The layer of skin containing blood vessels, nerves, and hair follicles.
What is the dermis?
The living tissue that produces red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
What is bone marrow?
The bone that contains the foramen magnum.
What is the occipital bone?
The two bones of the forearm.
What are the radius and ulna?
Freely movable joints, characterized by a joint cavity.
What are synovial joints?
Glands that secrete sebum, an oily substance that lubricates the skin.
What are sebaceous glands?
The cells that build bone.
What are osteoblasts?
The suture that joins the parietal bones.
What is the sagittal suture?
The bones that make up the ankle.
What are the tarsal bones?
The tough, fibrous capsule that surrounds a synovial joint.
What is the joint capsule?
The visible portion of the hair.
What is the hair shaft?
Hyaline cartilage covering the joint surfaces at the epiphyses.
What is articular cartilage?
The vertebrae that articulate with the ribs.
What are the thoracic vertebrae?
The large socket in the pelvic bone that articulates with the head of the femur.
What is the acetabulum?
Connective tissue that connects bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
Tiny muscles that cause hair to stand on end.
What are arrector pili muscles?
The shaft of a long bone.
What is diaphysis?
The first cervical vertebra, which supports the head.
What is the atlas (C1)?
The process on the ulna that forms the elbow.
What is the olecranon process?
Movement away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
The outermost layer of the epidermis, composed of dead, keratinized cells.
What is the stratum corneum?
The part of bone that replaces epiphyseal growth plate.
What is epiphyseal line?
The three parts of the sternum.
What are the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process?
The heel bone.
What is the calcaneus?
Immovable joints, such as those in the skull.
What are fibrous joints (or sutures)?