More Bones!
Bones of the hand.
What are metacarpals?
A fracture that occurs in a straight line across the bone.
What is transverse?
Shoulder, hips.
What is ball and socket?
The general term for all movable joints.
What are synovial joints?
Decreasing the angle of a joint.
What is flexion?
The type of vertebrae that have ribs attached to them.
What are thoracic vertebrae?
This type of fracture creates pieces of bone between the two large ends.
What is comminuted?
Interphalangeal, elbow.
What is hinge?
These joints are completely immovable and found in the skull.
What are fibrous joints?
Moving a limb towards the body.
What is adduction?
These ribs connect directly to the sternum.
What are true ribs?
These are gaps in an osteon for the osteocytes.
What are lacunae?
Thumb.
What is saddle?
These joints provide a small amount of flexibility, despite being fixed.
What are cartilaginous joints?
Raising up.
What is elevation?
The bone in your throat to help anchor the tongue.
These structures connect osteons together to help radiate the blood supply.
What are perforating canals?
Vertebrae, AC joint, intertarsal
What is gliding?
This is found at the ends of a long bone to help with the joint connection and make movements smooth.
What is articular (hyaline) cartilage?
Turning the palm of the hand down and away from the body.
What is pronation?
Your hip bone.
What is your ilium?
The bone that makes up the medial section of the orbital.
What is the lacrimal bone?
Wrist.
What is ellipsoid?
Only ball and socket and pivot joints can create this full motion.
What is rotation?
Turning the bottom of the foot out.
What is eversion?