Functions and Classification of Bones
These things act as a support system for the body.
What are bones?
This type of fracture usually happens in children.
What is a greenstick fracture?
This bone forms the forehead.
What is the frontal bone?
The shoulder girdle consists of these two bones.
What are the clavicle and the scapula?
Where the leg and hip meet forms this type of joint.
What is ball and socket?
This set of bones protects the brain.
What is the skull?
This type of fracture happens when broken bone ends are forced into one another.
What is an impacted fracture?
This is another name for the lower jaw.
What is the mandible?
These are the three bones in the arm.
What are the humerus, the radius, and the ulna?
The elbow joint is this kind of joint.
What is a hinge joint?
Muscles connect to bones with _____.
What are tendons?
This type of fracture happens when the bone is crushed.
What is a compression fracture?
The cranium has this number of bones.
What is eight?
While in the anatomical position this bone is medial to the ulna.
What is the radius?
These two joints allow for essentially the same movements.
What are the saddle and the condyloid joints?
Bones store these important minerals.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
It is an _____ fracture when the bone breaks into many fragments?
What is comminuted?
The parietal bones meet at the _____ suture.
What is sagittal?
This bone is known as the sitdown bone.
What is the ischium?
This is the most common type of arthritis.
What is osteoarthritis?
This is the the scientific term for blood cell formation.
What is hematopoiesis?
This type of fracture is common in sports.
What is a spiral fracture?
This bone does not articulate directly with any other bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
In the leg, this is a common fracture site.
What is the neck of the femur?
This disease involves uric acid being deposited in the joints as needle-sharp crystals.
What is gout?