Misc 1
What is the shaft of a long bone called
Diaphysis
Vitamin D does what for the bones
Absorbs calcium
Articulation is known as what?
A joint
What do bones protect?
Brain and internal organs
What happens when the growth plate ossifies in a bone?
Bone growth stops
What is a fibrous joint
immovable joints
The rib cage is known as what kind of bone
Flat bone
Where are Frontal bones found
Forehead region and Skull
Coccyx is also known as?
Tailbone
What do bones provide
Support for our body, shape, and blood cells
What is synovial fluid
What is a Osteoclast
absorbs bone tissue during growth healing, breaks down bones, forms bone matrix.
Cardiac muscles are connected to what?
Intercalated disk
Plantar flexion does what?
Pointing of the toes
Which skeletal muscles responds to which of the neurotransmitters?
Acetylcholine
What separates the thorax and the abdominal cavity
Diaphragm
What is the muscle that helps you chew
Mastoid
What is a torticollis?
Wry Neck
Osteocytes is?
mature bone cells
Acetabulum is what?
hip socket
What is a Scapula?
Shoulder blade, a thin triangle shape flat bone
What is the crest known as?
Narrow ridge like projection
What does the sphincter help to regulate?
Contents of a hollow organs
Which muscle abducts and extends in your shoulder?
Deltoids
When you have a muscle spasm or cramp what happens?
oxygen debt