BONES Flashcards
What are the 5 different shapes of bones?
Long, Short, Flat, Irregular, Sesamoid Bones
What shape are long bones and what are 2 examples?
Long, Tubular in shape. 2 examples are: Humerus and Femur
What shape are short bones and what are 2 examples?
Cuboidal in shape. 2 examples are: Carpals (Hand and wrist) and tarsals (foot)
What are some examples of flat bones (2)
Bones of skull and sternum
What shape are sesamoid bones and what are the only sesamoid bones in body?
Round/oval in shape. Only ones in body are 2 in each thumb, 2 in each big toe, and the patella (2)
What are irregular bones and what is an example
Bones of various shapes, and the bones of the face are irregular
What bones are part of the axial skeletal system
Bones of the skull, vertebral column, ribs, sternum
What bones are part of the appendicular system?
Bones of the upper and lower limbs
How many cranial and facial bones does the skull contain
8 cranial and 14 facial
What cranial bones do we need to know and what facial bones do we need to know
Cranial: frontal, parietal, occipital, sphenoid temporal. Facial: maxilla, mandible
How many vertebrae in total? What is each one of them called and how many is there
7 Cervical
12 Thoracic
5 Lumbar
5 Sacral( fused as one)
4 Coccygeal (fused as one)
Definition of process
Outgrowth coming off of a bone
Definition of articular
Relating to a joint or region joint is located
Definition of Foramen
An opening or hole in bone
LUMBAR:
One special feature
Body:
Vertebral Foramen:
Transverse process:
Spinous Process:
Does it have articular process?
Special feature- largest and heaviest of them all
Body- kidney shape
Vertebral Foramen-triangular shape
Transverse process- short
Spinous process- thick, point posteriorly
Yea it does.
THORACIC:
Body:
One special feature:
Vertebral Foramen:
Transverse process:
Spinous Process:
Are costal facets only in thoracic? Y or N
Does it have articular process
Special feature: Articulate with the ribs
Heart shape
body- heart shape
Vertebral foramen- circular
transverse process- long
spinous- long and inferior pointing
Yes costal facets are only in thoracic.
Yes it does