Spinal Column
The neck region of your spinal column or backbone.
What is the cervical vertebrae?
Forms the bridge of the nose
What is Nasal Bone?
An unpaired bone that is a part of the boney structure that forms the anterior and superior portion of the skull
What is the frontal?
The main or midsection called the shaft of a long bone.
What is diaphysis?
What is dia-?
A space inside your thorax (chest) that contains your heart, lungs, and other organs and tissues.
What is the thoracic vertebrae?
Forms the cheeks
What is the zygomatic bone?
What is the parietal bone?
The thin membrane covering the bone.
What is periosteum?
Means upon.
What is epi?
Comprises the lower end of the spinal column between the last thoracic vertebrae (T12) and the first sacral vertebra (S1).
What is the lumbar vertebrae?
Upper jaw bone.
What is the maxilla?
The most posterior cranial bone and the main bone of the occiput.
What is the occipital bone?
The inner membrane layer.
What is endosteum?
Means around.
What is peri-?
Is an irregular bone that makes up the back or posterior third of the pelvic girdle.
What is the sacral?
Lower jaw bone.
Comprised of four distinct osseous segments including tympanic, mastoid, petrous, and squamous.
What is the temporal bone?
The middle of the shaft and contains bone marrow.
Means within.
What is endo-?
A small bone that articulates with the sacrum and that usually consists of four fused vertebrae which form the terminus of the spinal column.
What is the coccygeal?
Small and fragile bone roughly the size of the little fingernail.
What is the lacrimal bone?
A line of junction or the joint between two articulating bones, especially of the skull.
What are sutures.
The ends of the bone.
What is proximal and distal epiphysis?
Means bone.
What is oss/i,oste/o,and osse/o?