Ch. 7.4 Skeletal System Key Terms
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This skeleton includes your arms and legs.
This is the long shaft of a long bone
What is diaphysis?
What is the humerus?
This bone is in your upper arm.
This hollow part of a long bone contains marrow.
What is the medullary canal?
What is the periosteum?
This is the tough outer covering of a bone.
This skeleton includes your skull, spine, and ribs.
What is the axial skeleton?
What is the endosteum?
This lining covers the inside of the bone.
These are where two bones meet.
What are joints?
These are the bones in your palm.
What are metacarpals?
These are the bones in your fingers and toes.
What are phalanges?
These are the small bones in your wrist.
What are carpals?
These are the ends of a long bone.
What are epiphyses?
What are foramina?
These holes in bones allow nerves and blood vessels through.
What are metatarsals?
These are the bones in the middle of your foot.
This lower-arm bone is on the thumb side.
What is the radius?
These are your collarbones.
What are clavicles?
What is the femur?
This is the longest bone in the body.
These “soft spots” are found in a baby’s skull.
What are fontanels?
These bones form your hip.
What is coxae?
This type of marrow makes blood cells.
What is red marrow?
This part of the skull protects your brain.
What is the cranium?
This is the smaller lower-leg bone.
What is the fibula?
These tissues connect bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
This bone is also called the kneecap
What is the patella?
These bones protect your heart and lungs.
What are ribs?