Bone tissues and features
What is a prominent ridge on a bone?
What is Crest?
The connection between the humerus and the scapula is called the ________ joint.
What is the Glenohumeral joint?
Which bone is not in direct contact with any other bone of the skeleton?
What is the Hyoid bone?
What is the largest tarsal bone in the ankle?
What is the Calcaneus?
What is the major function of the skeletal system?
What is support of the body?
What bone feature would most likely have a nerve pass through it?
What is a foramen?
A joint that permits free movement is called ________.
What is Diarthrosis?
Which of the following sutures marks the boundary between the temporal bone and the parietal bone of each side of the skull?
What is the squamous suture?
What type of bone is the patella?
What is sesamoid bone?
A fracture of a bone that is the result of a twisting stress that spreads along the length of the bone is called a(n) ________.
What is spiral fracture?
Secondarily the skeletal system participates in maintaining ____________ levels in body fluids.
What is Calcium?
The structure that surrounds a synovial joint is called (a) ________.
What is a joint capsule?
What bones make up the Cranium?
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital bones?
The only point of direct connection between the pectoral girdle and the axial skeleton is at (the) ________.
What is the sternal end of the clavicle
Small, flat, oddly shaped bones that develop between the flat bones of the skull are called ________.
What are sutural bones?
What other tissue does Bone take part in producing and where?
Red blood cells or adipocytes, in Red and yellow marrow respectively.
On the humerus, the olecranon process of the ulna projects into the ________ when the arm is extended.
What is the Olecranon fossa?
The depression that cradles and protects the pituitary gland is called the ________.
what is the sella turcica?
How many Phalanges are in the appendicular skeleton?
What is 56?
Compared with that of females, the male coccyx ________.
What is points anteriorly?
Which type of cell divides to produce daughter cells that can differentiate readily after a bone is cracked or broken?
What is Osteoprogenitor cell?
An accessory structure of a joint that may subdivide a synovial cavity, channel the flow of synovial fluid, or allow for variations in the shapes of the articular surfaces is a ________.
What is a meniscus?
Bones located within a space in the temporal bone that provide the sense of hearing are called ________.
What are the Auditory ossicles?
What is the structure the projects anteriorly from the lateral end of the scapular spine?
What is the Acromion?
The transverse foramina function in ________.
What is protecting the vertebral arteries and vertebral veins, which are important blood vessels supplying the brain