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General Features
Axial Skeleton
Appendicular Skeleton
Articulations
Types of Movement
100
Bones that are longer than they are wide.
What are long bones?
100
This encloses the cranial cavity.
What is the brain case?
100
There are 5 of these in each hand.
What are metacarpals?
100
Another name for a joint.
What is an articulation?
100
Increasing the angle of a joint.
What is extension?
200
Central shaft of long bones.
What is the diaphysis?
200
The lower jaw.
What is the mandible?
200
Bones that makes up the pectoral girdle.
What is the scapula and the clavicle?
200
Freely movable joints, fluid in a cavity?
What are synovial joints?
200
Movement in a superior direction.
What is elevation?
300
Found within the cavities of cancellous bone.
What is red marrow?
300
The bone shaped like a "U" not attached to the skull.
What is the hyoid?
300
The heel.
What is the calcaneus?
300
Type of synovial joint that allows a wide range of movement, almost any direction (hip).
What is ball-and-socket?
300
Movement away from the median or midsagittal plane.
What is abduction?
400
The formation of new bone by osteoblasts.
What is ossification?
400
A canal that enables sound waves to reach the eardrum.
What is the external acoustic meatus?
400
The 3 bones that make up each coxae.
What are the ilium, the ischium, and the pubis?
400
Shock-absorbing fibrocartilage pads.
What are menisci?
400
Movement in a cone shape, the joint being the point.
What is circumduction?
500
Stimulates increased bone breakdown and increased blood calcium levels.
What is parathyroid hormone?
500
A small bone in the orbit just above the nasolacrimal canal.
What is the lacrimal?
500
A projection that extends from the scapular spine to form the point of the shoulder.
What is the acromion process?
500
"Soft spots" in a baby's skull.
What are fontanels?
500
Turning the foot so that the plantar surface faces laterally.
What is eversion?