Chapter 5 review

Question 1

Where are most long bones found in the body?

Answer 1

Hands & feet

Question 2

What is the anatomical name for the shaft of a long bone?

Answer 2

Diaphysis

Question 3

What is the anatomical name for the ends of a long bone?

Answer 3

Epiphyses

Question 4

How does the structure of compact bone differ from the structure of spongy bone when viewed with the naked eye?

Question 5

Bones don’t begin as bones. What do they begin as?

Question 6

Osteoclasts

Question 7

Osteoblasts

Question 8

Osteocytes

Question 9

Osteogenic cells

Question 10

3 functions of the skeletal system.

Question 11

Yellow bone marrow

Question 12

Why do bone injuries heal much faster than injuries to cartilage?

Question 13

What are the steps of bone healing?

Question 14

What are the three main parts of the axial skeleton?

Question 15

Which bone has a cribriform plate and crista galli?

Question 16

Which bones are connected by the coronal suture?

Question 17

Which bones are connected by the sagittal suture?

Question 18

Which bones are connected by the lambdoid suture?

Question 19

Which bones are connected by the squamous suture?

Question 20

Which facial bones are paired?

Question 21

Which facial bones are NOT paired?

Question 22

What is the hyoid bone and why is it unique?

Question 23

What are the 5 major regions of the vertebral column?

Question 24

How do you distinguish a lumbar vertebra from a cervical vertebra?

Question 25

What is a true rib?

Question 26

What is a false rib?

Question 27

What is a floating rib?

Question 28

Which spinal curvatures are present at birth?

Question 29

When do secondary curvatures appear?

Question 30

With one exception, all skull bones are joined by sutures. What is the exception?

Question 31

What facial bone forms the chin?

Question 32

What facial bone forms the cheekbone?

Question 33

What facial bone forms the upper jaw?

Question 34

What facial bone forms the bony eyebrow ridges?

Question 35

How is the fetal skull different from the adult skull?

Question 36

How many vertebrae are there in each of the three superior regions of the vertebral column?

Question 37

What is the function of the intervertebral discs?

Question 38

What are the major components of the thorax?

Question 39

Is a floating rib a true or false rib?

Question 40

Why are floating ribs easily broken?

Question 41

What are the parts of the sternum?

Question 42

What is the single point of attachment of the shoulder girdle to the axial skeleton?

Question 43

What bones form the arm/forearm?

Question 44

What 3 bones form the hip?

Question 45

What bones form the pelvic girdle?

Question 46

What bones form the entire leg?

Question 47

What are the bones of the shoulder girdle?

Question 48

What bones articulate with the ulna?

Question 49

What are the similarities and differences of the pectoral and pelvic girdle?

Question 50

What are the functions of joints?

Question 51

What is the major difference between a fibrous joint and a cartilaginous joint?

Question 52

Where are synovial membranes found?

Question 53

What two joints of the body are ball-and-socket joints?

Question 54

What is the best example of a saddle joint?

Question 55

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