Skeletal Function
Movement is possible because muscles attach to bone with these pieces of connective tissue.
What are tendons?
On a long bone the epiphysis is on this area of the bone.
What are the ends?
This is the term for the area of cell division on bone Anatomicaly refered to as Epiphyseal disks. Commonly they are called these.
What are growth plates?
These are the name of the stich like borders or joints of the skull.
What are sutures?
Old Kings or Queens rest their crown on this suture.
What is Coronal
Hematopoiesis is the production of this from bone
This is the name of the cavity where bone marrow is stored.
What is the Medullary cavity?
These are the soft spots on a baby's skull where plates have not come together yet.
What are fontanels
This type of joint is where appendages join the axial skeleton.
What are ball and socket joints?
This type of fracture can happen to young or old people. Considered a ware and tare injury.
What is a stress/hairline fracture?
Bone is "spongy" because these pass through bone.
What are nerves and blood vessels?
This term means a hole in bone. Mental, Magnum for example.
What is a foramen?
This is the name of a bone cell
What is an osteocyte?
This is the name for your top cervical vertebrae that the skull rests on.
What is the atlas?
This condition is when bone becomes very porous and can be broken easier because it has been stripped from nutrients
What is osteoporosis?
When you are older you have more of this color of bone marrow.
What is red?
This term means outcrop of bone for muscle attachment. Mastoid, styloid, xyphoid
What is a process?
This term means cartilage hardening into bone.
What is ossification?
The top cervical vertebrae rests on this 2nd from the top vertebrae
What is the atlas?
This condition of the wrists can cause pain from typing, tennis etc.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
Resorption occurs when the body breaks down bone to remove this element from it.
What is calcium?
This bone is the only one that doesn't articulate with another bone, allows us the ability to speak.
What is the hyoid bone?
This is an area you can check on bones to identify age.
What are teeth, cartilage, xyphoid process etc.
This is the Anatomical term for joint
What is an articulation?
I am very old. I was born in this year.
What is 1985?