Bones

Question 1

How many bones make up the adult skeleton?

Answer 1

206 total, 80 are axial and 126 are appendicular

Question 2

The skull, vertebral column, hyoid bone, and thoracic cage are apart of which part of the skeleton?

Answer 2

Axial skeleton

Question 3

The pectoral girdle, upper limbs, pelvic girdle, and lower limbs are apart of which part of the skeleton?

Answer 3

Appendicular skeleton

Question 4

The smallest bones in the body which are malleus, incus, and stapes are located in?

Answer 4

The middle ear

Question 5

Which bone is located in the neck between the lower jaw and the larynx?

Answer 5

Hyoid bone

Question 6

Which bone does not articulate with any other bones but is fixed in position by muscles and ligaments?

Answer 6

Hyoid bone

Question 7

Which bone supports the tounge and is an attachment for certain muscles that help move the tounge during swallowing?

Answer 7

Hyoid bone

Question 8

What is separated by cartilaganous intervertebral discs and acts as a cushion?

Answer 8

Vertebral column

Question 9

What specific part of the cervical vertebrae supports the head?

Answer 9

Atlas

Question 10

What specific part of the cervical vertebrae allows the head to pivot around dens?

Answer 10

Axis

Question 11

As you move down the vertebral column, the vertebral bodies ____________ in size.

Answer 11

Increase

Question 12

Which bone? Smaller bodies and supports head

Answer 12

Cervical vertebrae

Question 13

Which bone? Attached to ribs

Answer 13

Thoracic vertebrae

Question 14

Which bone? Larger bodies and supports trunk weight

Answer 14

Lumbar vertebrae

Question 15

Which bone? 5 fused segments

Answer 15

Sacrum

Question 16

Which bone? aka the tailbone and has 4 fused segments

Answer 16

Coccyx

Question 17

The thoracic cage includes what 4 things?

Answer 17

Ribs, thoracic vertebrae, sternum, and costal cartilage

Question 18

Which bone? Supports pectoral(shoulder) girdle and upper limbs

Answer 18

Thoracic cage

Question 19

Humans have ___ pairs of ribs?

Answer 19

12

Question 20

Which type of ribs are directly connected to the sternum by costal cartilage?

Answer 20

True ribs(7)

Question 21

Which type of ribs has cartilage that doesn’t reach the sternum directly?

Answer 21

False ribs(5), but 2 pairs are floating ribs

Question 22

Which bone? aka the breastbone and is located along the midline of thoracic cage

Answer 22

Sternum

Question 23

Which bone? aka shoulder girdle, composed of the clavicle and scapula, and supports upper limbs

Answer 23

Pectoral girdle

Question 24

What 3 bones make up the hand?

Answer 24

Carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges

Question 25

What 3 bones form the framework of the arm?

Answer 25

Humerus, radius, and ulna

Question 26

Which bone? Forms the pelvis with sacrum and coccyx, composed of 2 coxal(hip) bones, supports trunk of body, provides attachment for lower limbs

Answer 26

Pelvic girdle

Question 27

Coxal bone has 3 fused bones. What are they?

Answer 27

Ilium, Ischium, and Pubis

Question 28

Is this a female or male pelvis? iliac bones flared more laterally, broader hips, pubic arch more rounded, lighter bones

Answer 28

Female pelvis

Question 29

Is this a female or male pelvis? iliac bones flared more inward, narrower hips, pubic arch less rounded, heavier bones

Answer 29

Male pelvis

Question 30

What 3 bones make up the foot?

Answer 30

Tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges

Question 31

What 4 bones form the framework of the leg?

Answer 31

Femur, patella, tibia, and fibula

Question 32

What is the longest bone in the body?

Answer 32

Femur

Question 33

Condition with the weakening of the bone that occurs with aging?

Answer 33

Osteoporosis

Question 34

Condition with abnormal curvature of the spine?

Answer 34

Scoliosis

Question 35

Term for bone formation

Answer 35

Ossification

Question 36

Provide for longitudinal growth ; increase in length

Answer 36

Epiphyseal plates

Question 37

Increase in diameter

Answer 37

Appositional growth

Question 38

Name for bone building cells

Answer 38

Osteoblasts

Question 39

Name for bone destroying cells

Answer 39

Osteoclasts

Question 40

What is ossification?

Answer 40

The formation of bone from cartilage

Question 41

Soft spot spaces between bones of the skull in an infant

Answer 41

Fontanels

Question 42

What bone part?