Legs
What is the longest bone in the leg?
femur
What does your arm include?
The upper arm includes the shoulder as well as the area between the shoulder and elbow joint. The bones of the upper arm include the: Scapula.
What does the skull do?
Your brain is protected by several bones. There are eight bones that surround your brain: one frontal bone; two parietal bones, two temporal bones, one occipital bone, one sphenoid bone, and one ethmoid bone. ... Also protecting your brain are three layers of tissue called the meninges.
What is a hinge joint?
A hinge joint is a common class of synovial joint that includes the ankle, elbow, and knee joints. Hinge joints are formed between two or more bones where the bones can only move along one axis to flex or extend.
What is the skeleton?
An internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant.
How many bones are in your leg?
8 both legs
How many bones in your lower arm?
2.
What is the most important bone in your skull?
The brain.
What is the ball-and-socket-joint?
A natural or manufactured joint or couplings, such as the hip joint, in which a partially spherical end lies in a socket, allowing multidirectional movement and rotation.
What are vertebrae?
Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes.
True or false: The leg consists of 63 bones.
False. It consists of 62 bones.
How many bones in your upper arm?
64 bones.
What is the second most important bone in your skull?
Mandible.
What is the pivot joint?
What is a ligament?
A short band of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.
Name all the bones in your leg?
fibula, femur, tibia, patella
What is the longest bone in your arm?
Humerus.
What are the 8 main bones in your skull?
The brain, which performs these various functions, is protected by a part of the skull called the cranium. We'll turn our attention to the eight bones that form it: the ethmoid bone, the sphenoid bone, the frontal bone, the occipital bone, two parietal bones, and two temporal bones.
What is the sliding joint?
A prismatic joint provides a linear sliding movement between two bodies and is often called a slider, as in the slider-crank linkage. ... Prismatic joints provide single-axis sliding often found in hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders.
What is a compact bone?
Compact bone, also called cortical bone, densebone in which the bony matrix is solidly filled with organic ground substance and inorganic salts, leaving only tiny spaces (lacunae) that contain the osteocytes, or bone cells. ... Both types are found in most bones.
How many bones in your upper leg?
2.
What is the smallest bone in your arm?
Carpals.
How many bones main are in your skull?
8 bones
What is the most important joint in the human body?
Synovial joints are predominant in your limbs where mobility is important. Ligaments help provide their stability and muscles contract to produce movement. The most common synovial joints are listed below: Ball and socket joints, like your hip and shoulder joints, are the most mobile type of joint in the human body.
What is a spongy bone?
Spongy bone is a network of irregularly-shaped sheets and spikes of bone (trabeculae). The trabeculae are only a few cell layers thick. The spaces between the trabeculae contain red or yellow marrow, depending on a person's age and on which bone it is.