Cartilage & Bones
A firm but flexible tissue found associated with bones
What is cartilage?
The muscles that move the bones in our skeleton
What are the skeletal muscles?
The bone between the shoulder and elbow
What is the humerus?
The artery that travels along the radius
What is the radial artery?
The nerves that are connected to the spinal cord
What are the spinal nerves?
The bone that moves up and down when you talk and chew
What is the mandible?
The stringy white tissue
What is a ligament?
The bone that goes between the hip and the knee
What is the femur?
The artery that you feel in your neck
What is the carotid artery?
The nerves that are connected to the brain
What are the cranial nerves?
The most flexible form of cartilage
What is elastic cartilage?
It attaches the muscle to the bone
What is a tendon?
The two bones that go between the knee and ankle
What are the tibia and fibula?
This man was a natural philosopher during the period AD-129-c. AD-200
Who was Galen?
The two functions of nerves
What are to control things and sense things?
The 3 types of cartilages
What are: Hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, elastic cartilage?
Two things that muscles are made from
What are two different kinds of tissues: a pinkish or reddish muscle, and a white tendon?
The longest bone in the body
What is the femur?
This man was a Belgian physician who taught human anatomy and was the author of On the Fabric of the Human Body
Who was Andreas Vesalius?
The 3 basic sections of the brain
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem?
What is the interesting thing that your body can make into a bone
What is cartilage?
The function of the ligaments
What is to hold the bones in the joints together?
The number of bones in the human body
What is 206 bones?
The 3 differences between arteries and veins
What are:
1. Arteries have thicker walls than veins.
2. Arteries pulse and veins don't.
3. Arteries are deep, while veins are superficial?
The side of the brain that you compute arithmetic
What is the left side?