Riddles for fun
What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
A Glove
Anatomy is what?
The study of structures
Where the epiphysis located on a long bone?
The ends
What do muscles only do?
Muscles only PULL
What is kinesiology?
Study of human movement
What can be touched but can't be seen?
Someone’s heart
What is allostasis?
Homeostasis during environmental and physiological changes (sweating, cortisol release during stress etc)
What cell is a bone "destroying" cell?
Osteoclasts
Tendons connect bone to bone and ligaments connect muscle to bone (true or false)
False
Where is a trochanter located in the body?
Femur
What can go through glass without breaking it?
Light
What is the root in the word Adenopathy?
Adeno
Spongy bone is where red marrow is stored (true or false)
True
Slow twitch is good for what activities?
a. endurance
b. sprinting
a. endurance
The radioulnar joint is a type of pivot joint (true or false)
true
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch & Dinner
What is the study of bodily functions?
Physiology
Flat bone
What are the 4 characteristics of muscles?
a. excitability, extensibility, elasticity, and contractability
b. heat production, movement, and postural maintenance
c. sarcomere, myofibrils, actin and myosin
a. excitability, extensibility, elasticity, and contractability
What bone is directly below the thumb metacarpal?
trapezium
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are grandfather, father, and son
What term means a cell is "shrunken"?
Hypertonic
What is a diarthrotic joint?
Synovial or freely movable joint
What is the junction called that involves the nervous system and muscle system?
Neuromuscular junction
Subscapularis