Combining Forms
Carp/o
What are carpals?
The skeletal system consists of?
What are bones and joints?
The material found in the cavities of bones:
What is bone marrow?
Upper jawbone:
What is the maxilla?
Movement away from the midline of the body:
What is abduction?
Lower jawbone:
What is the mandible?
Cost/o
What are ribs?
Main functions of the skeletal system (3)
What are to provide framework, protect organs, store calcium and produces red blood cells?
The membranous lining of the hollow cavity of the bone:
What is endosteum?
C1 through C7:
What are the cervical vertebrae?
Placing a limb in a straight position?
What is extension?
T1 through T12:
What are the thoracic vertebrae?
Lumb/o
What is loin or back?
The axial skeletal has how many bones:
What are 80 bones?
Shaft of the bone:
What is diaphysis?
Made up of bones called vertebrae through which the spinal cord runs:
What is the vertebral column?
Bending a limb:
What is flex or flexion?
Collarbone:
What is the clavicle?
Petr/o
What is stone?
The appendicular skeleton has how many bones:
What are 126 bones?
Dense, hard layers of the bone tissue that lie underneath the periosteum:
What is compact bone?
Five vertebrae that fuse together to form a triangular bone positioned between the two hips:
What is the sacrum?
Turning inward:
What is inversion?
Shoulder blade:
What is the scapula?
Myos/o
What is muscle?
Located any place that two or more bones meet:
What are joints?
Outer most layer of the bone, made up of fibrous tissue:
What is periosteum?
Lower portion of the sternum:
What is the Xiphoid Process?
Movement that turns the palm down:
What is pronation?
Large socket in the pelvic bone for the head of femur:
What is the acetabulum?
Stern/o
What is sternum?
Total bones in the human body:
What is 206?
Contains little spaces like a sponge and is encased in the layers of contact bone:
What cancellous or spongy bone?
Four vertebrae fused together to make the tailbone:
What is the coccyx?
Turning outward:
What is eversion?
Extension of the scapula, which forms the high point of the shoulder:
What is the acromion process?