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Types of Bones
Skull Bones
Vertebral Column
Thoracic Cage
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How many bones in the human body?
208
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What are the 5 types of bones?
long, short, flat, sesamoid, irregular
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What are the two categories of skull bones?
cranial & facial
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How many bones in the vertebral column?
26
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manubrium
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What are the two main organs the thoracic cage protects?
heart & lungs
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What type of bone is this?
long bone
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What bone is this? (hint: its a pair)
temporal
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What type of bones are vertebrae?
irregular
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What are the three major parts of the thoracic cage?
thoracic vertebrae, ribs, sternum
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What are the 5 regions of the vertebral column? How many bones make up each?
cervical (7), thoracic (12), lumbar (5), sacrum (1 or 5 fused); coccyx (1 or 3-5 fused)
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What describes a bone that is about as long as it is wide? (cube-shaped)
short bone
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What cranial bone touches all the other cranial bones?
sphenoid bone
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What is the bone highlighted red called?
coccyx
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How many ribs make up the thoracic cage?
24 ribs - 12 pairs
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What is the function of short bones?
provide stability and support
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How are bones separated into categories?
based on their shape
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What bone is highlighted green? (hint: its a pair and a facial bone)
lacrimal
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What is between each vertebrae? What is it made of?
intervertebral disks; cartilage (fibrocartilage)
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What attaches the ribs to the sternum?
costal cartilage
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What are the 8 different facial bone names? Circle the 6 pairs.
maxillae, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, palatine, inferior nasal conchae, mandible, vomer
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What is a special type of bone embedded in a tendon called?
sesamoid bone
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What are the 6 different cranial bone names? Circle the 2 pairs.
Frontal, Occipital, Sphenoid, Ethmoid, Parietal and Temporal
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What is a severe inward curve of the lumbar spine called?
lordosis
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If the main job is protections.... Why isn’t the thoracic cage made of solid bone like the skull with immovable (suture) joints?
The thoracic cage must expand and contract for breathing.