Integumentary System
These two regions make up the cutaneous membrane.
What are the epidermis and dermis?
This law states that the thickness, shape, and strength of a bone is dependent on the stressors it receives.
What is Wolff's Law?
This is the type of fracture that occurs when the bone penetrates the skin.
What is an open fracture?
List the tarsal bones.
What are the calcaneus, talus, medial, intermediate and lateral cuneiforms, cuboid, and navicular?
This is the structural classification that means "slightly moveable."
What is amphiarthrosis?
The hypodermis is primarily composed of this.
What is adipose tissue?
The tarsals are an example of this type of bone.
What are short bones?
This type of ossification occurs when bone replaces hyaline cartilage.
What is endochondral ossification?
This is the suture that separates the parietal bones.
What is the squamous suture?
What is diarthrosis?
What is the Stratum Basale?
These are the three types of skeletal cartilages.
What are hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage?
What are sinuses?
What is the sphenoid bone?
A pivot joint is considered uniaxial because it only allows for this type of motion.
What is rotation?
This type of sweat gland is found in the axillary and anogenital areas.
What are apocrine sweat glands?
This type of bone cell is a mature bone cell, responsible for filling and occupying the matrix.
What are osteocytes?
This type of bone growth increases the length of long bones and occurs primarily during childhood.
What is interstitial growth?
This is the inner (jelly) part of the intervertebral disc.
What is the nucleus pulposus?
The intertarsal joints are this type of joint and allow for this specific movement (2 answers).
This is the most dangerous type of skin cancer.
What is melanoma?
This structure runs through the center of the lamella and contains blood vessels and nerves.
What is the central canal?
The type of fracture where the epiphysis separates from the diaphysis.
What is epiphyseal fracture?
List the carpal bones.
What are the trapezium, scaphoid, lunate, pisiform, triquetrum, trapezoid, capitate, hamate
This type of arthritis is an autoimmune condition that affects middle aged adults and more commonly women than men.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?