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Axial Skeleton 1 Flashcards

1
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How many bones form the typical adult skeleton?

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206

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2
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What are the subdivisions of the skeleton?

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The axial skeleton & appendicular skeleton

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How many bones form the typical adult appendicular skeleton?

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126 bones

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How many bones form the typical adult axial skeleton?

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80

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5
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What bones form the axial skeleton?

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The skull, hyoid, vertebral column, sternum, & ribs

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What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult skull?

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28

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What is the name given to the adult skull minus the mandible?

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The cranium

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What are the names given to the top of the adult skull?

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The calvaria or calva

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What are the categories of bone forming the typical adult skull?

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The neurocranium, the facial skeleton (splanchnocranium or visceral cranium) and the auditory ossicles

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What is the neurocranium?

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The bones that support or protect the brain

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How many bones form the typical adult neurocranium?

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8

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What bones form the neurocranium of the typical adult skull?

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Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, & ethmoid

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How many bones form the facial skeleton (splanchnocranium or visceral skeleton?

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14 bones

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What is the facial skeleton (splancocranium or visceral cranium)?

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The bones that support the face or front of the head

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What bones form the facial skeleton?

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Mandible, vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine, & zygomatic

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16
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By strict definition, what is the splanchnocranium?

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The bones that support the face minus the mandible

17
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What bones form the splanchnocranium?

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Vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine, & zygomatic

18
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How many bones comprise the typical adult auditory ossicles?

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6 bones

19
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What bones comprise the typical adult auditory ossicles?

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The stapes, incus, & malleus

20
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How many bones are present in the adult hyoid?

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1 bone

21
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What bones comprise the typical adult vertebral column or spinal column?

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Cervical, thoracic, lumbar vertebrae, and the sacrum & coccyx

22
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What is the number of bones comprising each region of the typical adult spinal column or vertebral column?

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7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 1 sacrum, 1 coccyx

23
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What is the name given to the presacral region of the typical adult vertebral column or spinal column?

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The spine

24
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What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult spine?

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24 bones

25
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What is the definition of “spine” as it pertains to the vertebral column?

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The presacral region of the vertebral column or spinal column

26
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How many bones are present in the typical adult sacrum?

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1 bone

27
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What regions are present along the typical adult sternum?

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The manubrium sterni, corpus sterni, and the xiphoid process

28
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How many ribs are present in the typical adult skeleton?

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12 pair or 24 total ribs

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