Skeleton
Forms the extremities and is composed of the shoulder girdle, arm bones, pelvic girdle, and leg bones.
What is the Appendicular skeleton?
The shaft, or middle section, of a long bone.
What is the Diaphysis?
Soft tissue in the diaphysis of long bones.
What is Yellow Marrow?
The 8 bones of the wrist.
What is Carpals?
Long bone of the forearm on the thumb side.
Forms the main trunk of the body and is composed of the skull, spinal column, ribs, and breastbone.
What is the Axial skeleton?
Membrane lining the medullary canal of a bone.
What is the Endosteum?
Area between the cranial bones where the bones have not fused together.
What is Fontanels?
The collarbones.
12 pairs of narrow, curved bones that surround the thoracic cavity.
What is the Ribs?
An articulation, or area where two bones meet.
What is Joints?
The end or head at the extremity of a long bone.
A passage or opening where nerves and blood vessles travel throughout the bones.
What is Foramina?
The long bone of the upper arm.
What is the Humerus?
The shoulder blades of the body; form part of the shoulder girdle.
What is the Scapula?
Fibrous tissue that connects bone to bone.
What is Ligaments?
Inner or central portion of a long bone.
What is the Medullary Canal?
Soft tissue in the epiphyses of long bones.
What is Red Marrow?
Bones of the hand between the fingers and carpal bones.
What are Metacarpals?
Seven bones that form the ankle.
What are the Tarsals?
A system made of organs called bones.
What is Skeletal System?
Fibrous membrane that covers the bones except at joint areas.
What is the Periosteum?
Areas where the cranial bones have joined together
What is Sutures?
Long bones of the forearm on the pinky side.
What is the Ulna?
Bones of the fingers and toes.
What are Phalanges?