What is the location where two or more bones meet?
articulation joint
What are cells that can dissolve the bony matrix?
osetoclasts
What bone comprises your forehead?
frontal
What is the bone that the true ribs attach to?
sternum
What are the ankle bones called?
tarsals
How are shoulder and hip joints classified?
ball-and-joint socket
What is the process of bone formation?
ossification
What bone is your "cheekbone"
zygomatic
What bones make up your arm?
humerus, radius, ulna
True or false:
Osteoporosis is an unnatural "S" curvature of the spine
false
Are the phalanges axial or appendicular?
appendicular
What are cells that can build bony matrix?
osetoblasts
What bone makes up the temples of your skull?
temporal
What is your heel bone?
calcaneus
What is another name for a growth plate, and are they found in children or adults?
epiphyseal plate; children
Is the following statement true or false?
The axial skeleton is composed of the bones of the longitudinal axis of the body, whereas the appendicular skeleton is composed of the limbs ad girdles that attach them to the skeleton.
true
What are layers or rings of calcification that are found in compact bone?
lamellae
What bone is found at the base of your skull where your spine attaches?
occipital
What is another name for your scapula and clavicle?
shoulder blade and collar bone
In bone, what function does collagen provide?
flexibility
Which joint is characterized by the presence of a joint cavity, ligaments, and articular cartilage with an articular capsule?
synovial
What are the tiny cavities in compact bone that house osteocytes?
lacunae
Name the 3 bones that are in your eye socket.
lacrimal, ethmoid, sphenoid
What are the 5 divisions of the spinal vertebrae in order from neck to tail bone?
cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccal
What hormone raises blood calcium levels?
parathyroid hormone (PTH)