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Ch. 7 Terminology Flashcards

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1
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The skeletal system is divided into what 2 groups?

A

Axial and Appendicular

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How many total bones are in skeletal system and what groups are they in?

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206 in total. 80 in axial and 126 in appendicular

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3
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What do the depressions and opening do?

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Allow passage of soft tissues and form joints

OPENINGS

DEPRESSIONS

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What is a process?

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Projection from a structure

**Most of the time its an attachment site

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What is a fissure?

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A slit that allows a passageway of blood vessels or nerves

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What is a foramen?

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Hole for passage for blood vessels, nerves or ligaments

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7
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What is a Fossa?

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A shallow depression

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What is a sulcus?

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Groove on bone for passage of blood vessel, nerve or tendon

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What is a meatus?

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Tube-like opening

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What is a condyle?

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Rounded projection with a smooth articular surface

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What is an angle?

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A bend

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What is a ramus?

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Branch off of the body beyond the angle

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What is a Facet?

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Smooth, flat, slightly concave articular surface

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What is a Head?

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Usually rounded articular process supported on a neck, enlarged and often rounded.

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What is a neck?

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Constriction between head and body

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What is a crest?

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Prominent ridge or elongated process

17
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What is a Sinus?

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Mucous membrane line air spaces

18
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Tubercle

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Rounded projection

*Most likely a tendon or liagment was attached during life

19
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Where are the 4 sutures of the skull?

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Coronal Suture - connects frontal bone to parietals
Sigittal suture - Connected parietals
Lambdoid suture - connects occiptial bone to parietals
Squamous Suture - Connects pariteal to temporal

20
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What are the 14 facial bones?

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(2) Zygomatic bones
(2) Maxilla bones
(2) Palatine bones
(2) lacrimal bones
(2) Nasal bones
(1) Mandible
(1) vomer
(2) Nasal conchae

21
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What do the facial bones do?

A

Protect the major sensory organs located in face: eyes, nose, tounge

Also provide attachment for muscles controlling facial expressions associated with emotions and eye movements

22
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Alveolar process

A

the thick ridge of bone which contains the tooth sockets

23
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What bones make up the axial skeleton?

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Everything along center axis of body

Skull, auditory ossicles, hyoid, vertebral column, and rib cage

24
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What bones make up the appendicular skeleton?

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Everything that makes up appendages including pelvic and pectoral girdles

25
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What is an epicondyle?

A

Projection apon a condyle

26
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What is a line?

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Long narrow ridge or border / less prominent than a crest

27
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What is a spinous process?

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Sharp slender projection

28
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What is a process?

A

Prominent projection

29
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What is a Trochanter?

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  • Very large projection only found on femur
30
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What is a tubercle?

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Small rounded bump

31
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What is a tuberosity?

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Variably sized projection with a rough bumpy surface, larger than tubercle

32
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How do you tell a right from left Scapula?

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The glenoid cavity must be facing outward and the spine is posterior

33
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How do you tell a right from left Humerus?

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The head must be facing medial and the Olecranon fossa must be posterior

34
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How do you tell a right from left Ulna?

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The Trochlear notch is facing anteriorly and the radial notch is facing lateral

STYLOID PROCESS IS MEDIAL

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How

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36
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How do you tell a right from left Tibia?

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Tibial tuberosity is facing anteriorly and medial melleolus facing medial

37
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How do you tell a right from left Femur?

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Head faces medially and linea aspera is facing posteriorly

38
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How do you tell a right from left Os Coxae?

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The acetabulum faces laterally and the inferior pubic ramus faces medially

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