Bone Classes
Longer than wide.
What is a long Bone?
This is the bone in axial skeleton with fused plates.
What is the skull?
This is the upper leg bone.
What is the femur?
This is the body of a long bone.
What is the diaphysis?
This is when there is a break across the bone.
What is transverse?
This is a plate of bone.
What is a flat bone?
This is the pelvic region of vertebrae.
What is the sacral vertebrae or sacrum?
This is the main bone of the upper arm.
What is the humerus?
This is the thin outer protective layer of bone.
What is the periosteum?
This is an incomplete break on one side.
What is a greenstick?
These include the carpus and tarsus.
What are short bones?
These are the vertebrae of the lower back.
What is lumbar?
These bones make up the knee in cows and wrist in dogs.
What are the carpal bones?
This is the enlarged end of a long bone.
What is the epiphysis?
This is an incomplete break along the long axis of a bone.
What is a fissure fracture?
This type of bone includes all the vertebrae.
What are irregular bones.
These are C1 and C2 which allow an animal to nod and shake its head.
What are the atlas and the axis?
Lower back leg bones that are fused in herbivores.
What are the fibula and tibia?
This is the thin inner protective layer lining of the medullary cavity.
This is when the bone shatters into many pieces.
What is comminuted fracture?
These are small, seed-shaped bones.
What are sesamoid?
These are the three types of ribs.
What are true, false, and floating?
These are the bones that make up the hoof and claw.
What are the distal, intermediate, and proximal phalanx.
This is the joining portion of the enlarged ends and the body of a long bone.
What is the metaphysis?
This is when bones turn fibrocartilage into bone to grow or heal.
What is ossification?