Joints
The hip is this type of synovial joint.
What is ball and socket?
This type of muscle is striated and involuntary.
What is cardiac muscle?
The diaphysis of long bones is hollow and filled with yellow marrow. This space is known as
What is the medullary cavity?
This region is directly lateral to the nasal region.
What is the buccal region?
Blood cell production, calcium reserve, and protection are all functions of this system.
What is the skeletal system?
The elbow is this type of synovial joint.
What is hinge?
This is the name for the process by which a muscle shortens during a contraction.
What is the sliding filament theory?
This type of bone make up the outer layer of all bones.
What is compact bone?
The back of the knee is known as this region.
What is the popliteal?
The collar bone is also know as
What is the clavicle?
Straightening a limb from a bent position is known as
What is extension?
These are the names of the "thick" and "thin" filaments of the sarcomere, respectively.
What are myosin and actin?
These bone forming cells help during bone fracture healing.
What are osteoblasts?
A point on a limb that is farther from the point of attachment is considered
What is distal?
The knee cap is also known as
What is the patella?
Twisting your leg or arm clockwise and counterclockwise is an example of this range of motion.
What is rotation?
A group of muscle cells within a skeletal muscle is know as
What is a fascicle?
The four types of bones are short, flat, ___________ and ____________.
What are long and irregular.
The region of the body commonly called the armpit
What is the axial region?
This type of synovial joint permits the most types of movement.
What is the ball and socket joint?
The sutures that connect the bones of the skull are an example of this type of immovable joint.
What are fibrous joints?
These are the three connective tissue covering layers of a skeletal muscle from superficial to deep.
What are epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium?
The membrane covering the outside of a long bone
What is the periosteum?
This anatomical plane divides the body into anterior and posterior halves.
What is the coronal plan?
The skull, ribcage, and vertebral column make up the ____ skeleton.
What the axial?