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These are the living tissue in bone.
What are bone tissue, cartilage, dense connective tissue, blood, and nervous tissue?
Name a special type of short bone that is usually small and nodular and develops within a tendon or adjacent to a joint.
What is a sesamoid bone or round bone?
Platelike structures with broad surfaces.
What are flat bones?
What are the 3 types of joints?
Fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial joints.
Elbow, knee, and joints of the phalanges.
What are hinge joints?
How many bones are in the body?
206
80 in the axial skeleton
126 in the appendicular skeleton
What are the five main functions of the skeletal system?
Support and Protection
Body Movement
Blood Cell Formation
Storage of Inorganic Salts
Somewhat cubelike, with roughly equal lengths and widths.
What are short bones?
Lie between bones that closely contact one another; generally no movement (synarthrotic)...suture between a pair of flat bones of the skull
What are fibrous joints?
Joints between the metacarpals and phalanges, radius and carpals.
What are condylar joints?
These are some examples of long bones.
What are the forearm and thigh bones
Bones with a variety of shapes and most are connected to several other bones.
What are irregular bones?
What are some examples of short bones?
What are carpals and tarsals?
Most joints in the skeletal system; allow free movement. More complex structurally than fibrous and cartilaginous joints.
What are synovial joints?
Wrists and ankles, acromioclavicular, and between two vertebrae.
What are gliding joints?
Consists of the epiphysis, diaphysis, compact bone, spongy bone, and medullary cavity
What are the 5 major parts of a long bone?
Example of a special short bone: sesamoid bone or round bone?
What is the patella (kneecap)?
What are the different types of synovial joints?
a) Ball-and-socket joint
b) Hinge joint
c) Condyloid Joint:
d) Gliding Joint:
e) Pivot joint:
f) Saddle Joint:
Bones of these joints are connected by hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage.
What are cartilaginous joints?
Proximal and distal radioulnar joints and joints in the neck. (joint between the atlas and dens of the axis)
What are pivot joints?
Long longitudinal axes and expanded ends.
What are long bones?
Examples of flat bones.
What are the ribs, the scapulae, and some bones of the skull?
Functional junctions between bones.
What are joints?
Shoulder and hip joints.
What are ball-and-socket joints?
Between the carpal and metacarpal of the thumb.
What are saddle joints?