Axial Skeleton Review

Question 1

What is the axial skeleton

Answer 1

Bones along the median plane

Question 2

What does the axial skeleton follow?

Answer 2

Follows the central axis of the body

Question 3

What bones belong to the axial skeleton?

Answer 3

skul, hyoid bones or hyoid apparatus, vertebral column, ribs, sternum

Question 4

What are the bones surrounding the brain are called?

Answer 4

cranium

Question 5

Skull bones are joined by what structure?

Answer 5

sutures

Question 6

Sutures are a type of

Answer 6

immovable joint

Question 7

Hyoid Bones/apparatus is a series of bones connected by what?

Answer 7

cartilage

Question 8

what does the hyoid bones/apparatus stabilize?

Answer 8

tongue/larynx (suspend them from skull)

Question 9

What are the names of the regions of vertebral column

Answer 9

Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, caudal

Question 10

How do we name the regions of the vertebral column?

Answer 10

named by letter then number
each region numbered 1 to whatever it has
start cranially with numbering

Question 11

Vertebral Formula of the Dog/Cat?

Answer 11

C7 T13 L7 S3 Cd20

Question 12

How does the ribs meet the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 12

dorsally at the rib tubercle and head

Question 13

Where does the vertebral aspect of the rib meet?

Answer 13

cartilage (costal cartilage)

Question 14

Sternal ribs are located where

Answer 14

cranial portion, joins sternum

Question 15

Asternal ribs are located where

Answer 15

joins sternal ribs via cartilage

Question 16

Floating ribs are located where

Answer 16

most caudal, not attached

Question 17

the sternum is also called what

Answer 17

floor of thoracic cavity

Question 18

What is the sternum made up of

Answer 18

sternebrae (8)

Question 19

1st sternabra is called?

Answer 19

manubrium (cranial)

Question 20

last sternabra is called?

Answer 20

xiphoid (caudal)