Supports the body.
What is a function of the skeletal system?
What is an Osteon?
Sites where two or more bones meet.
What are joints?
Your chin.
What is mandible?
Bone connected to the scapula.
What is the Humerus?
Two important minerals that are important to functioning the skeletal system.
What is calcium and phosphorus?
Process of bone formation.
What is ossification?
Bone ends are connected by fibro cartilage.
What is Cartilaginous joints?
Flat bone in the middle of your chest.
What is the sternum?
Your thigh bone.
What is the femur?
Typically longer than they are wide.
What is a long bone?
Released when blood calcium levels are low.
What is Parathyroid hormone (PTH)?
Humerus and ulna joint.
What is a hinge joint?
Your cheekbone.
Your palm.
What is metacarpals?
Contains spongy bone.
What is a short bone?
Bone breaks into many fragments.
What is comminuted?
Head of humerus and scapula joint.
What is ball and socket joint?
Forms most of hard palate.
What is palatine?
The two bones below your thigh bone.
Two thin layers of compact bone surrounded a layer of spongy bone.
What is a flat bone?
Ragged break occurs when excessive twisting forces are applied to a bone.
What is spiral?
Caused by deposition of uric acid crystals from blood.
What is Gout?
Three cranial bones containing paranasal sinuses.
What is Ethmoid, Sphenoid and Frontal?
Your ankle.
What is the talus