Skull
Major organ protected by the skull
What is the brain?
Type of joint found in the neck.
What is a pivot joint?
Bones that make up the pectoral girdle
What are the clavicle and scapula?
Place where two bones meet.
What is a joint?
The bone your sunglasses rest on
What is nasal bone
Type of joints between the teeth and jaw bones.
What is a fixed, immoveable, or fused joint.
Joint formed by the articulation (connection) of the humerus and scapula.
What is a ball and socket joint?
Lower portion of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
Connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
The bone that connects (articulates) the spine to the pelvic girdle
What is sacrum
Two bones that allow you to chew?
What are the mandible and maxillae?
180 degree movement
What amount of movement do hinge joints allow?
Three bones of the pelvic girdle
What are the illium, ischium, and pubis?
The tissue which covers the ends of bones
What is cartilage?
the category of vertabrae which have ribs attached to them
What is thoracic
What are the parietal, sphenoid, ethmoid, temporal, occipital, frontal?
Joint formed by the articulation (connection) of the humerus and scapula.
What is a ball and socket joint
Bone of the thoracic cage that touches (articulates with) one end of the clavicle.
What is the sternum.
Tissues that allow joints to move.
What are tendons and ligaments?
name of 2 processes located on a lumbar vertebrae
spinous and transverse
What is the foramen magnum?
The place in the skull where bones fused/connected as humans grow older.
What are sutures?
2 Features of female pelvic girdle.
What are wider pubic arch, wider opening, wider ilium, straight tail bone.
type of joint between the teeth and jaw bones
What is an example of an fixed joint.
two characteristics of a male skull
sloping forehead, large brow ridges, larger mastoid process, squared jaw