Overview
Support, protection, allow movement, and storage
What are the functions of the bones?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital bones
What makes up part of the skull?
Clavicle
What are collar bones?
Fibrous joints
Fontanels
Compact, spongy, long, flat, short, irregular
What are the classifications of bones?
Vertebrae in the thoracic spine
What is 12
Humerus
What is the bone of the upper arm?
Cartilaginous joints
What are immovable joints linked by cartilage? (long bones)
The age at when the fontanels usually ossify by
What is 2?
Diaphysis
What is the shaft of the bone?
Scoliosis
What is an abnormality resulting in curvature of the spine
Ilium, ischium, and pubis
What three bones form the hip?
Synovial joints
What are joints separated by a cavity containing fluid? (knee)
Osteoporosis
What is a bone-thinning disease?
Ossification
What is the process of bone formation?
Twelve pairs
What are the number of pairs of ribs?
Longest bone in the body
What is the femur?
Plane, hinge, pivot, saddle, and ball-and-socket
What are different types of synovial joints?
These continue to grow into late adolescence
What are long bones?
Fracture
What is a break in the bone?
Manubrium, body, and xyphoid process
What are the parts of the sternum
Metatarsals
What are the toe bones?
Arthritis
What is inflammation of a joint?
By age 10, the head and trunk are the same height as what?
What are the lower limbs?