Skull
Upper jaw bone
What is the maxilla?
3 bones that compose the pelvis
What are the ilium (or iliac bone), ischium, and pubis (or pubic bone/pubic symphysis)?
The 6 major bones of the arms and legs.
What are the humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula?
What are true, false, and floating ribs?
What are the 3 major types of joints?
What are fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial?
Suture that divides the parietal bone into left and right sides.
What is the sagittal suture?
Tailbone
What is the coccyx?
Kneecap
What is the patella?
Top portion of the breastbone.
What is the manubrium?
Type of synovial joint found in the neck.
What is the name of the large hole at the base of the skull that allows passage of the spinal cord to the brain?
What is the foramen magnum?
Socket of the pelvis that forms a joint with the head of the femur.
What is the acetabulum?
Type of synovial joint found in the knee and elbow.
What is a hinge joint?
Lower portion of the breastbone.
What is the xiphoid process?
Joint found in the thumb.
What is a saddle joint?
Suture that forms the border between the parietal and occipital bones at the back of the skull
What is the lambdoid suture?
Triangular bone consisting of 5 fused vertebrae, located inferior to the lumbar vertebrae.
What is the sacrum?
Greater and lesser trochanter, lateral and medial condyles, intercondylar fossa
What are bony landmarks of the femur?
Acromion, coracoid process, supraspinous fossa
What are bony landmarks of the scapula?
What is a gliding joint?
Area of the forehead between the eyebrows.
Glabella
Foramen in the ischium.
What is the obdurator foramen?
Olecranon process, trochlear notch, coronoid process
What are bony landmarks of the ulna?
Bony landmark found only in cervical vertebrae.
What is the transverse foramen?
The 3 types of fibrous joints
What are sutures, syndesmoses, and gomphoses?