Bones Flashcards
What skeletal framework of the body includes the skull, auditory ossicles, hyoid bones, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum?
Axial
What skeletal framework of the body includes appendages?
Appendicular
What are synovial joints?
Freely Movable Joints
What is the correct order of the vertebral segments?
Cervical/Thoracic/Lumbar/Sacral/Coccygeal
What is a fibrous band of connective tissue that connects bone to bone?
Ligament
What is the acetabulum?
Large Socket in the Pelvis
What are the three parts of the pelvis?
Illium/Ischium/Pubis
What are phalanges?
Digits that contain bones
What is another term for physis?
Growth Plate
What does rectus mean?
Straight
What are the three muscle groups?
Cardiac/Voluntary/Involuntary
What is the term for when a muscle becomes shorter and thicker?
Contraction
What do levator muscles do?
Raise
What is a fibrous band of connective tissue that connects muscle to bone called?
Tendon
What is another term for laxity?
Looseness
What is the term for a protrusion of a body part through tissues that normally contain it called?
Hernia
What is a sphincter?
A muscle that forms a tight band
What term describes the shaft of a long bone?
Diaphysis
What is the manubrium?
Cranial Portion of the sternum
What is the opening in a bone called in which blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments can pass?
Foramen
What are epaxial muscles?
Muscles located above the pelvic axis
A muscle that bends a limb at its joint or decreases the joint angle is called what?
Flexor
What system consists of bone, joints, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage?
Skeletal
What is the formation of bone from fibrous tissue known as?
Ossification
What part of a bone is the hard, dense, strong bone that forms the outer layer?
Cortical
What part of a bone is the lighter, less strong and is found in the ends and inner portions of long bone?
Cancellous
