Ch 7: Skeletal Growth Anatomy Flashcards
Skeletal systems
- protect organ
- mineral storage
Energy storage
- bones
- cartilage
- ligaments
Body
Main part
Head
Enlarge end
Neck
Constrictions between head and body
Margin/ border
Edge
Angle
Bend (mandible)
Ramus
Branch off the body
Condyte
Smooth rounded artic surface
Facet
Small flattens artic surface
Process
Prominent projection
Tubercle
Small rounded bump
Tuberosity
Knob
Trochanter
Tuberosistieson proximal femur
Epicondyle
Near or above condyle
Fossa
General term
Notch
Depression in bone margin
Fovea
Little pit
Groove/ sulus
Deeper, narrow depression
Line/ linea
Low ridge
Crest/ crista
Prominent ridge
Spine
Very high ridge
Foramen
Hole
Canal/ meatus
Tunnel
Fissure
Cleft
Sinus/ labyrinth
Cavity
Axial Skeleton
- skull
- mandible
- hyoid bone
- vertebral column
- sacrum
- coccyx
- bony thorax (12 ribs)
- sternum
Appendicular skeleton
- pectoral girdle (clavicle and scapula)
- humorus
- radius and ulnar
- carpal, metacarpals, and phalangeal bones
- pelvic girdle (coxa, coxal bone)
- femur and patella
- tibia and fibula
- tarsal, metatarsal, and phalangeal bone
How many bones are in tarsals, metatarsals, and phalangeals
Tarsals: 7 bones
Metatarsals: 5 bones
Phalangeals: 14 bones
12 segments in the 2-5 fingers
2 segments on the thumb
14 bones total
5 supersenses
- Smell (olfaction)
- Vision
- Taste
- Hearing
- Balance
Superior view of skull
- frontal bone
- parietal bone
- Sagittarius suture
- coronal suture
Coronal suture
Between frontal and parietal bones
Sagittal suture
Between 2 parietal bones
Which bone forms the squamous suture
Parietal bone
Which landmark can’t distinguish the lower brainstem and spinal cord
Foreman magnum 
Lambdoid suture
Between parietal bones and occipital
What is the purpose of nuchal lines?
Used for attaching to muscles
What is TMJ
-temporamandibular joint
-(mandibular fossa from the mandible and mandibular condyle from temporal bone)
What is a part of the socket?
Zygomatic, maxilla, sphenoid, and frontal bone
What bones are part of the nasal cavity/ septum?
Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
-vomber bone
-Septal cartilage 
Ethmoid bone
Crista galli, olfactory foramina, & cribriform plate
Sphenoid bone
Lesser and greater wing
Optic canal
Allows nerve to go into the cranium
Foramen ovale
Oval hole
Foramen rotundum
Round hole
Foramen spinosm
Spiny hole
Jugular foramen
Allows the jugular vein to pass through
Carotid canal
Allows carotid arteries to pass through
Hard palate
Palatine process and maxillary bone and horizontal plate of the palatine bone
Occipital condyle
C1 or atlas
What is the zygomatic arch?
The temporal process of the zygomatic bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone