Bone Names
The name of your knee cap bone.
What is the patella?
The bone in that makes up the upper part of the leg.
What is the femur?
When cells make new bone.
What is bone formation?
The name of the process in which calcium levels are maintained in the body.
What is the calcium feedback loop.
The bones that make up the fingers and toes.
What are phalanges?
The name of your collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
The long bone in the forearm that connects to the wrist.
The cells that make new bone.
What is osteoblasts?
Where PTH is produced.
What is the parathyroid gland?
The portion of the skeleton consisting of the pectoral and pelvic girdles and the bones of the arms, wrists, legs, and feet.
What is the appendicular skeleton.
The proper name of the hip bone.
What is the pelvis?
The bone that houses the brain.
What is the cranium?
The cells that talk to other bone cells, telling them whether to absorb old bone or to make new bone.
What is osteocytes?
The hormone released when calcium levels rise.
What is calcitonin?
The name of your tail bone.
What is the coccyx?
The name of the three bones in the ear (in order).
Malleus, Incus, and Stapes
The top bones of the vertebrae, center bones of the vertebrae, and the lower bones of the vertebrae.
What is the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar?
Cell that make new bones.
What is osteoblasts?
Where the thyroid gland is located.
What is the base of your neck (just below the Adam's apple)?
The amount of bones a normal human adult has.
What is 206?
The name of the jaw bone.
The U-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.
What is the hyoid bone?
The 4 stages of bone healing (in order).
What is blood clot, spongy callus, boney callus, and remodeling?
Why calcium is important.
What is to maintain strong bones and to move muscles?
The lowest and smallest part of the sternum.
What is the Xiphoid Process?