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Marrow
Axial Skeleton
Appendicular Skeleton
Joints
100
One of the main functions of the skeletal system
What is support, protection, movement, storage, or blood cell production
100
The number of different kinds of marrow
What is 2
100
3 parts of the axial skeleton
What is the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage
100
The structures which the appendicular skeleton consists of
What is bones of the upper and lower limbs
100
Another word for a joint
What is an articulation
200
The two major types of bone
What is compact bone and cancellous/spongy bone
200
The marrow which consists of mostly fat
What is yellow marrow
200
The most prominent openings to the skull
What is the orbits
200
Another word for the shoulder
What is pectoral girdle
200
Number of different variations of synovial joints
What is 6
300
Two of the four shapes of bone
What are long bones or short bones or flat bones or irregular bones
300
The type of marrow in the medullary cavity of children
What is red marrow
300
Number of individual bones in the vertebral column
What is 26
300
The end of the ulna that fits over the end of the humerus
What is a semilunar notch
300
Pegs fitted into sockets and held in place by ligaments
What is gomphoses
400
Connects bone to bone
What is ligaments
400
Red marrow is the only site of THIS in adults
What is blood formation
400
Structures that separate the vertebral bodies
What is intervertebral disks
400
The large hole in each coxae
What is obturator foramen
400
Shock-absorbing fibrocartilage pads
What is menisci
500
The bone that replaces what was once the cartilage of the growth plate
What is the epiphyseal line
500
Where red marrow can be found in adults
What is bones in the central axis of the body
500
A depression at the superior end of the sternum
What is the jugular notch
500
Definition of the Latin prefix "appendo"
What is "to hang something on"
500
5 different types of joint movement
What is Abduction, adduction, pronation, supination, eversion, inversion, rotation, protraction, retraction, elevation, depression, excursion, opposition, reposition, or circumduction