bone?
A joint where two bones meet and can move freely.
What is a Synovial Joint?
The inner membrane of a bone.
What is the Endosteum?
A partially torn deltoid ligament.
What is a Grade Two Eversion Ankle Sprain?
The motion of turning the sole of your foot towards the middle of your body.
What is Inversion?
The seven bones in your neck that make up the upper part of your spine.
What is Cervical Vertebrae?
The group of bones and muscles that connects your arms to your axial skeleton.
What is the Shoulder Girdle?
All five purposes of the Skeletal System.
What are, Structure and Support, Protection, Muscle Attachment, Production of Red Blood Cells, and Mineral Storage?