How Bones are made
Breaks down bone
What are Osteoclasts?
Cube-shaped (e.g., carpals, tarsals)
What are short bones?
Allows full range of motion (e.g., shoulder, hip)
What is ball-and-socket?
stabilize joints and prevent excessive motion; bone to bone
What are ligaments?
The number of bones you have in your foot
Mature bone cells
What are Osteocytes?
Longer than wide (e.g., femur, humerus)
What are Long Bones?
Movement in one plane (e.g., elbow, knee) *HINT > Flexion and Extension
What is hinge joint?
provide structure and movement
What are bones?
How many Phalanges on each foot?
what is 14?
Builds new bone
What are Osteoblasts?
Thin, flat, and usually curved (e.g., skull, ribs)
What are flat bones?
Rotation around an axis (e.g., neck)
What is Pivot Joint?
Connect muscles to bones and allow movement; bone to muscle
What are tendons?
What is 7?
Includes: Skull (cranium and facial bones); Vertebral Column (spine: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, coccyx); Rib Cage (12 pairs of ribs + sternum)
What is the Axial Skeleton?
Embedded in tendons (e.g., patella)
What are Sesamoid Bones?
Sliding motion (e.g., wrist, ankle)
What is Gliding Joint?
Also known as articulations
What are joints?
Number of Metatarsals in the foot and how do you label them?
What is 5 and medial to lateral?
This is all about movement—the limbs and what they attach to.
What is Appendicular Skeleton?
Odd-shaped (e.g., vertebrae, pelvis)
What are Irregular Bones?
Allows movement back and forth and side to side (e.g., thumb)
What is saddle joint?
Standing upright, facing forward, arms at the sides with palms facing forward, feet parallel and facing forward.
What is anatomical position?
The digit that does not have a intermediate phalange
What is the Hallux?