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Bones Flashcards

1
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What skeletal framework of the body includes the skull, auditory ossicles, hyoid bones, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum?

A

Axial

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2
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What skeletal framework of the body includes appendages?

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Appendicular

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3
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What are synovial joints?

A

Freely Movable Joints

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4
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What is the correct order of the vertebral segments?

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Cervical/Thoracic/Lumbar/Sacral/Coccygeal

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5
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What is a fibrous band of connective tissue that connects bone to bone?

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Ligament

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6
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What is the acetabulum?

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Large Socket in the Pelvis

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7
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What are the three parts of the pelvis?

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Illium/Ischium/Pubis

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8
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What are phalanges?

A

Digits that contain bones

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9
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What is another term for physis?

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Growth Plate

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10
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What does rectus mean?

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Straight

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11
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What are the three muscle groups?

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Cardiac/Voluntary/Involuntary

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12
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What is the term for when a muscle becomes shorter and thicker?

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Contraction

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13
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What do levator muscles do?

A

Raise

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14
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What is a fibrous band of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone called?

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Tendon

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15
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What is another term for laxity?

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Looseness

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16
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What is the term for a protrusion of a body part through tissues that normally contain it called?

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Hernia

17
Q

What is a sphincter?

A

A muscle that forms a tight band

18
Q

What term describes the shaft of a long bone?

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Diaphysis

19
Q

What is the manubrium?

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Cranial Portion of the sternum

20
Q

What is the opening in a bone called in which blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments can pass?

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Foramen

21
Q

What are epaxial muscles?

A

Muscles located above the pelvic axis

22
Q

A muscle that bends a limb at its joint or decreases the joint angle is called what?

A

Flexor

23
Q

What system consists of bone, joints, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage?

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Skeletal

24
Q

What is the formation of bone from fibrous tissue known as?

A

Ossification

25
Q

What part of a bone is the hard, dense, strong bone that forms the outer layer?

A

Cortical

26
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What part of a bone is the lighter, less strong and is found in the ends and inner portions of long bone?

A

Cancellous

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