Bones 1
The large bone in your thigh.
What is the femur?
The name for the collection of bones in your head.
What is the skull?
These are found at the elbow, knees, shoulders, wrists and many other places in the skeletal system. They allow for movement.
What are joints?
This is the gooey stuff inside of our bones.
What is marrow?
Many of the kid patients in the video could bend their joints (more / less) than normal.
What is more?
This large bone structure wraps around your heart, lungs, and many other organs to protect them from injury.
What is the ribcage?
This bone is in the center of your chest and your ribcage connects to it.
What is the sternum?
This bone contains your hip sockets and connects your spinal column to your legs.
What is the pelvis?
Our bone marrow creates our ______?
What is blood?
Due to a bone condition that also cause "floppy joints," this young girl was much (shorter / taller) normal.
What is shorter?
Often informally called your backbone, this bone structure protects a special cord that runs from your brain to all of your appendages and has an incredible amount of joints.
What is the spinal column?
This is the bone in your upper arm.
What is the humerus?
This is the main structural bone in your lower leg that we often call the "shin" bone.
What is the tibia?
The name for the softer, porous material of our bones underneath the hard exterior (not the marrow).
What is spongy bone?
The overly flexible joint conditions are typically cause by weaker _______ in the ligaments and tendons, making the joints more elastic.
This is the second, smaller bone in your lower leg.
What is the fibula?
This is the inside, smaller bone in the forearm, connecting the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist.
What is the ulna?
This is the larger, outside bone in the forearm, connecting the elbow to the pinky side of the wrist.
What is the radius?
The name for the hard exterior of our bones.
What is compact bone?
The weaker collagen found in many of these patient's joints cause more _________ in the ligaments and tendons. (Starts with an "e" - think rubber band)
What is elasticity?
This is the shoulder bone running along the upper chest side, from the neck to the outer shoulder.
What is the clavicle?
This is the flat bone you can feel in your upper back at the shoulder, one in each shoulder. It is often informally called the "shoulder blade."
What is the scapula?
Though not on your worksheet, this is the name for the jaw bone portion of the skull.
What is the mandible?
Our bone marrow stores many ________ and also stores ____ which can enter our bloodstream as needed through the small capillary blood vessels in our bones.
What are minerals and fats?
The ability to move your joints farther than normal is often called __________
What is hypermobility?