Integumentary System
Skeletal System
Axial Skeleton
Appendicular Skeleton
Joint Anatomy/Function
100

The layer of skin containing blood vessels, nerves, and hair follicles.

What is the dermis?

100

The living tissue that produces red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

What is bone marrow?

100

The bone that contains the foramen magnum.

What is the occipital bone?

100

The two bones of the forearm.

What are the radius and ulna?

100

Freely movable joints, characterized by a joint cavity.

What are synovial joints?

200

Glands that secrete sebum, an oily substance that lubricates the skin.

What are sebaceous glands?

200

The cells that build bone.

What are osteoblasts?

200

The suture that joins the parietal bones.

What is the sagittal suture?

200

The bones that make up the ankle.

What are the tarsal bones?

200

The tough, fibrous capsule that surrounds a synovial joint.

What is the joint capsule?

300

The visible portion of the hair.

What is the hair shaft?

300

Hyaline cartilage covering the joint surfaces at the epiphyses.

What is articular cartilage?

300

The vertebrae that articulate with the ribs.

What are the thoracic vertebrae?

300

The large socket in the pelvic bone that articulates with the head of the femur.

What is the acetabulum?

300

Connective tissue that connects bone to bone.

What are ligaments?

400

Tiny muscles that cause hair to stand on end.

What are arrector pili muscles?

400

The shaft of a long bone.

What is diaphysis?

400

The first cervical vertebra, which supports the head.

What is the atlas (C1)?

400

The process on the ulna that forms the elbow.

What is the olecranon process?

400

Movement away from the midline of the body.

What is abduction?

500

The outermost layer of the epidermis, composed of dead, keratinized cells.

What is the stratum corneum?

500

The part of bone that replaces epiphyseal growth plate.

What is epiphyseal line?

500

The three parts of the sternum.

What are the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process?

500

The heel bone.

What is the calcaneus?

500

Immovable joints, such as those in the skull.

What are fibrous joints (or sutures)?