Chapter 5 Bones - numbers

Question 1

What is the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 1

All bones associated with the limbs

Question 2

How many long bones are in the superior limb?

Answer 2

22 long bones

Question 3

How many short bones are in the superior limb?

Answer 3

8 short bones (carpus)

Question 4

What is in the axial skeleton?

Answer 4

head, vertebral column, ribs and sternum

Question 5

How many bones are in the head?
cranial bones?
facial bones?
auditory ossicles?
hyoid bone?

Answer 5

29 bones total
8 cranial bones
14 facial bones
6 auditory ossicles
1 hyoid bone

Question 6

How many bones are in the vertebral column?

Answer 6

33 vertebrae, 26 bones of the vertebral column

Question 7

How many cervical bones are there? (vertebrae)

Answer 7

7

Question 8

How many thoracic bones are there? (Vertebrae)

Answer 8

12

Question 9

How many lumbar bones are there? (vertebrae)

Answer 9

5

Question 10

How many sacral bones are there? (vertebrae)

Answer 10

5, but 1 bone - bony sacrum

Question 11

How many coccygeal bones are there? (vertebrae)

Answer 11

4, but 1 bone - coccyx

Question 12

How many ribs are there?

Answer 12

12 pairs that make contact with 1 sternum

Question 13

What bones are in the pectoral girdle

Answer 13

5 bones, sternum, 2 clavicles, 2 scapula

Question 14

What bones are in the pelvic girdle

Answer 14

3 bones, right and left os coxa, bony sacrum