Bones
This bone is also known as the Cranium.
What is the Skull?
This joint moves in only one direction like a door hinge.
What is the Hinge Joint?
A type of connection tissue that holds bones at the joint.
What are Ligaments?
This is what the tip of your nose, and ears are made out of.
What parts of the body are Cartilage?
A type of connecting tissue that Joints muscles to bone and muscles to muscles.
What are Tendons?
This bone is the Scapula.
What is the Shoulder Blade?
This joint is ball-shaped head of one bone that moves inside the cup-shaped socket of another. This joint can move in all directions.
What is the Ball-and-Socket Joint?
These fibrous bands of connective tissue serve this primary purpose in the skeletal system.
What is connecting bone to bone?
A strong, flexible tissue that allows Joints to move easily, cushions bones, and supports soft tissues.
What is Cartilage?
This Tendon connects your calf to your heel. Hint: if this becomes damaged you loose your ability to walk.
What is the Achilles Tendon?
This bone is the Patella.
What is the Kneecap?
One part of a bone glides over another bone, allowing a small range of sideways movement.
What is the Gliding Joint?
Unlike tendons, which connect muscle to bone, ligaments are structurally engineered to provide this to your joints.
What is stability?
A firm flexible connective tissue made of specialized cells embedded in a thick gel-like material.
What is Cartilage made of?
Named after a mythical Greek warrior, this is the thickest and strongest tendon in the human body.
What is the Achilles tendon?
This bone is known as the Phalanges.
What are the toes?
The end of one bone rotates inside a ring formed by another. The joint can move up and down and from side to side.
What is the Pivot Joint?
This 12-letter term describes the highly elastic, protein-rich connective tissue that allows ligaments to stretch slightly and snap back into place.
What is ligamentous?
These mature cells reside in small cavities called lacunae within the cartilage matrix and maintain the tissue.
What are chondrocytes?
This is the term for a flat, broad, sheet-like tendon that attaches muscles to bone or other muscles.
What is an aponeurosis?
This is the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the human body, located in the upper leg.
What is the Femur?
Which structural classification of joints is characterized by bones connected by dense regular connective tissue with no joint cavity, exemplified by the sutures of the skull.
Fibrous Joint?
This specific type of highly dense, regular connective tissue makes up the parallel bands of fibers found within a standard ligament.
What is collagen?
Extremely tough and packed with thick collagen fibers, this type of cartilage makes up the intervertebral discs and the pubic symphysis to absorb heavy compression.
What is fibrocartilage?
This protective, fluid-filled tube surrounding certain tendons (especially in the wrist and hand/ankle) reduces friction during movement.
What is a tendon sheath?