Chapter 5 after page 158 Flashcards
Appendicular skeleton is composed of
126 bones of the limbs and the pectoral (shoulder) and pelvic girdles
Shoulder grindle or pectrol girdle consists of what two bones?
Clavicle and a scapula
Clavicle
Doubly curved bone
helps to form the shoulder joint
Acts as a brace to hold the arm away from the top of the thorax
Prevents shoulder dislocation
Scapular or shoulder blades
Triangular
“Wings”
What are the 2 processes of scapula
Acromion- Its the enlarged end of the spine of the scapula.
Coracoid- Beaklike
Where does the acromion connect with the clavicle?
Acromioclavicular Joint
Suprascapular notch
Medial to the coracoid process
Serves as a nerve passageway
Scapula
Not directly attached to the axial skeleton
Loosely held in place by trunk muscles
Has 3 borders: Superior, Medial (Vertebral) and Lateral (axillary).
Has 3 angles: Superior, Inferior and Lateral
Gleniod Cavity
A shallow socket that receives the head of the arm bone, is in the lateral angle
How many separate bones for the skeletal framework of the each upper limb? Form the foundation for what?
30.
Arm, forearm and hand
The arm is formed by a single bone called?
Humerus
The sites of muscles attachments
greater and lesser tubercles
Distal to the tubercles is
surgical neck
Why is it named surgical neck?
because it is the most frequent fractured part of the humerus
In the midpoint of the shaft is a roughened area called
Deltoid tuberosity
What runs obliquely down the posterior aspect of the shaft?
Radial groove, marks the course of the radial nerve, an important nerve of the upper limb
Distal to humerus is:
Lateral:
medial trochlea, looks like a spoon
capitulum
Above trochlea anterior is a depression:
On the posterior:
Coronoid fossa
Olecranon fossa
Coronoid fussa and Olecranon fussa and flanked by
medial and lateral epicondyles.
What forms the skeleton of the forearm
the radius and ulna
Radius and ulna are connected along their entire length by?
At their distal end?
interosseous membrane
Styloid process
Below the head is
Radial tuberosity, where the tendon of the biceps muscle attaches
when the upper limb is in the anatomical position the ulna is the
Medial bone
Osteroporosis
Bone thinning disease that afflicts half of women over 65 and some 20% of men over the age of 70.
Makes bones so fragile
Bones of spine and neck of the femur are susceptible.