Skeleton Basics
What are the two major divisions of the human skeleton?
What are the axial and appendicular skeletons?
What is the main function of the cranium?
What is protecting the brain?
How many ribs are connected to the vertebrae?
What is 12?
What is another name for the scapula?
What is the shoulder blade?
What are the hip bones called?
What are coxal bones?
What is the kneecap?
What is the patella?
How many individual vertebrae bones do we have at birth?
What is 33?
What does lateral mean?
What is side?
$100: How many bones are in the adult human body?
What is 206?
Which facial bone forms the upper jaw?
What is the maxilla?
What are ribs called when they do not attach to the sternum?
What are floating ribs?
What bone forms the upper arm?
What is the humerus?
What is the top of the ilium called?
What is the iliac crest?
Which bone is the strongest and longest bone in the body?
What is the femur?
How many bones are in the appendicular skeleton?
What is 126 bones?
What does anterior mean?
What is the front?
Which division contains the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage?
What is the axial skeleton?
What is the only movable bone of the skull?
What is the mandible?
What two major organs does the rib cage protect?
What are the heart and lungs?
What is another name for the clavicle?
What is the collarbone?
How many coxal bones are in the pelvic girdle?
What is 2?
What is the thigh bone?
What is the femur?
How many vertebrae bones do we have in adulthood?
What is 26?
What is pedal?
What is your foot?
Name the three parts of the axial skeleton.
What are the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage/bony thorax?
What are fontanelles, and what is their purpose?
What are Fibrous membranes connecting the cranial bones that allow the brain to grow?
Name the three parts of the rib cage/bony thorax.
What are ribs, sternum, and thoracic vertebrae?
Which bones form the wrist?
What are the carpals?
What is the most inferior part of the coxal bone?
What is the ischium?
What two bones form the lower leg?
What are the tibia and fibula?
How many bones are in the entire body?
What is 206?
What are your checks called?
What is buccal?
Which division contains the bones of the arms, legs, shoulders, and pelvis?
What is the appendicular skeleton?
What immovable joints connect the bones of the cranium?
What are sutures?
What are ribs called when they connect directly to the sternum?
What are true ribs?
How many bones make up the pectoral girdle, and what are they?
What are 4 bones: 2 clavicles and 2 scapulas.
What is the largest part of the coxal bone?
What is the ilium?
Which lower-leg bone is lateral to the tibia and helps stabilize the ankle?
What is the fibula?
How many bones are in the axial skeleton?
What is 80 bones?
What is the anterior part of the elbow called?
What is Antecubital?
Sort these into axial or appendicular: skull, pelvis, ribs, humerus, vertebral column, femur.
What is Axial: skull, ribs, vertebral column. Appendicular: pelvis, humerus, femur?
What opening in the occipital bone is where the spinal cord joins the brain?
What is the foramen magnum?
Name the three parts of the sternum.
What are the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process?
What two bones form the forearm?
What are the radius and ulna?
What is the location where the two pubic bones meet called?
What is the pubic symphysis?
Match the foot bones: tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges.
What are Tarsals = ankle; metatarsals = sole/instep; phalanges = toes.
How many facial bones and cranium bones are there together?
What is 22?
What is axillary?
What are armpits?
Name the three major components listed for the appendicular skeleton.
What are the pectoral girdle, limbs/appendages, and pelvic girdle?
Name the cranial bones and quantities listed in the notes.
What is 1 frontal, 2 parietal, 1 occipital, 2 temporal, 1 sphenoid, and 1 ethmoid?
What are ribs called when they attach to the sternum by a common cartilage?
What are false ribs?
Match the bones to their locations: carpals, metacarpals, phalanges.
What are Carpals = wrist; metacarpals = palm; phalanges = fingers.
What is the anterior part of the coxal bone?
What is the pubis?
Which lower-leg bone is medial to the fibula and bears the weight of the femur?
What is the tibia?
How many bones are in the vertebrae at birth + facial+ cranium?
What is 55?
What is the posterior knee called?
What is popliteal?
Explain the major difference between the axial and appendicular skeletons and give three examples from each.
What is Axial: skull, vertebral column, rib cage. Appendicular: shoulder/pectoral girdle, arms/legs, pelvic girdle.
Identify the three vertebral regions and their numbers.
What is Cervical C1–C7, Thoracic T1–T12, Lumbar L1–L5?
Describe the xiphoid process using two facts from your notes.
What is, It is the inferior and smallest portion of the sternum and is an attachment site for the diaphragm.
Describe the clavicle using three characteristics from the notes.
What is the collarbone, is slender and S-shaped, and stabilizes the shoulder but is structurally weak and breaks easily?
Give three differences between the male and female pelvis.
What is Male: not as wide/broad, funnel-shaped pelvic cavity, heavier/larger bones, narrower pubic arch. Female: wider pelvis/broader hips, shallow pelvic cavity, lighter/thinner bones, wider pubic arch.
Starting at the thigh and moving down to the toes, name the major bones/groups of bones of the lower limb.
What is Femur → patella → tibia & fibula → tarsals → metatarsals → phalanges?
How many bones are in the Appendicular Skeleton + Facial+ Cranium?
What is 148?
What is the point of the shoulders called?
What is acromial?