Directional Terms
This term describes a structure that is closer to the body's midline.
What is medial?
This plane divides the body into front and back portions.
What is the frontal plane?
The skeleton helps the body maintain its shape and provides this.
What is a supporting framework?
This is the name for the ends of a long bone.
What are the epiphyses?
This is the name of the bone commonly called the kneecap.
What is the patella?
The elbow is this direction from the wrist.
What is proximal?
This plane divides the body into right and left portions.
What is the sagittal plane?
The skeleton surrounds important organs, such as the brain and heart. This is one of its five major functions.
What is protection?
This type of bone tissue is dense and provides structural support.
What is compact bone?
This bone forms the upper arm, extending from the shoulder to the elbow.
What is the humerus?
A structure located toward the front of the body is described using this term.
What is anterior?
This plane divides the body into upper and lower portions.
What is the transverse plane?
The carpals and tarsals belong to this bone-shape category.
What are short bones?
What is cancellous bone or spongy bone?
These three bones fuse to form each os coxae.
What are the Ilium, Ischium and Pubis?
If a person moves their arm from their side out to the side of their body, they are performing this movement.
What is abduction?
A person performs a forward lunge. The main movement occurs in this plane.
What is the sagittal plane?
The patella belongs to this category of bone, which is embedded within a tendon.
What is a sesamoid bone?
These bone cells release acids and enzymes to remove old bone tissue during remodelling.
What are osteoclasts?
This part of the vertebral column is made up of 12 vertebrae.
What is the thoracic region?
A person moves their arm from an abducted position back toward their body's midline. Name the movement.
What is adduction?
A movement occurs in the frontal plane. The axis of rotation is perpendicular to that plane. Name the axis.
What is the antero-posterior axis?
A bone has a complex shape that does not fit neatly into the long, short, flat or sesamoid categories. It belongs to this category.
What is an irregular bone?
This process describes the formation of bone tissue.
What is ossification?
This prominent projection of the scapula forms the roof of the shoulder and can be felt at the top of the shoulder.
What is the acromion process?