Introduction to skeleton

Question 1

What is role of skeleton?

Answer 1

provides support, is the framework for soft tissues, locomotion

Question 2

how is the skeleton divided?

Answer 2

axial and appendicular skeleton

Question 3

Which skeleton divisions is for locomotion?

Answer 3

Appendicular skeleton

Question 4

Which skeleton divisions is for support and protection?

Answer 4

Axial

Question 5

Which skeleton do the ribs fall into?

Answer 5

Axial

Question 6

How many bones in appendicular?

Answer 6

126

Question 7

what allows movement of bones?

Answer 7

joints

Question 8

what % of body mass is muscle?

Answer 8

40%

Question 9

what controls movement of skeletal muscles?

Answer 9

nervous system

Question 10

what is jaw bone called?

Answer 10

mandible

Question 11

which bones is the top of skull divided into?

Answer 11

frontal bone, parietal bone (back), temporal bone (lower down)

Question 12

what joins the parietal and frontal bones at the top?

Answer 12

coronal suture

Question 13

how many zygomatic bones are there?

where find?

Answer 13

2

forms the cheek bones of the face and articulates with the frontal, sphenoid, temporal and maxilla bones.

Question 14

what is maxilla? how many bones?

Answer 14

2, comprises part of the upper jaw and hard palate

Question 15

what does the coronal suture connect?

Answer 15

fuses the frontal bone with the two parietal bones.

Question 16

what is the cribiform plate?

Answer 16

The cribriform plate forms the roof of the nasal cavity. It is pierced by numerous olfactory nerve fibres, which gives it a sieve-like structure.

Question 17

where do you find the cribriform plate?

Answer 17

top of the internal surface of the skull

Question 18

what is the jugular foramen?

Answer 18

foramina that jugular vein leaves

Question 19

which is the largest cranial foramina?

Answer 19

foramen magnum

Question 20

what does the foramen magnum do?

Answer 20

allows the passage of the medulla and meninges, the vertebral arteries, the anterior and posterior spinal arteries and the dural veins.

Question 21

what brings the main blood supply to the brain?

Answer 21

internal carotid artery

Question 22

how does blood circulate in the brain?

Answer 22

blood enters carotid canal by the internal carotid artery, circulates and leaves by jugular vein

Question 23

what are fibrous joints connected by?

Answer 23

fibrous tissue

Question 24

what are cart. joints connected by?

Answer 24

cart. tissue