Hughes_elle Test - The Skeletal System Flashcards
- Describe the Transverse Process.
The Tranverse Process is in the spine. It is a lateral process in the vertebrae.
- CLF - Bones of the Body : Anterior, Posterier and Lateral View
- What is the scapula?
The scapula is also know as the shoulder blade.
- CLF - Bones of the Body : Anterior, Posterior and Lateral View
- Where is the cortical bone located?
It is located in the shaft of long bones.
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- What is the haversian canal?
The haversian canal contains many blood vessels that form form a network in bone.
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- What is the trabecular bone?
It is also known as the spongy bone. It is located at the ends of long bones.
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- The spaces in bones are filled with a soft connective tissue called…..
Marrow
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- Where is the tarsal, talus and bone of the a gliding joint located?
In the ankle
- CLF - Bones of the Body : Anterior, Posterior and Lateral View
- Name reasons you make new bone cells?
During growth, to heal broken bones and in response to the force of the body’s weight
- What is the frontal bone?
It is located in the forehead.
- CLF - Skull - Anterior and Lateral
- Where is the vomer located?
Below the nasal bone
- CLF - Skull - Anterior and Lateral
- The vomer and ethmoid are part of what bone?
Nasal septum
- CLF - Skull - Anterior and Posterior
- Where is the sphenoid bone located?
Behind the eye and below the front of the brain
- CLF - Skull - Anterior and Posterior
- What is the flat bone?
Skull bones are flat bones.
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- What is the first cervical vertebrae?
It is also known as the atlas.
- CLF - Vertebral Column
- What is the axis?
It is the second cervical vertebrae.
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- What is the place where two or more bones meet?
Joint
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- What avantage do we gain from the fact that bones are hollow?
We can move around easily.
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- Which organ system makes blood cells?
Skeletal system
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- Much of a newborn baby’s skeleton is made up of
Cartilage
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- What is the name of the opening in the center of an osteon that carries blood vessels and nerves?
Haversian canal
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- Compact bone is made of
Osteons
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- What is the main function of bone marrow?
Producing blood cells
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- Which bone is used to pivot your head?
Axis
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- What is bone is made up of 4 fused vertebrae?
Skull
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- What are the ribs attached T8-T10 called?
False
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- What is the sternum?
Breast bone
- CLF - Vertebral Column
- What does calcium do?
It makes bones stronger
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- The ribs that attache to your sternum …..
Are not floating ribs
- CLF - Bones of the Body : Anterior, Posterior and Lateral View
- Which joint is a pivot joint?
Axis and atlas
- WKST - The Skeletal System
- An example of a hinge joint is
The knee and arm joint which allows backward and forward motion
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- What does the ball and socket provide?
The greatest range of motion which includes humerus, scapula and clavicle
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