Axial Skeleton
Upper App. Skeleton
Lower App. Skeleton
Joints and Joint Motions
100

This round hole allows for the passage of vessels, nerves, or muscles.

What is a Foramen?

100

This landmark is directly inferior to the scapular spine.

What is the infraspinous fossa?

100

One of the bones of the pelvic girdle.

What is the Ilium, Ischium, or Pubis?

100

This type of joint is characterized as having no movement.

What is synarthrosis?

200

The cranial bone that houses the foramen magnum.

What is the occipital bone?

200

This bone features the olecranon fossa on its posterior aspect.

What is the humerus?

200

This landmark runs between the ASIS and PSIS.

What is the Iliac Crest?

200

This joint motion sends the scapula forward and lateral.

What is protraction?

300

This joint is formed between the atlas and the axis.

What is a pivot joint?

300

This epicondyle is on the same side as the greater tubercle.

What is the lateral epicondyle?

300

This landmark is featured between two condyles on the anterior aspect of the femur.

What is the Patellar Surface?

300

This type of joint has the greatest degree of freedom (ROM).

What is a ball and socket joint?

400

Respectively, these are the amount of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae in the spinal column. (3 numbers).

What are 7, 12, and 5?
400

This carpal bone directly articulates with the thumb.

What is the Trapezium?

400

Respectively, these two bones feature the lateral and medial malleoli.

What are the fibula and tibia?

400

Respectively, jumping and landing result in what motion at the ankle joint?

What are plantar flexion and dorsiflexion?

500

This part of a thoracic vertebra connects the spinous and transverse processes.

What is the lamina?

500

The side of the body that this ulna belongs to.

What is the right side?

500

These two pelvic girdle bones make up the obturator foramen.

What is the Ischium and Pubis?

500

Most ankle injuries occur with this type of joint motion.

What is inversion?
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