Bones Of The Adult Skeletal System

Question 1

What are the cranial bones?

Answer 1

Frontal bone (1), Temporal bones (2), Parietal bones (2), Sphenoid bone (1), Occipital bone (1), and Ethmoid bone (1).

Question 2

What are the facial bones?

Answer 2

Maxillae (2), Nasal bones (2), Palatine bones (2), Vomer (1), Zygomatic bones (2), Inferior nasal conchae (2), Lacrimal bones (2), Mandible (1).

Question 3

What are the auditory ossicles (6 bones)?

Answer 3

Malleus (2), Staples (2), and Incus (2).

Question 4

Where is the hyoid bone located?

Answer 4

Question 5

What are the bones in the vertebral column (26 bones)?

Answer 5

Cervical vertebrae (7), Sacrum (1), Thoracic vertebrae (12), Coccyx (1), Lumbar vertebrae (5).

Question 6

What are the bones in the thoracic cage (25 bones plus the thoracic vertebrae)?

Answer 6

Ribs (24), and Sternum (1).

Question 7

What are the bones in the Pectoral girdle (4 bones)?

Answer 7

Scapulae (2), and Clavicles (2).

Question 8

What are the bones in the upper limbs? (60 bones)

Answer 8

Humerus (2), Carpal bones (16), Radius (2), Metacarpal bones (10), Ulna (2), and Phalanges (28).

Question 9

What are the bone(s) in the pelvic girdle? (2 bones)

Answer 9

Hip bones (2)

Question 10

What are the bones of the lower limbs (60 bones)?

Answer 10

Femurs (2), Tarsal bones (14), Patellae (2), Metatarsal bones (10), Tibiae (2), Phalanges (28), and Fibulae (2).

Question 11

How many bones are in the adult skeletal system?

Answer 11

206.

Question 12

What are the bone shapes?

Answer 12

Long, Short, Flat, Irregular, Sesamoid, and Sutural.

Question 13

Gross Anatomy
Where should the epiphysis be located?

Answer 13

At the ends of the bone(s).

Question 14

What is the location of the diaphysis?

Answer 14

The middle of the bone.

Question 15

What is metaphysis?

Answer 15

It connects the epiphyses to diaphysis.

Question 16

Gross Anatomy
What is the layers (from superficial to deep)?

Answer 16

Periosteum, Compact bones, spongy bones, endosteum, and medullary cavity (bone marrow).

Question 17

What is the function of the Periosteum?

Answer 17

• Covers outer surface of living bone
  -Functions include: Isolates & protects bones, supports blood vessels & nerves, connects to other tissues, and growth and repair.

Question 18

What is the function of Endosteum?

Answer 18

-Reticular connective tissue
-Lines medullary cavity and covers spongy bone surface
-Contains osteopenia (osteoprogenitor) cells (this is important for bone growth and remodeling)

Question 19

Is bones made of vascular tissue? True or False

Answer 19

True, it is an extensive network of blood vessels.