Bone
What is the most important hormone in stimulating epiphyseal plate activity in infancy and childhood?
What is Growth Hormone?
What is it called that extends from the skill to the pelvis?
What is the Spine or Spinal Column?
How many phalanges do you have in your lower limb (toes)?
What is 14 bones of toe?
True or False:
Flexion increases the angle of the joint, and Extension decreases the angle of the joint.
What is False? Flexion decreases; Extension increases.
What is the skeletal system composed of?
What are Bones, Cartilages, Joints, and Ligaments?
What cartilage covers articular (joint) surfaces?
What is Articular Cartilage?
What is an abnormal dorsal thoracic curvature? Common in people with osteoporosis, spinal tuberculosis, or osteomalacia.
What is Kyphosis or Hunchback?
True or False:
The Ulna is the only bone in the arm and the largest and longest bone of the upper limb.
What is False? Humerus.
What are the sites where two or more bones meet called?
What are Joints, or Articulations?
What carries the entire weight of the erect body?
What is the Lower Limb?
Which type of cartilage provides support, flexibility, and resilience; also contains collagen fibers only?
What is Hyaline Cartilage?
True or False:
The skeleton accounts for 30% of body mass.
What is False? 20%
What attaches the lower limbs to the body trunk?
What is the Pelvic Girdle?
Name about 3 different types of synovial joints.
What is the difference between Synarthroses and Diarthroses?
What is Synarthroses are immovable joints, and Diarthroses are freely moving joints?
What is the process of bone tissue formation called?
What is Ossification (Osteogenesis)?
What two bones are on both the left and right side of the cranium?
What are the Parietal bones and Temporal bones?
What is the largest and strongest bone in the body?
What is Femur?
What are the three types of movements allowed by synovial joints?
What are Gliding, Rotation, and Angular movements?
What is the relationship in ligaments between number and location?
True or False:
Periosteum covers the outside of compact bone, and endosteum covers the inside portion of compact bone.
What is True?
What are the five major regions of vertebral column?
What are the Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacrum, and Coccyx?
What are the three borders of a scapula?
What are Superior, Medial (vertebral), and Lateral (axillary)?
What is the movement of the thumb called?
What is Opposition?
What are the four main curves that help increase resilience and flexibility of spine?
What are Cervical and Lumbar curvatures, and Thoracic and Sacral curvatures?