Skeletal System Basics
Bones 1
Bones 2
Bony Landmarks
Pathologic Conditions
100

Another word for joint

What is an Articulation?

100

A tough, flexible connective tissue with high water content, so it is softer than bone.  

What is Cartilage?

100

The longest, strongest, and heaviest bone in the body.  

What is the Femur?

100

A large ridge on a bone.

What is a crest?

100

An excessive lumbar curvature.

What is hyperlordosis?

200

The function of bones include: Protecting soft tissues, stores calcium, and minerals and

What is providing attachment points for muscles/ligaments and producing blood cells?

200

The place where blood cells are formed in adults. 

What is red bone marrow?

200

Examples of flat bones

What are Ribs or Skull bones

200

A shallow depression in the surface or at the end of a bone.

What is a fossa?

200

A fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of a bone.

What is an avulsion fracture?

300

The study of human motion.

What is Kinesiology?

300

The light-weight portion of bone, which is made up of trabeculae.

What is Spongy bone/ Cancellous bone?

300

A U-shaped bone attached to the tongue.  

What is the Hyoid bone?

300

A small, rounded process.  

What is a tubercle?

300

Irritation from the patellar tendon pulling on the tibial tuberosity during rapid growth or overuse of the quadriceps femoris. 

What is Osgood-Schlatter syndrome?

400

The grouping of the skeleton between the appendages and the skull and core.

what is the Axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton?            

400

Bones of the pelvic girdle.  

What are the Ilium, ischium, pubis, and sacrum?

400

A bone looks like a bat with its wings extended

What is the sphenoid bone?

400

A tunnel or canal found in a bone.  

What is a meatus?

400

A deep, sharp and bruised sensation at the arch and pain at the attachment at the heel

What is Plantar Fasciitis?

500

The thin membrane of connective tissue that lines the marrow cavity of a bone called?

What is the Endosteum?

500

A type of bone that develops within a tendon or joint capsule.

What are Sesamoid bones?

500

The only voluntarily movable bone of the skull.

What is the mandible?

500

Names of processes that form joints.

What are Condyle, head, facet, process, trochlea?

500

A disorder of the bone in which calcium and other minerals are lacking and bone protein is diminished.

What is Osteoporosis?

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