Chr. 7 - Axial Skeleton Flashcards
[7.1] What are the divisions of the skeleton?
Axial and appendicular.
[7.1] What is the appendicular skeleton divided into?
Upper limbs, lower limbs, and two girdles.
[7.2] What are the different types of bones?
Long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones, sesamoid bones, sutural bones
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[7.2] Describe long bones.
Bones with greater length than width, consisting of variable extremities.
[7.2] Describe short bones.
Cube-shaped bones consisting of mostly spongy bone, with a thin outer layer of compact bone.
[7.2] Describe flat bones.
Thin bones composed of parallel plates of compact bone enclosing spongy bone.
[7.2] Describe irregular bones.
Bones with complex shapes not grouped in any of the other categories, vary in amounts of compact vs spongy bone.
[7.2] Describe sesamoid bones.
Bones developed in certain tendons with considerable friction. Functionally protect tendons and improve mechanical advantage of tendon.
[7.2] Describe sutural bones.
Small bones located in joints between certain cranial bones.
[7.3] What are surface markings?
Structural features of bones adapted for specific functions.
[7.3] What are the two major types of surface markings?
- Depressions and openings.
- Processes
[7.3] What are depressions and openings, and what are the different types?
Sites allowing passage of soft tissue or formation of joints. Include fissures, foramen, fossae, sulci, and meatus.
[7.3] What is a fissure?
Narrow slit running along a bone between adjacent parts through which blood vessels and nerves pass.
[7.3] What is a foramen?
Opening in a bone through which blood vessels, nerves, or ligaments pass.
[7.3] What is a fossa?
A shallow depression of the bone.
[7.3] What is a sulcus?
Shallow furrow along bone surface accomadating blood vessel, neve, or tendon.
[7.3] What is a meatus?
Tube-like opening in a bone.
[7.3] Describe a process and list the different categories of processes.
Projections or outgrowths of bone forming joints or attachment sites for connective tissues.
Include:
- Condyles
- Facets
- Heads
- Crests
- Epicondyles
- Lines
- Spinous processes
- Trochanters
- Tubercles
- Tuberosities.
[7.3] What is a condyle?
Large round protuberance with smooth articular surface at the end.
[7.3] What is a facet?
Smooth, flat, concave or convex articular surface.
[7.3] What is a head in relation to bones?
Rounded articular projection supported on the neck of a bone.
[7.3] What is a crest?
Prominent ride or elongated projection.
[7.3] What is a epicondyle?
Roughened projection extending from a condyle.
[7.3] What is a line in regards to bones.
Long, narrow, shallow ridge.
[7.3] What is a spinous process?
Sharp, slender projection.
[7.3] What is a trochanter?
Very large projection.
[7.3] What is a tubercle?
Variably sized rounded projection.
[7.3] What is a tuberosity?
Variably sized rounded projection with a roughened surface.
[7.4] Define the skull.
A bony framework consisting of 22 bones resting on the vertebral column.
[7.4] What are the two categories of skull bones, and describe them.
- Cranial bones, which enclose and protect the brain.
- Facial bones, forming the facial structure and providing support for GI/respiratory systems.
[7.4] What are the functions of the skull?
Protection, stabilization of connective/nervous tissue, and provide attachment for tendons
[7.4] What are the different bones of the cranium?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, and ethmoid.
[7.4] What are the different facial bones?
Nasal, maxillae, zygomatic, mandible, lacrimal, palatine, inferior nasal conchae, and the vomer.
[7.5] Describe the frontal bone.
Most anterior cranial bone, forms the forehead, roof of orbits, and anterior cranial floor.
[7.5] Describe the parietal bones.
Two bones adjacent to each other, forming the greater of the superior and lateral sides of the cranial cavity.
[7.5] Describe the temporal bones.
Form the inferior portions of the lateral sides of the cranium and lateral portions of the cranial floor.