Bone ID
Joints
Disorders & Injuries
Cells & Tissues
Bone Anatomy
100
Femur
100
The joints between skull bones.
What are immovable joints?
100
An injury where a bone is completely out of its joint.
What is a dislocation?
100
A fully matured bone cell.
What is an osteocyte?
100
The type of marrow that produces blood cells.
What is red marrow?
200
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Patella
200
Another name for a movable joint.
What is a synovial joint?
200
A disease common in older people where bones weaken and break more easily.
What is osteoporosis?
200
A type of bone cell that creates new osseous tissue.
What is an osteoblast?
200
The protective padding found at the end of long bones.
What is articular cartilage?
300
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Clavicle
300
A synovial joint that has a range of motion of almost 360 degrees.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
300
This injury is caused by pulling on a child's hand resulting in a ligament being pinched between the radius and humerus.
What is nursemaid's elbow?
300
The process in which a child's more cartilaginous skeleton develops into a mature skeleton of bone tissue.
What is ossification?
300
The membrane that covers the outside of the entire bone.
What is the periosteum?
400
Phalanges
400
The knee is an example of this joint.
What is a hinge joint?
400
A specific type of arthritis where crystals form in the joint.
What is gout?
400
The main structural protein in the bone matrix.
What is collagen?
400
The inner part of the long bone that houses yellow marrow.
What is the medullary cavity?
500
Cervical Vertebrae
500
Joint formed by the radius and ulna.
What is a pivot joint?
500
This type of bone fracture, where a bone bends and cracks, occurs in children younger than 10.
What is a greenstick fracture?
500
The units of bone tissue that encircles blood vessels (haversian canals).
What is an osteon?
500
The end of the bone closer to the trunk of the body.
What is the proximal epiphysis?