Chapter 7 and 8: The Axial and Appendicular Skeletons

Question 1

Condyle

Answer 1

Rounded knob that articulates with another bone

Question 2

Facet

Answer 2

Smooth flat, slightly concave or convex surface

Question 3

Head

Answer 3

Prominent expanded end of the bone, maybe rounded

Question 4

Skeletal system divisions

Answer 4

Axial and appendicular

Question 5

Axial

Answer 5

Axis of the body; skull, vertebrae, sternum, and rib cage

Question 6

Appendicular

Answer 6

Appendages; pectoral and pelvic girdles, arms, and legs

Question 7

Articulations

Answer 7

Concyle, facet, head

Question 8

Extensions and projections

Answer 8

Epicondyle, lines, process, protuberance, spine, trochanter, tubercle, tuberosity

Question 9

Trochanter

Answer 9

Two large processes associated with femur

Question 10

Tubercle

Answer 10

Small rounded process

Question 11

Tuberosity

Answer 11

Rough elevated surface

Question 12

Epicondyle

Answer 12

Projection superior to a condyle

Question 13

Lines

Answer 13

Slightly raised, elongated ridge

Question 14

Process

Answer 14

Bony prominence

Question 15

Protuberance

Answer 15

Bony outgrowth

Question 16

Spine

Answer 16

Sharp, slender, or narrow process

Question 17

Depressions

Answer 17

Alveolus, fossa, fovea, sulcus

Question 18

Alveolus

Answer 18

Socket

Question 19

Fossa

Answer 19

Shallow, broad, or elongated basin

Question 20

Fovea

Answer 20

Small pit

Question 21

Sulcus

Answer 21

Groove for blood vessel, nerve, or tendon

Question 22

Passages and cavities

Answer 22

Canal, foramen, fissure, meatus, sinus

Question 23

Canal

Answer 23

Tunnel in a bone

Question 24

Foramen

Answer 24

Hole through bone

Question 25

Fissure

Answer 25

Slit through a bone

Question 26

Meatus

Answer 26

Opening into canal

Question 27

Sinus

Answer 27

Air-filled space in bone

Question 28

Skull

Answer 28

Composed of 22 bones (cranial and facial), most articulate at sutures

Question 29

Cranial

Answer 29

Direct contact with meninges and brain

Question 30

Facial

Answer 30

No contact with meninges or brain

Question 31

Sutures

Answer 31

Coronal, sagittal, squamous, lambdoid

Question 32

Cavities

Answer 32

Cranial, orbits, nasal, oral

Question 33

Sinuses

Answer 33

Frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid, maxillary

Question 34

Cranium (composed of 8 bones)

Answer 34

Frontal, parietal (2), temporal (2), occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid

Question 35

Temporal bone

Answer 35

Mastoid and styloid processes, stylomastoid and mastoid foramen

Question 36

Nose

Answer 36

Hyaline cartilage

Question 37

Occipital

Answer 37

Foramen magnum, occipital condyles, hypoglossal canal, external occipital protuberance, and nuchal line

Question 38

Facial bones

Question 39

14 facial bones

Question 40

Maxilla

Question 41

Infraorbital foremen

Question 42

Auditory ossicles

Question 43

Hyoid

Question 44

Skull (infancy and childhood)

Question 45

Fontanels

Answer 45

Soft, spaces between cranial bones

Question 45

Fontanels

Answer 45

Soft, spaces between cranial bones

Question 46

Fontanel types

Answer 46

Anterior, posterior, sphenoid, mastoid

Question 47

Vertebral column functions

Answer 47

Support, protection of spinal cord, shock absorption

Question 48

Composed of 33 vertebrae

Answer 48

7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 4 coccygeal

Question 49

Slight s-shape with four bends

Answer 49

Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and pelvic

Question 50

Intervertebral discs

Answer 50

Core of gelatinous nucleus pulposus surrounded by a fibrocartilage ring, anulus fibrosus

Question 51

Intervertebral discs (number)

Answer 51

23 discs, start between c2 and c3, end between L5 and sacrum