Name that bone
This is the name for the thigh bone which is also the longest bone in your body.
What is the femur?
This cranial bone is the forehead and the roof of the eye sockets.
What is the frontal bone?
This is the term for bone cells.
What is osteocytes?
This is the name of the lower jaw.
What is the mandible?
These joints do not move. Example - skull
What are synarthroses?
This is the name for the bone in the upper arm.
What is the humerus?
The upper parts of the sides of the skull.
What is the parietal bone?
This is the hardening and development process of osteocytes.
What is ossification?
This is the name of the bones in your fingers and toes.
What are phalanges?
These joints move freely. Example - knee.
What are diarthroses?
This is the medical term for your breastbone.
What is the sternum?
The back and base of the skull with an opening called the foramen magnum through which the spinal cord passes.
What is the occipital bone?
These are bone forming cells.
What are osteoblasts?
This is the name of the collarbone.
What is the clavicle?
These joints are cartilage joints. Example - vertebrae.
What are amphiarthroses?
This is the name for your shoulder blades.
What is the scapula?
What is the temporal bone?
These are bone dissolving cells.
What are osteoclasts?
This is the name 5 vertebrae in the middle back.
What are the lumbar vertebrae?
These joints are cartilaginous. Example - pelvis.
What are symphysis?
This is the name of the first 7 vertebrae in the neck.
What is the cervical vertebrae?
The base of the cranium which holds together the frontal, occipital, and ethmoid bones.
What is the sphenoid bone?
Ossification depends on these three things.
What is calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D?
These 3 fused bones compose the pelvic girdle.
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
These joints have a membrane that covers and secretes fluid. Example - hip joints
What are synovial joints?