Anatomy And Physiology

Question 1

How many bones are there in the body?

Answer 1

206

Question 2

How many bones are in the axial skeleton?

Answer 2

80

Question 3

How many bones in the skull and what are their individual components?

Answer 3

22 in total. 8 cranial and 14 facial.

Question 4

How many bones in the thorax?

Answer 4

1 sternal, 24 ribs.

Question 5

How many bones in the hyoid?

Answer 5

1

Question 6

What is the hyoid?

Answer 6

A bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

Question 7

How many bones in the auditory ossicles?

Answer 7

26

Question 8

How many bones in the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 8

126

Question 9

Name the bones in the pectoral girdles? Also how many.

Answer 9

2 clavicle. 2 scapula.

Question 10

Name the bones of the upper limbs.

Answer 10

Humarus, ulna, radius, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges.

Question 11

How many carpal bones are there?

Answer 11

16

Question 12

How many metacarpals are there?

Answer 12

10

Question 13

How many bones in the upper phalanges?

Answer 13

28

Question 14

How many bones in the pelvic girdle?

Answer 14

2

Question 15

Name the lower limb bones.

Answer 15

Femur. Patella. Fibula. Tibia. Tarsals. Metatarsals. Phalanges.

Question 16

How many bones in the tarsals?

Answer 16

14

Question 17

How many bones in the metatarsals?

Answer 17

10

Question 18

How many bones in the lower phalanges?

Answer 18

28

Question 19

What are the types of muscle tissue?

Answer 19

Skeletal, smooth and cardiac.

Question 20

Describe skeletal muscle.

Answer 20

Attaches to bones or skin. Single, long cylindrical cells. Striated, multinucleated cells. Under voluntary control.

Question 21

Describe smooth muscle.

Answer 21

Found in walls of hollow visceral organs and blood vessels. Single, narrow, rod-shaped cells. Non-striated, uninucleated cells. Involuntary control.

Question 22

Describe cardiac muscle.

Answer 22

Located in the walls of the heart. Branching chains of cells. Striated, uninucleated cells. Involuntary control.

Question 23

What are the functions of the muscular system?

Answer 23

Maintain posture. Produce movement. Stabilise joints. Protection. Generate heat.

Question 24

What is epimysium?

Answer 24

Connective tissue wrapped around the entire muscle.

Question 25

What is perimysium?

Answer 25

Connective tissue surrounding bundles of muscle fibers know as fascicles.

Question 26

What is endomysium?

Answer 26

Connective tissue wrapped around each individual muscle cell?