Go for broke!
Name the type of bone: femur
What is a long bone?
The general name for the bones of the ankle.
What is tarsals?
This bony structure begins at the foramen magnum.
What is the spinal column?
The type of joint represented by the hip.
What is ball-and-socket?
These cells form new bone.
What are osteoblasts?
A total displacement of a bone end from its position within a joint capsule.
What is a dislocation?
Name the type of bone: patella.
What is (a) sesamoid (bone)?
Bone which forms the prominence of your cheek (and lateral wall of the orbit).
What is the zygomatic bone (or zygoma)?
The hip and shoulder joints enjoy the greatest ROM but at the cost of _______ (what?).
What is stability?
An osteoblast develops into an osteocyte which lives in this space.
What is a lacuna?
The fragile inferior portion of the sternum, a problem site in chest compressions.
What is the xiphoid?
The exterior shafts of long bones consists of this type of bone.
What is cortical (compact) bone?
Keystone cranial bone - articulates with all the other cranial bones.
What is the sphenoid?
Type of joint: elbow.
What is hinge (joint)?
Endosteum lines a bone's medullary cavity. This covers the external surface of that bone.
What is periosteum?
Name the type of fracture: torque is applied along the axis of a bone.
What is a spiral fracture?
Vitamin that plays an important part in calcium metabolism.
What is vitamin D3?
Sensory function whose end-fibers pass through small holes in the cribriform plate.
What is olfaction (smell)?
One of two major divisions of the skeletal system: the pectoral girdle.
What is appendicular?
In the spine, which number and location is the axis?
What is 2nd cervical (vertebra)?
Name the type of fracture: the bone either punctures the skin or can be seen outside the body.
What is a compound (open) fracture?
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Osteon is to cortical bone as trabecula is to ________ ______ .
What is cancellous (spongy) bone?
The other unpaired facial bone, besides the vomer.
What is the mandible?
Type of joint: C1 - C2.
What is pivot (joint)?
One of two major divisions of the skeletal system: sacrum.
What is axial?