Terms 1
The abbreviation for fracture
What is Fx?
The term for skull
What is crani/o?
Where the formation of blood cells takes place
What is red bone marrow?
A connective tissue that is the 2nd hardest tissue in the human body
What is bone?
The skeletal system works together with muscles & ligaments to provide this function
What is movement?
The meaning of cost/o
What is rib?
The term for vertebra
What is vertebr/o?
The outer covering of a bone
What is periosteum?
This functions as fat storage
What is yellow bone marrow?
Found in spongy bone, this tissue is hemopoietic
What is red bone marrow?
The term for hump or bent
What is kyph/o?
The meaning of the term lord/o
What is swayback, curve or bent?
Yellow bone marrow is found here
What is the medullary cavity?
These structures form the roof of the cranium
What are the parietal bones?
This functions as a shock absorber found in the knee joint
What is the meniscus?
OR What is cartilage?
The meaning of the term myel/o
What is spinal cord or bone marrow?
The meaning for the term -lysis
What is loosening or setting free?
Inflexible layers of dense connective tissue known as sutures
What are fibrous joints?
This structure covers the surface of bones where they come together to form a joint
What is articular cartilage?
This structure functions as the only moveable bone of the skull
What is the mandible?
The term for slipping
What is -listhesis?
The term for bent, crooked or fused together
What is ankyl/o?
An opening in a bone through which blood vessels, ligaments and nerves pass
What is a foramen?
Connected by ligaments, these structures permit a variety of movement
What are synovial joints?
This protects the organs of digestion, excretion & reproduction and makes movement possible
What is the appendicular skeleton?