Skeleton Regions and Bone Shapes
The two divisions of the skeleton.
What are the axial and appendicular skeleton?
The bone cells that make new bone.
What are osteoblasts?
Joints, such as sutures, that don't allow movement, are found here.
What is skull?
The organ protected by the skull.
What is the brain?
The type of joint in the elbows.
What is hinge joint?
The arms and legs are part of this division of the skeleton.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This happens to the bones in an infant's head as they get older.
What is they fuse together?
general category of highly moveable joints, filled with fluid .
What is synovial ?
The element/mineral stored in the bones (needed to keep bones strong).
What is calcium?
These two places (or technically 4 places) have the most bones located there.
What are the hands and feet?
The skull, vertebral column and rib cage are part of this region of the skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?
How many bones does on average do we have
What is 206
The most movable joint, like the ones found in the shoulder and hip.
What are ball-and-socket joints?
What are cervicall -7; thoracic - 12; lumbar- 5, sacrum - 5 (fused) and coccyx - 4 (fused)?
This is the hardening of the bones
What is ossification?
The four bone shapes.
What are short, long, flat, and irregular?
Found in joints, the structures that attach bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
The only location of saddle joints.
What are the thumbs?
Movement occurs when bones are pulled one by these.
What are muscles?
When a bone protrudes through the skin when it is broken
What is compound fracture
The vertebrae are this bone shape.
What is irregular?
The only bone of the body that does not articulate with another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
The knee joint (that allows for flexion and extension only) is this type of joint.
What are hinge joints?
Red blood cell production occurs in this tissue found in bones.
What is red bone marrow?
This is where the smallest bones are located.
What is in the ear (malleus, incus, and stapes)?
The bones of the cranium are this bone shape.
What are flat bones?
It makes up your nose and ears.
What is cartilage?
The type of joint found in the wrist.
What is Gliding?
The heel works as a lever for calf muscles. What is the term for the heel bone?
What is calcaneus.
a break in the bone when it is twisted .
What is spiral fracture?
The long bones in your legs.
What are the tibia, fibula, and femur?
The large bone at the front of the skull
What is the frontal bone?
the joint formed between the teeth and bones
What is gomphoses?
What abduction
What is another name for the scapula.
What is shoulder blade?
The tarsals and carpals are this bone shape.
What are short bones?
Where 2 or more bones come together is this.
What is a joint/articulation?
The 2 bones in the cervical vertebrae that form a pivot joint are named the __ and __
What are the atlas and axis?
Patella is found here
What is the front of the knee area?
When the mandible is pushed forward, creating an underbite
what is protraction
The short bones in your fingers and toes.
What are phalanges?
Found at the end of long bones, acting as a cushion
What is cartilage?
The hip joint is an example of this type of joint.
What is a ball and socket
The disease that results when bones become weak due to not enough calcium.
What is osteoporosis?
A buildup or uric acid, called hyperuricemia, in the blood, which then deposits in the joints is more commonly referred to as
What is gout?
The long bones in your arm.
What are the humerus, radius, and ulna?
The membrane that lines the outside of bones and is filled with blood vessels and nourishes the bone.
What is periosteum?
Inflammation (swelling) and stiffness of a joint.
What is arthritis?
The location of the clavicle
Where is between the sternum and shoulder?
Tell at least 2 differences in the pelvis of men and women
What is
women - wider, shorter, tilted forward, bones lighter, larger pubic arch
men - narrower, taller, tilted backward, heavier bones, with a smaller pubic arch