Skeleton
A hard tissue making up the skeleton.
What are bones
A structure in the body where two bones are fitted together.
What is a joint
The flexible tissue attaching a bone to another bone.
What is a ligament
Bands of tissue that are the motive power of the body.
What are muscles
The bending of a limb or joint.
What is flexion
How many bones are in the human body?
What are 206 bones.
A flexible tissue that covers the ends of your bones and is very smooth.
What is cartilage
A flexible tissue attaching a muscle to a bone
What is a tendon
The muscle found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle
The straightening of a limb or joint.
What is extension
The cracking or breaking of a bone.
What is a fracture
A flexible tissue attaching a muscle to a muscle
What is fascia
The type of joint that slides past another bone. Like with hands and feet.
Gliding
The muscle found inside your organs, like the intestines.
What is smooth muscle.
The movement of the limbs away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction
These are the largest and smallest bones in the body. (2 answers)
What is the femur, and what is the stapes
Painful inflammation or stiffness in a joint.
What is arthritis
What is a hinge joint
The muscle found attached to your bones and is responsible for moving your bones.
What is skeletal muscle.
The movement of the limbs towards the midline of the body.
What is adduction
This is how many cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae there are in the human body. (3 numbers) *Remember breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
7 cervical, 12 thoracic, and 5 lumbar
A wrench or twist in the ligament of a joint
What is a sprain
The type of joint that allows radial movement in all directions, like with your shoulder and hip.
What is a ball and socket joint
This means you can control it, and this means you can't control it. (Two answers)
What is voluntary (control) and what is involuntary (no control)
Radial movement in all directions
What is rotation