By any other name
A knee.
What is a patella?
The bones that include the femur and humerus.
What is a long bone?
When a bone is broken completely into 2 pieces.
What is a compound fracture?
The neck portion of the vertebrae column.
What is the cervical spine?
The muscles with the most energy.
What are cardiac muscles?
The common name for your clavicle.
What is your collarbone?
Bone cells that make up the connective tissue in bones.
What are osteocytes?
When a person (usually a child) has cracked a bone but it has not separated.
What is a greenstick fracture?
The vertebrae that fuse with age.
What are the sacrum and coccyx?
What are blood and nutrients/food?
What is the ilium?
The width and length of the bone are of equal measure.
What is a short bone?
When a bone has been shattered, usually requiring surgery and pins.
What is a comminuted fracture?
The lower part of the of the vertebrae column superior to the pelvis.
What is the lumbar?
The three functions of muscles.
Your funny bone.
What is your humerus?
These bones have sutures which fuse over time.
What are cranial bones?
A coke machine fell on Peter, crushing his bones, or causing this type of fracture.
What are compression fractures?
You press on this bone when giving CPR.
What is the sternum?
The muscles of your digestive system.
What are smooth muscles?
What are carpals?
The cells that absorb bone.
What are osteoclasts?
Andy fell off his bike and since he wasn't wearing a helmet, his head suffered this type of fracture.
What is a depression fracture?
The disks in your skeleton that allow your bones to grow, commonly called growth plates.
What are your epiphyseal disks?
The term to describe doing something automatically, vs. autonomically.
What is muscle memory?