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100
These are the two types of bones.
What are compact and cancellous?
100
This is another name for the collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
100
This is another name for an articulation.
What is a joint?
100
This is a condition of abnormally increased size that usually involves excessive bone growth.
What is giantism?
100
This is how many bones there are in the human body.
What is 206?
200
These are the four types of bone, based on their shapes.
What are long, short, flat, and irregular?
200
This is the largest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
200
These are the three types of joints.
What are fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial?
200
This is the inflammation of a joint, also the most common joint disorder.
What is arthritis?
200
This is another name for the knee bone.
What is patella?
300
These cells form bones, but also repair and remodel them.
What are osteoblasts?
300
This is another name for the breast bone.
What is the sternum?
300
Bursae are associated with this type of joint.
What is a synovial joint?
300
This is a bursitis that develops over the joint at the base of the big toe.
What is a bunion?
300
This type of connective tissue connects bones to other bones.
What are ligaments?
400
A long bone that is still growing has this between each epiphysis and the diaphysis.
What is an epiphyseal plate, or growth plate?
400
These are the three bones that make up the coxa.
What are the ilium, ischium, and the pubis?
400
Sutures and syndemoses are associated with this type of joint.
What is a fibrous joint?
400
This is another name for joint replacement.
What is arthroplasty?
400
This bone forms the heel.
What is the calcaneus?
500
This is another name for an osteon.
What is haversian system?
500
This is the U-shaped bone that is attached to the skull by muscles and ligaments.
What is the hyoid bone?
500
These joints consist of pegs fitted into sockets and held in place by ligaments. Ex. the joint between a tooth and its socket.
What are gomphoses?
500
This is another name for osteoporosis.
What is porous bone?
500
These are the five functions of the skeletal system.
What are support, protection, movement, storage, and blood cell production?