Skeletal System Basics
Another word for joint
What is an Articulation?
A tough, flexible connective tissue with high water content, so it is softer than bone.
What is Cartilage?
The longest, strongest, and heaviest bone in the body.
What is the Femur?
A large ridge on a bone.
What is a crest?
An excessive lumbar curvature.
What is hyperlordosis?
The function of bones include: Protecting soft tissues, stores calcium, and minerals and
What is providing attachment points for muscles/ligaments and producing blood cells?
The place where blood cells are formed in adults.
What is red bone marrow?
Examples of flat bones
What are Ribs or Skull bones
A shallow depression in the surface or at the end of a bone.
What is a fossa?
A fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of a bone.
What is an avulsion fracture?
The study of human motion.
What is Kinesiology?
The light-weight portion of bone, which is made up of trabeculae.
What is Spongy bone/ Cancellous bone?
A U-shaped bone attached to the tongue.
What is the Hyoid bone?
A small, rounded process.
What is a tubercle?
Irritation from the patellar tendon pulling on the tibial tuberosity during rapid growth or overuse of the quadriceps femoris.
What is Osgood-Schlatter syndrome?
The grouping of the skeleton between the appendages and the skull and core.
what is the Axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton?
Bones of the pelvic girdle.
What are the Ilium, ischium, pubis, and sacrum?
A bone looks like a bat with its wings extended
What is the sphenoid bone?
A tunnel or canal found in a bone.
What is a meatus?
A deep, sharp and bruised sensation at the arch and pain at the attachment at the heel
What is Plantar Fasciitis?
The thin membrane of connective tissue that lines the marrow cavity of a bone called?
What is the Endosteum?
A type of bone that develops within a tendon or joint capsule.
What are Sesamoid bones?
The only voluntarily movable bone of the skull.
What is the mandible?
Names of processes that form joints.
What are Condyle, head, facet, process, trochlea?
A disorder of the bone in which calcium and other minerals are lacking and bone protein is diminished.
What is Osteoporosis?