Skeleton
The literal translation of the Greek word for skeleton we get our word from.
What is dried-up body?
Bones protect these types of organs.
What are soft organs?
These bones are longer than they are wide.
What are long bones?
These are the ends of long bones.
What are epiphyses?
This bone found in the thigh is the largest in the body.
What is the femur?
Bones that form the longitudinal axis of the body.
What is the axial skeleton?
________ attach skeletal muscles to bones.
What are tendons?
_____ and ____ bones are the two basic types of osseous (bone) tissue.
What are compact and spongy?
Bone surfaces can be described as...
What is irregular, rough, and dented?
This prefix means bone.
What is osteo-?
Bones of the limbs and girdles that attach them to the axial skeleton.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Bone marrow stores this in its internal cavities.
What is fat?
All bones within limbs, besides the patellar, wrist, and ankle bones are ____ bones.
What are long bones?
More than half of the body's 206 bones can be found in these two types of limb endings.
What are the hands and feet?
_______ give parts of skeleton flexibility, allowing movement.
The body's smallest bones can be found in this organ.
What is the ear?
List the five functions of bones.
What are support, protection, movement, storage, and blood cell formation (hematopoiesis)?
The adult skeleton possesses these many bones.
How many are 206?
The epiphyseal plate stimulates long bone growth until it is blocked by these.
What are hormones?
Most of the body's store of this element is found in bone.
What is calcium?
The Biblical prophet Ezekiel witnessed God create an army out of these in the wilderness.
What are dry bones?
What is hematopoiesis?
Osteocytes are found within the bone matrix in tiny cavities called _____.
What are lacunae?
A special type of short bone that forms within tendons. The most well-known of these is the Patella.
What are sesamoid bones?