Types of Joints
Elbow and Knees
What is a hinge joint
Human body
What are 206 bones?
The soft spot in the top of the skull
What is the fontanel?
Walks on 2 legs.
What is biped?
Walking on the fingernails or toenails (hooves) and give an example.
What is unguligrade? Horse.
Wrist
What is a gliding joint?
Cat body
What are 244 bones?
The part of the body housing digestive organs.
What is the abdomen?
Walks on four legs.
What is quadruped?
Walking on the soles of the feet or palm of hands and give an example.
What is plantigrade? Bear
Phalanges & carpels
What are saddle joints?
Horse body
What are 205 bones?
The study of the structures in the body that can only be viewed with a microscope?
What is histology?
Attached bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
Walking on toes or fingers and give an example.
What is digitigrade? Cats, dogs.
Skull and pelvis
What are fused joints?
Hamster body
What are 124 bones?
The bones of the head and trunk including the vertebrae and ribs.
What is the axial skeleton?
Areas where bones meet.
What are joints?
Provides protection for the brain.
What is the skull?
Spine-vertebral column
What are pivot joints?
Dog body
What are 321 bones?
The bones that make up the shoulders, fore limbs, pelvis, and hind limbs.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Process of cartilage changing to bone.
What is ossification?
Provided protection, support, and shape for the thoracic cavity.
What are the ribs?