Anatomy of Bones
The less dense type of bone tissue found towards the ends (epiphyses) of long bones
What is spongy bone?
The type of muscle that is controlled voluntarily and attaches to bone.
What is skeletal muscle?
The flat bones that protect many vital organs.
What are the ribs?
the longest bone in the body
What is the femur?
the number of muscles in the quadriceps group
What is 4?
What is bone marrow?
The two myofilaments involved in muscle contraction?
What are actin and myosin?
The coccyx, sacrum, vertebrae, and many cranial bones like the zygomatic are this type of bone
What is irregular?
The two bones that are distal to the humerus.
What are the radius and ulna?
The trapezoid shaped muscle of the upper back
What is the trapezius?
What are osteoblasts?
The type of muscle/muscle fiber that is known as "endurance muscle" and uses aerobic respiration.
What are slow twitch muscle fibers?
This bone is inferior to the manubrium and medial to the ribs.
What is the sternum?
The more lateral of the two lower leg (shin) bones.
What is the fibula?
The triangle shaped muscle superior/proximal to the triceps brachii and biceps brachii
What is the deltoid?
What is an epiphysis?
The functional units of muscle that span from Z line to Z line and shorten during muscle contraction
What are sarcomeres?
List the 5 different sections of vertebrae in order from superior to inferior.
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, coccyx
The short bones in the wrist
What are the carpals?
The abdominal muscles lateral to the rectus abdominus
What are the external obliques?
What is a sesamoid bone?
Put the following in order from superficial to deep within the body.
epimysium, endomysium, perimysium
Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium
This flat bone is the most posterior of the cranial bones.
What is the occipital bone?
The largest sesamoid bone in the body
What is the patella?
The antagonist to the biceps brachii
What is the triceps brachii?