Definitions
The organ system whose primary function is to support and protect the body and to allow the body to move
What is the skeletal system
How many types of joints are there in your body
What is five
Allows your body to move when muscles contract
What are joints
How many main parts of the Skeletal-muscular system are there
What is six
When a joint is overstretched
What is sprain
The organ system whose primary function is movement and flexability
What is the muscular system
A place where two or more bones meet
What is a joint
Contract or shorten to produce movement
What are muscles
List all the main parts of the skeletal-muscular system
What are bones, tendons, muscles, joints, ligament, cartilage
When a bone is completely fractured
What is broken
Bones that contain soft tissue
What is marrow
List all types of the joints in your body
What is ball ans socket, hinge, fixed, gliding, and pivot
Attaches muscles to bones
What are tendons
Adults have 206 of these
What are bones
When a bone is moved out of its socket or joint
What is a dislocation
Bone tissue that has many open spaces
What is spongy bone
Allows little to no movement
What is a fixed joint
Connect the bones to bones
What is ligament
Every bone in your body except one in your head forms one of these
What is a joint
When a joint is swelled up or stiff
What is arthritis
Steady, moderately intense activity
What is aerobic exercise
Enables you to flex and extend
What is hinged
Help cushion the area in joint where bones meet
What is cartilage
Some bones in your body start out as this
What is cartilage
A skeletal diseases that causes bones to become less dense and break more easily
What is osteoporosis