Axial and Appendicular Skeleton

Question 1

Is the pelvic girdle a part of the axial skeleton?

Answer 1

NO

Question 2

What are the divisions of the axial skeleton?

Answer 2

Skull
Hyoid Bone
Ear ossicles
Thoracic cage
Vertebral column

Question 3

What bone feature of the skull articulates with the first cervical vertebrae?

Answer 3

occipital condyles

Question 4

Where does the pituitary gland sit?

Answer 4

stella turcica

Question 5

roof of nasal cavity

Answer 5

cribriform plate

Question 6

site of attachment for dura mater

Answer 6

crista galli

Question 7

forms superior portion of nasal septum

Answer 7

perpendicular plate

Question 8

form part of lateral walls of nasal cavity

Answer 8

superior and middle nasal conchae

Question 9

what forms the hard palate?

Answer 9

palatine bone and maxilla

Question 10

is the inferior nasal conchae a part of the ethmoid bone or a facial bone?

Answer 10

it is a facial bone

Question 11

Attachment for tongue & some neck muscles

doesn’t articulate with any other bone

Answer 11

hyoid bone

Question 12

The ear ossicles, which embryonic pharyngeal arches do these form from?

Answer 12

1 and 2

Question 13

superior projection of the axis; allows head to pivot

Answer 13

ondontoid process; the dens

Question 14

convex posteriorly

Answer 14

sacral and thoracic

Question 15

concave posteriorly

Answer 15

lumbar and cervical

Question 16

posteriorly exaggerated curvature (usually thoracic); “humpback”

Answer 16

kyphosis

Question 17

exaggerated lumbar curvature; “swayback”, sometimes associated with pregnancy

Answer 17

Lordosis

Question 18

• abnormal lateral curve of any portion of spine (most often thoracic)

Answer 18

scoliosis

Question 19

What is an example of a sesamoid bone?

Answer 19

patella (bone within a tendon or muscle)

Question 20

Do babies have yellow bone marrow?

Answer 20

nope

Question 21

Where can you find red bone marrow?

Answer 21

Long bones of babies and in all spongy bone

In adults, epiphyses and dipole and some large irregular bones like the coxal bones

Question 22

What do osteoclasts produce to break down the inorganic portion of bone?

Answer 22

hydrochloric acid

Question 23

in adults; deficiency of vitamin D or Ca resulting in bone demineralization
Bones soften and weaken

Answer 23

osteomalacia

Question 24

osteomalacia in children?

Answer 24

rickets