Vocabulary
12 pairs of curved bones that form at the chest wall?
Ribs
The longest bone in the body?
Femur
Five separate bones that fuse in a young child?
Sacrum
The two slender bones that support the bridge of the nose?
Nasal bones
The upper arm bone?
humerus
What is another name for a joint
articulation
Knuckle-like process at the end of a bone
Condyle
Muscle connected to internal organs
visceral
Soft spongy tissue found in the interior of flat bones?
Red bone marrow
Larger of the two bones of the lower leg?
Tibia
What bone is composed of 26 bone segments?
Vertebral column
The two large bones that compose the massive upper jaw bones?
Maxillary bones
Medial lower arm?
ulna
inflammation and painful swelling in and around joints caused by deposition of uric acid crystals is called
gouty arthritis: gout
Occipital, sphenoid, frontal, temporal, and ethmoid are all bones of what?
cranium
What percent of skeletal muscles make up your total body weight?
40-50%
Hollow air cavity with in a bone
sinus
Bones of the forefoot?
Phalanges of the toes
Medical definition for the tail bone?
coccyx
The thin single flat bone that forms the lower portion of the nasal septum?
vomer
Lateral lower arm (forearm) bone?
Radius
Chronic inflammation of bones and joints due to degenerative changes
Osteoarthritis
Poor formation of a bone
Osteodystrophy
What muscle works to lift or rotate your arm at the shoulder
Deltoid
Dense, hard connective tissue composing the skeleton
bone
Anterior part of the pelvis?
Pubis
How many bones are there in the verbal of the cervical region?
7
The lower jaw bone?
mandible
Wrist bones; there are two rows of four bones in the wrist.
carpals
Surgical repair of a joint
Arthroplasty
Another word for softening of the bone due to Vitamin D deficiency
Osteomalacia
What muscles are divided into three types:
smooth, cardiac, and skeletal
Individual segment of the spine composed of the vertebral (spongy) bone
Vertebra
Smaller of the two lower leg bones?
Fibula
How many bones are there in the thoracic vertebrae?
12
The two bones, one on each side of the face that form the high portion of the cheek?
Zygomatic
The five bones in the palm of the hand?
Metacarpals
What joints are movable joints
synovial joints
The shaft of a long bone is called?
Diaphysis
What is the hardest working muscle in your body
heart muscle
The smallest and lightest bone in the human skeleton is called the Stapes, where is it located?
middle ear
Operation performed to relieve the symptoms of a slipped disc
Laminectomy
Slipping or subluxation of a vertebra
Spondylolisthesis
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-Shaped bone located where?
the base of the tongue
The human hand , including the wrist contains how many bones?
54
Gliding joints are found between flat bones that are held together by.....
ligaments
A splintered or crushed bone
comminuted fracture
Connection of a muscle to the bone that moves:
insertion