Skeletal System Diseases
Skeletal System Injuries/Deformities
The Skeletal System (Unplugged)
Little Known Facts
Name That Bone
100
A disease resulting in damage to the joints of the body.
What is arthritis?
100
Injury caused by stretched ligaments.
What are dislocated joints?
100
Two bones making contact with each other, providing movement and mechanical support.
What is a joint?
100
An organ that includes connective tissue, nerve tissue, muscle, and epithelial tissue?
What is a bone?
100
Feet, hands, pelvis, thigh and leg, arm and forearm, and pectoral girdles are all part of this.
What are parts of the human skeletal system?
200
The most common form of arthritis.
What is osteoarthritis?
200
Complete, Greenstick, Compound, Complicated, Impacted, and Cominuted.
What are types of bone fractures?
200
The three major functions of the skeletal system.
What are mechanical, protective, and metabolic?
200
The number of bones lost between infancy and adulthood.
What is approximately 100 (actually 94)?
200
The study of bones in the human body.
What is osteology?
300
A disease resulting in loss and/or thinning of bone tissue.
What is osteoporosis?
300
Repetitive and Traumatic Injuries.
What are the two most common causes of rotator cuff tears?
300
Soft spots on a babies head.
What are fontanels?
300
Preventable cause of spinal deformities.
What is poor posture?
300
The largest bone in the body.
What is the femur (thigh bone)?
400
A disease which results in an inward curvature of the spine, often caused by poor posture.
What is lordosis?
400
A deformity resulting in an "S"-shaped spine.
What is Scoliosis?
400
Mineral storage, blood cell production, and energy storage.
What are the metabolic functions of the skeletal system?
400
Location of the smallest bone in the human body: the stirrup bone (2.8 millimeters long).
What is the ear?
400
The mandible and the maxilla.
What two bones make up the jaw?
500
Poor sleep, weight loss, muscular aches, pain, and tenderness.
What are symptoms of arthritis?
500
Kyphosis.
What is the medical term for hunch-back?
500
The primary functions of the skull and rib cage?
What is to protect vital organs from injury?
500
A blob of hairy mashed potatoes.
What would a boneless human skeleton resemble?
500
Eight bones protect this organ.
How many bones protect the brain?