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Exam 2 Quiz Questions Flashcards

1
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What bones belong to the axial skeleton?

A

Skull, vertebral column and thoracic cage

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2
Q

What is the one unpaired facial bone?

A

Mandible

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3
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What pair of bones meet at the sagittal suture?

A

Parietal bones

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4
Q

What hole in the occipital bone does the spinal cord travel?

A

Foremen magnum

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5
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When someone has a pain behind their ear lobe and diagnosed with mastoiditis what bone is affected?

A

Temporal bone

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6
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What is the only moveable bone in the adult skull?

A

Mandible

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7
Q

What bone doesn’t articulate with any other bones?

A

Hyoid bone

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8
Q

What are the soft spots in the skull of an infant called?

A

Fontanels

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9
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What region is vertebrae fused in adults?

A

Sacral vertebrae

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10
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What does the first cervical vertebrae or Altas lack?

A

Vertebral body or spinous process

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11
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What’s the function of the foramen magnum?

A

Goes through the spinal cord

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12
Q

Where is the alveoli found?

A

Above and below teeth

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13
Q

What’s the cranial bone inside the nasal bone?

A

Ethmoid bone

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14
Q

What passes through the mental foramen?

A

Nerves

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15
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What articulates with the occipital condyle?

A

Atlas

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16
Q

What too bones articulate with the true rib?

A

Sternum and vertebrae

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17
Q

What bone articulates with the false ribs?

A

Vertebrae

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18
Q

What bones articulate with the floating ribs?

A

Vertebrae

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19
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What bone articulate In the rib cage directly and indirectly?

A

Directly- true ribs
Indirectly- false ribs

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20
Q

What’s the function of the atlas?

A

Holds the head up

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21
Q

What’s the function of the axis?

A

Allows for head movement

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22
Q

What’s only found in the cervical vertebrae?

A

Transverse process

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23
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If there is a break in the shaft of the bone what is affected?

A

The diaphysis

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24
Q

Bones are constantly undergoing resorption. What cells do this?

A

Osteoclasts

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25
Q

What structure in a bone persists for life?

A

Articular cartilage

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26
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How does bone grow?

A

By pushing the epiphysis away from the diaphysis

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27
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What does appositional growth produce?

A

Bone growth in width

28
Q

What does bone growth require the activity of?

A

Osteoclasts

29
Q

What dietary requirement for bone health can be made in response to skin exposure to UV light?

A

Vitamin D

30
Q

What hormone promotes an increase in the activity of osteoclasts ?

A

Parathyroid hormone

31
Q

What’s the first step of bone repair?

A

Hematoma formation

32
Q

What cells contribute to the process of calcification during intramembranous ossification?

A

Osteoblasts

33
Q

The upper arm bone, and the only bone in the brachium is called what?

A

Humerus

34
Q

In anatomical position what is the ulna to the radius?

A

Medial

35
Q

What bones form the forearm?

A

Ulna and radius

36
Q

What part of radius articulates with the humerus?

A

Radial head

37
Q

What part of each metacarpal forms the knuckle of your hand?

A

Head

38
Q

Wrist bones are known as?

A

Carpals

39
Q

What part of the coxal bone articulates with the vertebrae?

A

Ilium

40
Q

What’s the large hole in the Coxal bone called?

A

Obturator foremen

41
Q

What bone articulates with the calcaneus?

A

Fibula

42
Q

What part of the femur articulates with the tibia to form the knee joint?

A

Medial and lateral condyles

43
Q

What functional joint classification has the greatest mobility?

A

Diarthrosis

44
Q

What are fibrous joints built for?

A

Stability

45
Q

What kind of structural classification includes sutures, syndesmoses
and gomphoses?

A

Fibrous

46
Q

What kind of motion do cartilaginous joints have?

A

Little, if any motion

47
Q

What kind of cartilaginous joint is primarily involved in protection and shock absorption of the spinal cord?

A

Intervertebral disc

48
Q

What does articular cartilage found at the ends of long bones do?

A

Reduces friction and absorbs shock

49
Q

What do ligaments connect together?

A

Bone to bone

50
Q

What type of movement moves a body part away from the midline or another point of reference?

A

Abduction

51
Q

What kind of movement is shaking your head no?

A

Rotational

52
Q

What muscle assists with smiling?

A

Zygomaticus major

53
Q

Is the external oblique muscle a breathing one?

A

No

54
Q

What would damage to the pectoralis major interfere with?

A

Adducting the arm at the shoulder

55
Q

What is the deltoid responsible for?

A

Abducting the arm

56
Q

Does the rectus femoris adduct the thigh?

A

No

57
Q

Does the quadriceps femoris group include the biceps femoris?

A

No

58
Q

When there is a cut that severs the tendon that attaches the insertion of the gastrocnemius muscle what action would be difficult to perform?

A

Plantarflexion

59
Q

When climbing the stair what muscles plantarflex the foot?

A

Gastrocnemius and soleus

60
Q

What is the plasma membrane of the muscle cell know as?

A

Sarcolemma

61
Q

What protein does not belong in the thin filament?

A

Myosin

62
Q

What wraps and surrounds an individual muscle fiber?

A

Endomysium

63
Q

What is the functional contractile unit of the myofibril where muscle tension is produced?

A

Sarcomere

64
Q

When an action potential arrives in an axon terminal, what are synaptic vesicles containing acetylcholine released by?

A

Exocytosis

65
Q

What is the binding of a myosin head to an actin molecule called?

A

Cross bridge

66
Q

The main immediate source of ATP comes from?

A

Creatine phosphate

67
Q

In order to increase tension you need to do what?

A

Recruit additional motor units

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