Axial Skeleton

Question 1

What is the function of the thoracic cage

Answer 1

protects heart, lungs, point of attachment for muscles of respiration, position of the vertebral column.

Question 2

How many ribs do we have?

Answer 2

12 pairs

Question 3

What ribs are the true ribs?

Answer 3

rib pairs 1-7W

Question 4

What is the name of rib pairs 1-7?

Answer 4

Vertebrosternal

Question 5

What is the name of the pair of ribs 8-12?

Answer 5

false ribs, or vertebrochondral

Question 6

What are rib pairs 11-12 called?

Answer 6

vertebral ribs, no connection with sternum, floating ribs

Question 7

What is the sternum?

Answer 7

flat bone with 3 fused components, Manubrium, body, and xiphod process

Question 8

What is the manubrium?

Answer 8

articulates with rib pair 1, sternal angle, where manubrium and body meet (top of the sternum)

Question 9

Where is the xiphoid process?

Answer 9

bottom of the sternum

Question 10

Name the three vertebral columns

Answer 10

Cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions

Question 11

How many vertebra in the cervical

Answer 11

7,

Question 12

How many vertebra in the thoracic

Answer 12

12

Question 13

How many lumbar vertebra are there?

Answer 13

5

Question 14

Exaggerated thoracic curvature, hunchback

Answer 14

kyphosis

Question 15

Exaggerated lumbar curvature, swayback

Answer 15

lordosis

Question 16

lateral curvature

Answer 16

scoliosis

Question 17

What is the name for C1

Answer 17

atlas, supports the head, nodding motion

Question 18

What is the name for C2

Answer 18

axis, has dens, has a piece sticking out on top

Question 19

Describe the cervical vertebra

Answer 19

small body, large vertebral foramen

Question 20

Describe the thoracic vertebra

Answer 20

medium size body, and vertebral foramen, (looks like a snuffleupagus)

Question 21

Describe the lumbar vertebra

Answer 21

large body, small vertebral foramen, big body, ends stick out more

Question 22

What are the three parts of the skull?

Answer 22

neurocranium (cranial bones), viscerocranium (facial bones), sutures

Question 23

How many bones in the neurocranium (cranial)

Answer 23

8, (1 frontal, 2 parietal, 2 temporal, 1 occipital, 1 spenoid, and 1 ethmoid

Question 24

How many bones in the viserocranum (facial)

Answer 24

14 bones ( 2 lacrimal, 2 nasal, 2 maxillae, 2 zygomatic, 2 palatine, 1 inferior nasal conchae, 1 mandible, 1 vomer

Question 25

What are sutures?

Answer 25

immoveable joints of the skull, there are 4 sutures, sagittal, lambdoid, squamous, squamous and coronal

Question 26

what suture is located between the parietal and frontal bones?

Answer 26

coronal suture

Question 27

what suture is between temporal and parietal bones?

Answer 27

squamous suture

Question 28

what suture is between the occipital and parietal bones?

Answer 28

lambdoid suture

Question 29

what suture is between the parietal bone?

Answer 29

sagitall suture