A&P Flashcards
What are the functions of bone? List and explain.
Protection: Vital Organs
Structure: Scaffolding
Storage: Mineral
Leverage: Locomotion
What are the 2 types of bone?
Spongy and Compact
What are the 4 major bone cells? What are each of their jobs?
Osteocytes: Mature never change
Osteoblast: Building bone growing long bone
Osteoclast: Remodeling bone
OSteoprogenitor: Least mature
Spongy bone is also called _________________. What is the major function of Spongy bone? Where is spongy bone found?
cancellous
Found: Long Bone
Function: Help reduce the weight of the bone
What are the 2 categories we split joint into? List the names of joints that fall into each category
Structure
Fibrous joint
Cartilage Joints
Synovial Joint
Function
Synarthrose: immovable; axial
Amphiarthoses: Slightly moveable; axial
Diarthoses: Freely movable; Appendicular
What are the following joint connections? What skeleton are they a part of
A. Temporomandibular
B. Atlanto-occipital
C. Atlantoaxial
D. Interverbral DIsk
E. Scapulohumeral
F. Scaroiliac
G. Coxofemoral
A. Mandible to Skull
B. Skull to Atlas
C. Atlas to Axial
D. Joints between the vertebrae
E. Scapula to humorous
F. Scaral to ileum pubic bone
G. Coxofemoral femur to pelvic
What are the overall roles of the Peripheral Nervous System and the Central Nervous System? What are each composed of?
What are the 3 parts of Meninge? Describe each
What are the 4 main parts of the brain? Do any of them have subsections?
Define Neural Tracts. Where do we find them? How do they run?
What are the 2 different pathways between the brian and spinal cord? How many tracts of each are there? Describe each
How does skeletal muscle contract?
Define Summation. What are the 2 types? Describe each.
List the microanatomy of a skeletal muscle from smallest to biggest
Define Origin
Define Insertion
Define Felxor