Need to Know
Number of bones in an adult body.
What is 206?
Bones are classified by.
What is shape?
A place where two bones meet.
What is a joint?
It takes _____weeks for broken bones to heal.
What is 6 to 8 weeks?
The femur bone, found in your leg.
What is long bone?
Type of skeleton found in the human body.
What is endoskeleton?
Long bones are found in the humerus, radius, and ulna.
What is the arm?
The purpose of joints in the human body.
What is used for flexibility and movement?
A broken bone that doesn't come through the skin.
What is a simple facture?
A thin, pink, membrane covering the outside of the bone.
What is a periosteum?
Bones are made up of.
What is phosphorus and calcium?
Thin and curved bones found in the skull, sternum, and breastbone.
What are flat bones?
The knee is an example of which joint.
What is hinge?
A thin crack in the bone.
What is a stress fracture?
Provides structure, shape, and support for the body.
What is the role of the skeletal system?
Includes the skull, spine, ribs, and sternum.
What is axial skeleton?
The pelvis and vertebrae have unusual shape.
What are irregular bones?
Bones in the skull that have been fused together.
What are fixed joints/sutures?
What is a compound fracture?
The part of the body that has the highest number of bones.
What is the hand?
Includes the arms, hands, legs, feet, shoulders, and hips.
What is appendicular skeleton?
The kneecap or patella is an example of.
What are sesamoid bones?
This type of joint allows side to side and back and forth movement.
What is gliding?
A hormone that reduces the pain when a bone is broken.
What are endorphins?
The bone that protects the brain.
What is a cranium?