Axial Skeleton
The two parts that make up the skull
What are the cranium and the facial bones?
This bone is the upper arm bone. You might say it's funny.
What is the humerus?
These are the 5 shapes that human bones may have.
What are long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones, and sesamoid bones?
Another name for the lower jaw
What is the mandible?
These bone segments make up the 5 regions of the spine.
What are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal regions?
The axial skeleton includes these 3 sections.
What are the skull, the spine, and the rib cage?
These two bones make up the lower arm or the forearm.
What are the radius and ulna?
What is a long bone?
This part of the skull is in the forehead area. You might say it's in the front.
What is the frontal bone?
Another name for breastbone
What is the sternum?
The ______ consist of 12 pairs of thin, flat bones attached to the thoracic vertebrae in the back and to the costochondial tissue in the front.
What are ribs?
Another word for finger bones. There are 14 of them.
What are the phalanges?
An example of these types of bone shapes are the carpals (wrist bones) and the tarsals (ankle bones).
What are short bones?
This part of the skull is in the back of the head towards the bottom.
What is the occipital bone?
This is the most inferior aspect part of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
The _____ is divided into 5 regions from the neck to the tailbone and is comprised of 26 bones.
These 3 bones make up the parts of the hips or the pelvis.
What are the ilium, ischium, and the pubis?
An example of this bone shape is the sternum (breastbone) or the scapula (shoulder blade).
What are flat bones?
This is the bone responsible for those defined cheeks. No contouring required!
What is the zygomatic bone or the zygomatic arch?
There are 7 bones location in this spinal/vertebral region, otherwise known as neck bones.
What is the cervical region?
These bones together combine to make the facial bones. (Don't need to know them all. Just name 4.)
This bone is the thigh bone. It's the biggest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
What are sesamoid bones?
This protrusion is right behind your ear, at the bottom of the skull.
What is the mastoid process?
If your mom ever told you that you have a sharp tailbone, she's referring to this particular vertebral region.
What is the coccygeal region or coccyx?