Types of joints
What type of joint is immovable and connected by fibrous connective tissue?
What are fibrous joints?
Name the two divisions of the skeleton.
What are the axial and appendicular skeletons
This function of the axial skeletal system
What is protection?
This fluid lubricates joints and nourishes cartilage.
What is synovial fluid?
This type of bone cell builds new bone tissue.
What are osteoblasts?
These slightly movable joints are connected by cartilage
What are cartilaginous joints?
The shoulder girdle consists of these two bones
What are the clavicle and scapula?
This type of bone houses the marrow for blood cell production.
What are long bones?
The knee is classified as this type of joint.
What is a modified hinge joint
This process involves replacing cartilage with bone during development.
What is endochondral ossification?
Name two examples of synovial joints (Type & location).
shoulder or hip- ball and socket
carpals/tarsals-gliding
elbow, knee, metacarpals- hinge
thumb-saddle
neck, wrist-pivot
How many bones make up the adult human skeleton?
206
Name two minerals stored in bones.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
Name the two cruciate ligaments in the knee.
What are the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)?
Bone remodeling is influenced by three factors. Name one.
What is hormones, mechanical stress, or nutrition?
This synovial joint allows for multi-axial movement, including rotation.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
Name the five regions of the vertebral column.
What are cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal regions?
What is the primary function of sesamoid bones?
What is to protect tendons from stress and wear?
Identify the cartilage that acts as a shock absorber in the knee.
What are the menisci?
The growth plate in developing bones is also called this.
What is the epiphyseal plate?
Identify the joint type that enables rotational movement of the head.
What is a pivot joint?
Which bones make up the pelvic girdle?
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
This process occurs within bone marrow and is responsible for producing red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
What is hematopoiesis?
What is the range of motion for knee flexion?
What is 0° to 140°?
Which bone cell type is responsible for breaking down bone tissue?
What are osteoclasts?