Classification
The sternum is this type of bone.
What is a flat bone?
This is the process of bone forming from cartilage.
What is ossification?
This is the name of the inferior tip of your sternum.
What is your Xiphoid process?
This is the name of the largest (and strongest) bone in your body.
What is your Femur?
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What is green?
The shoulder is an example of this type of joint.
What is a Synovial Joint (Ball and socket)?
These are the 'bone breaking' cells.
What are osteoblasts?
This bone is at the very end of your vertebral column (hint: it's not your cranium).
What is the coccyx?
This is the scientific name for your collar bone.
What is your clavicle?
This is the only bone in the human body that does not articulate with any other bones.
What is the hyoid bone?
The sutures in the skull are considered to be this kind of joint.
What are fibrous joints?
These are the "bone forming cells".
What are osteoclasts?
These are the three sections of vertebrae in order from superior to inferior.
What is cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae?
This is the scientific name for the bones distal to your metacarpals and metatarsals.
What are your phalanges?
What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
List five types of synovial joints.
What are Pivot, Hinge, Condyloid, Saddle, and Plane joints.
These run down the center of osteons (through the central canal in a haversian system).
What are blood vessels?
List all of the bones that make up the axial skeleton.
These two bones articulate to make up the pectoral girdle.
What is the clavicle and the scapula?
These are the four functions of the skeletal system.
What is movement (support), protection (of organs), storage of fat, and creation of red blood cells?
Name the five bone shapes and give examples of each.
Flat: sternum...
Irregular: vertebrae...
Short: carpals...
Long: Femur...
Sesamoid: Patella...
This is a dense layer of vascular connective tissue enveloping the bones except at the surfaces of the joints (covers the diaphysis of long bones).
What is the periosteum?
List the bones of the leg starting at your hip and continuing distally.
Femur, Patella, Tibia + Fibula, Tarsals, Calcaneus, Metatarsals, Phalanges.
List the different types of ribs and where they are found.
True Ribs (7 most superior)
False Ribs (4 under true ribs)
Floating Ribs (2 most inferior)
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What is Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz?