Know Your Terms
Unlike the exoskeleton present in bugs, humans have this system to support and protect the organs.
What is an endoskeleton?
The skeletal system can be divided into these two parts.
What are axial and appendicular?
These are the four main types of joints.
What are ball-and-socket, pivot, ellipsoidal, and hinge joints?
Bones act as the principal storage for these two minerals.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
This is the inflammation of a joint, most common in older adults.
What is arthritis?
This is how the body makes new bone cells.
What is ossification?
This segment of the skeletal system is made up of the 80 bones in your head, spine, ribs, and sternum.
What is the axial skeleton?
This type of joint allows for the widest range of movement: backward, forward, sideways, and in a circle.
What are ball-and-socket joints?
This spongy substance makes up the inside of bones.
What is marrow?
Bony growths that form in the joint where the big toe meets the foot.
What are bunions?
This fluid lubricates joints and allows for smoother movement.
What is synovial fluid?
This segment of the skeletal system is made up of the 126 bones in your shoulders, arms, hands, hips, legs, and feet.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This fibrous, slightly elastic tissue binds the bone ends at the joint.
What are ligaments?
Bones are this many times stronger than concrete.
What is four times?
This is the lateral curvature of the spine, often diagnosed in adolescence.
What is scoliosis?
This word, defined as the study of bones, is made up of the Greek words oste + logia.
What is osteology?
These flat bones protect vital organs like the lungs and heart and are found in the axial skeleton.
What are rib bones?
This structure is similar to bone but softer and acts as a pad to protect some joints from wearing down the bones.
What is cartilage?
Bones are the body's producer of this type of cell.
What are blood cells?
The painful condition that occurs when a bursa in a joint becomes inflamed, most commonly in the shoulder and knee joints.
What is bursitis?
These are the small sacks between a tendon and bone that secrete synovial fluid.
What are bursa?
This bone is the longest in your body and can be found in the appendicular skeleton.
What is the femur bone?
These fibrous cords join muscle to bone or other muscle.
What are tendons?
Bones make up only this percent of your total body weight.
What is 14 percent?
This syndrome made up 30-40 percent of worker's compensation claims in the early 1990s.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?