Organization
The skeleton can be divided into two sections
What is the axial and appendicular skeleton?
Three functions of bones
What is support the body's weight, store blood-producing cells & inorganic salts, provide attachment sites for muscles/tendons, protect internal organs
The number of bones in an adult skull
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Number of bones in the wrist
What is 22?
What is 8?
The fibrocartilage of the vertebrae
What are invertebral discs?
The number of ribs in the thoracic cage.
What is twelve?
The bone that makes up your collarbone
What is your clavicle?
The neck of the humerus that is more superior.
What is the anatomical neck?
The part of the coxa that forms your hipbone.
What is the ilium?
The head of the femur fits into this depression.
What is the acetabulum?
What is synovial?
The axial portion of the skeleton
What are the skull, thoracic cage, and vertebral column?
Bone breaking cells
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Bone forming cells
What are osteoclasts?
What are osteoblasts?
Another name for the cheekbone
What is the zygomatic bone?
The part of the vertebrae that supports the weight of the head and trunk.
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Unique characteristic of cervical vertebra
What is the drum?
What are transverse foramina?
The ______ ribs are considered to be true ribs.
The bones that make up one pectoral girdle
What are the clavicle and the scapula?
The bone found on the thumb side of your arm
What is the radius?
The area where the two pubic regions join anteriorly
What is the symphysis pubis?
Processes on the femur below the head of the femur that provide attachments for the muscles of the lower limbs
What are the greater and lesser trochanters?
The upward movement of the upper limb during a jumping jack
What is abduction?
The appendicular skeleton
What are the pelvic girdle, upper limbs, and lower limbs?
The function of an epiphyseal plate
What is to increase bone length?
Soft spots in an infants skull
What are fontanels?
The spinous processes of these vertebra may be bifid, or forked
What are the cervical vertebrae?
Another name for ribs that are not attached to the sternum
What are floating ribs?
This separates the scapula into unequal portions
What is the spine?
The bones of the upper limbs proximal to the hand
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The bones distal to the humerus (including the hand)
What are the humerus, radius, ulna?
What are the carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges?
What are the ilium, ischium, and the pubis?
What is the tibia?
The covering on the end of bones that allows for articulation with another bone
What is hyaline cartilage/articular cartilage?
There are _____ carpals and _____ metacarpals that make up the wrist and palm of the hand
What are 8 & 5?
When the calcium concentration of blood is high, a signal is sent to release a this cell
What are osteoblasts?
What is the temporal bone?
The first and second vertebra
What are the atlas and axis?
The typical rib head articulates with the _________ of the thoracic vertebra
What is facet?
The structure that receives the head of the humerus.
What is the glenoid cavity?
The portion of the ulna that connects with the anterior fossa of the humerus
What is the coranoid process?
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The ilium joins the sacrum at this point posteriorly.
What is the coccyx?
What is the iliac joint?
This is the prominence of the inner ankle at the distal end of the tibia.
What is the medial malleolus?
This type of joint involves complementary convex and concave surfaces on each bone
What is a saddle joint?
The suture that joins the temporal bone and parietal bone
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The suture that joins the parietal bones
What is the squamous suture?
What is the coronal suture?
Another term for blood cell formation
Hemopoiesis
The bones that join to form your cheekbones.
What are the temporal bone and the zygomatic bone?
There are ____ cervical vertebra, _____ thoracic vertebra, and ____ lumbar vertebra
What are 7, 12, 5?
The three parts of the sternum.
What are the upper manubrium, the middle body, and the lower xiphoid process?
The part of the scapula that meets the clavicle.
What is the acromion process?
The two structures that fit together at the elbow when the arm is extended.
What are the olecrannon process and the olecrannon fossa?
The structure that receives the head of the femur
What is the acetabulum?
The calcaneus is considered to be part of this group of bones.
What are the tarsal bones?
The most common motion of the ankle during an ankle sprain
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Turning the hand in a "pouring the soup" motion
What is inversion?
What is pronation?