Get Your Girdle On!
Curved projection of the scapula that helps to stabilize the shoulder joint.
What is the acromion?
Number of bones in a single arm.
Affects children experiencing growth spurts. Children who play sports in which they regularly run and jump are most at risk.
The disease causes a painful lump below the kneecap; the condition usually resolves on its own, once the child's bones stop growing.
What is Osgood-Schlatter disease?
Inferior bone of the pelvic girdle.
What is the ischium?
The marking on the long bone of the tibia that we refer to as out "ankle bone".
What is the medial malleolus?
The location of the thigh.
What is "from the hip joint to the knee joint"?
(the term "joint" MUST be mentioned)
What is "from the wrist joint to the tips of the fingers"?
(the term "joint" MUST be mentioned)
A kind of cancer that begins in the cells that form bones; tends to happen most often in teenagers and young adults, but it also can happen in younger children and older adults.
This cancer can start in any bone; it's most often found in the long bones of the legs, and sometimes the arms.
What is osteosarcoma?
What is the pubic symphysis?
Joint where the ilium and the sacrum meet.
What is the sacroiliac joint?
The correct way to spell the anatomical term for the thumb.
A childhood condition caused by insufficient vitamin D and Calcium; results in bow legs.
What is rickets?
The name of the bone of the lower limb that is furthest away from the hip joint.
What is the distal phalanx?
The bone marking that stabilizes the bones of the wrist.
Overuse or injury of the tendons results in inflammation and pain.
What is tendonitis?
Total number of bones that make up the pectoral and pelvic girdles in a whole body.
What is 12?
(two clavicles, two scapulae, two ilium bones, two ischium bones, two pubic bones, one sacrum, and one coccyx)
(make sure they are in the correct order of the way the weight is passed)
In the pectoral girdle, the head of the humerus fits into the ______ of the scapula; in the pelvic girdle, the head of the femur fits into the ________ of the hip bone.
What is the glenoid cavity (glenoid fossa) and the acetabulum?
a birth defect resulting one or both feet pointing inward and downward. This makes learning to walk difficult and specialized orthopedic therapy or surgery is often required.
What is clubfoot?