Long Bone
A specific long bone in the arm, attached to the shoulder.
What is the humerus?
A thin and narrow facial bone in the nasal cavity.
What is a vomer?
The number of floating ribs.
What significance does the number 4 have in the axial skeleton?
The bone of the upper arm.
What is the humerus?
The type of synovial joint with the most freedom of movement.
What is a ball-socket joint?
The long bone present in the leg, attached to the hip bone.
What is the femur?
A bone in the skull that touches the temporal, frontal, zygomatic, and parietal bones.
What is the sphenoid bone?
What is the sacrum?
The name of the heel bone.
What is the calcaneus?
The joint type present in the knee.
What is a hinge joint?
Thin layer of tissue that lines the medullary cavity.
What is the endosteum?
The smallest and most fragile facial bone in the skull.
What is the lacrimal bone?
12 pairs, for a total of 24.
What is the number of ribs in the axial skeleton?
The only bones in the hand that are considered short bones.
What are carpal bones?
Cartilage present at the ends of bones where they connect to synovial joints.
Location of the yellow bone marrow.
What is the medullary cavity?
Suture in the skull that divides the skull into two lateral sides on each side of the midline.
What is the sagittal suture?
Name for the lowest group of vertebrae.
What is the lumbar vertebrae?
Name for the most distal bones that are found in both the upper and lower limbs.
What are the phalanges?
A type of joint where each end of the bones has both concave and convex portions that complement each other.
What is a saddle joint?
A bone marking from which the nutrient artery extends.
What is a nutrient foramen?
The name of the bone marking found ventral to the mandibular condyle on the mandible of the skull.
What is the coronoid process?
Cartilaginous portions of spine that separate the vertebrae.
What are intervertebral disks?
The largest and uppermost bone in the hip.
What is the ilium?
Specialized connective tissue that lines the joint cavity.
What is the synovial membrane?