Vocabulary
Bones
Origins and Insertions
Joints
100

The junction between bones

What is a joint/articulation?

100

These bones form the zygomatic arch (cheekbones)

What are the zygomatic and temporal bones?

100

Originating from the sternum, inserting at the hyoid

What is the sternohyoid?

100

This type of joint can be found at the hip or shoulder

What is a ball and socket joint?

200

A hole or perforation in bone

What is a foramen?

200

The bridge between phalanges and tarsals, we have 10 of these in our body

What are the metatarsals?

200

These muscles both originate at the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone

What is the medial and lateral pterygoid?

200

To decrease the angle between two bones or surfaces

What is flexion?

300

A projection from a bone

What is a process?

300

Ipsilateral bones in the lower arm

What are the radius and ulna?

300

Originating at the upper thoracic vertebrae, inserting at the temporal and occipital bone

What is the splenius capitis?

300

Pivot joints only allow this type of movement

What is rotation around a single axis?

400

Two or more muscles performing the same action

What are synergists?

400

This bone can be found at the base of the vertebral column

What is the sacrum?

400

The insertion(s) of the trapezius

What are the spine, acromion process of the scapula, and clavicle?

400

The location of the squamous suture

What is the parietal and temporal bone?

500

A completely fixed joint, unable to move

What is synarthrosis?

500

This bone can be found on the ____ side of the body

What is the left scapula?

500

The origin and insertion of the external obliques

What are the lower (8) ribs (origin), iliac crest and pubis (insertion)?

500

The temporomandibular joint is freely movable, making it ____

What is diarthrotic?