What is it?
Mandible location
What is the lower jaw.
Function of skeletal system where bones surround vital organs
What is protection?
Freely movable joint; including ball and socket and hinge joints
What are diarthrosis or synoivial?
Infant bone has more cartilage than adult bone
What is true?
Areas where cranial bones have joined together
What are sutures?
The largest/strongest bone?
What is the femur?
Yellow marrow mainly stores this
What are fats?
the shoulder and hip joints are examples of what type of joints?
What is ball and socket joint or diarthrosis joints?
Bones store most of the calcium supply of body
What is true?
Areas where two or more bones have joined together
What are joints?
Found inside bone and produces blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
Soft spots on an infant skull?
What are fontanels?
What is the name of the joint that allows extension of elbow and knee?
What is a hinge joint? (diarthtrosis)
The fibula is the bone of the upper arm
What is false?
side to side or lateral curvature of spine
What is scoliosis?
Connects bone to bone
What are ligaments?
Inflammation of bone usually caused by a pathogenic organism
What is osteomyelitis?
What is a slightly movable joint like the ribs and vertebrae?
What is the amphiarthrosis joints?
The maxilla is the lower jawbone
What is false?
Type of fracture where bone fragments splinter into more than two pieces
What is comminuted?
Also known as tailbone
What is the coccyx?
Inflammation of joint, over 100 different forms, most crippling disease in US
What is Arthritis?
What is an example of synarthrosis joints?
What are sutures of skull?
The long shaft of the bone is the diaphysis
What is true
Openings in bones that allow nerves and blood vessels to enter and leave the bone
What is foramina?