Bone Appetit
How many bones does a typical adult human have?
206
What connective tissue attaches bone to bone?
Ligament
Which type of muscle tissue moves the skeleton and is generally under voluntary control?
Skeletal muscle
Is skin an organ, a tissue, or a single type of cell?
Organ
What is the medical term for a broken bone?
Fracture
A burn affects only the epidermis and causes redness and pain without blisters. What degree is it?
1st Degree
What is the official name of the thigh bone—the longest bone in the body?
Femur
What connective tissue attaches muscle to bone?
Tendon
Which type of muscle tissue makes up the muscular walls of the heart?
Cardiac muscle
What is the outermost main layer of the skin?
Epidermis
What condition weakens bones and increases the risk of fractures?
Osteoporosis
A burn destroys the epidermis and the full thickness of the dermis. What degree is it?
3rd Degree...or full thickness burn
The carpals of the wrist belong to which bone-shape category?
Short bones
An ankle sprain stretches or tears which type of tissue?
Ligament
Which type of muscle tissue moves food through the digestive tract?
Smooth muscle
Which skin layer contains blood vessels, hair follicles, and sweat glands?
Dermis
What joint disorder involves deterioration of articular cartilage?
Ostearthritis
A burn damages the epidermis and part of the dermis and commonly causes painful blisters. What degree is it?
2nd Degree...or partial thickness burn
What process takes place in red bone marrow?
Hematopoiesis / Blood cell production
What are the official names of the three bones that form the ankle joint?
Tibia, fibula, and talus
What term describes the muscle chiefly responsible for producing a particular movement?
Agonist, or prime mover
Which epidermal cells produce melanin?
Melanocytes
What spinal condition involves an abnormal sideways curve, often accompanied by vertebral rotation?
Scolosis
Why might the center of a third-degree burn have little or no sensation?
Sensory nerve endings have been destroyed.
What type of bone is the patella, which develops within a tendon?
Sesamoid bone
In the traditional RICE approach to initial injury care, what do the four letters stand for?
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation
During elbow flexion, the biceps acts as a major agonist. Which upper-arm muscle opposes that action?
Triceps
What oily substance produced by sebaceous glands helps lubricate the skin and hair?
Sebum
What is the term for a fracture in which a broken bone communicates with the outside through a wound?
Open fracture /
Compound fracture
Using the adult Rule of Nines, what percentage of body surface area is represented by one entire arm plus the entire anterior trunk?
27%: 9% for the arm + 18% for the anterior trunk.