Anatomical Terminology
Standing on your toes requires your foot to be _____.
What is plantarflexed?
The two types of skeletons.
What is axial and appendicular?
The other name for spongy bone.
What is cancellous bone?
The other name for bone forming cells?
What is osteoblasts?
What is another name for a joint?
What is articulation?
The frontal bone is ________ to the occipital bone.
What is anterior?
The number of bones in each of the two skeletons.
Axial = 80
Appendicular = 126
Lies between the epiphysis and diaphysis.
What is the epiphyseal plate? (growth plate)
What is an osetocyte?
osteoblasts that have been deposited with calcium
What does a ligament connect?
2 bones
Define the transverse plane.
What is divides the body into superior and inferior halves.
List the bones that make up the spine and how many of each there are.
7 cervical; 12 thoracic; 5 lumbar; sacrum; coccyx
The 3 functions of the periosteum.
acts as an attachment site for tendons, protective covering, and site where osteoblasts are found
What is one major component of bone?
calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate
Name the three main types of joints.
fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial
What is the difference between proximal and medial?
What is proximal is closer to the trunk and medial is closer to the midline.
The number of bones that are fused together to form the coccyx.
4
What is the endosteum?
inside lining of the hard bone
What is the specific function of osteoclasts?
dissolve calcium previously stored in bone and carries it to tissues when needed
Name four types of synovial joints.
ball and socket, hinge, plane (gliding), saddle, condyloid (ellipsoid), pivot
The two other names for the lateral plane.
What is coronal and frontal?
What does the thorax consist of?
12 pairs of ribs which join the thoracic vertebrae, sternum, and cartilage.
What is the function of the medullary cavity?
houses bone marrow that is responsible for forming red and white blood cells and platelets
Name two sites where cartilage is not replaced by bone in the body?
end of the nose, external ear, walls of the voice box (larynx), trachea, between ribs and sternum
What is another name for the joint capsule?
articular capsule