Locomotor System Flashcards
What is the locomotor system also known as?
the muscoskeletal system
What does the locomotor apparatus include?
All organs which provide the body stability, which permits movement and which, at the same time, provide the basis for the characteristic conformation of individual species.
Which two parts of what two systems have a close interrelationship?
passive part of the locomotor apparatus (the skeletal system), and the active part of the locomotor apparatus (muscular system).
What is the skeletal system? What is its different name?
- passive locomotor system
- composed of the bony framework of the body which has a considerable weight-bearing capacity.
- composed of bones, cartilage, connective tissue elements, cavities
What is the muscular system? What is its different name?
- active locomotor system
- preforms the movement with means for locomotion
- composed of a number of individual muscles (skeletal muscle fibres, connective tissue)
What is the skeleton divided into (2 parts)?
Axial skeleton (skeleton axiale):
- skull (cranium)
- vertebral column (columna vertebralis)
Appendicular skeleton (skeleton appendiculare):
- bones of the thoracic limb (ossa membri thoracici)
- bones of the pelvic limb (ossa membri pelvini)
What is in the axial skeleton?
- skull (cranium)
- vertebral column (columna vertebralis)
What is in the appendicular skeleton?
- bones of the thoracic limb (ossa membri thoracici)
- bones of the pelvic limb (ossa membri pelvini)
What are the four principal classifications of bones?
- long bones (typical limb bones)
- flat bones (outer layer from compact bone, inner spongy layer)
- short bones (outer layer of compact bone, inner core of cancellous bone)
- irregular bones (similar structure to short bones, but less uniform in shape)
What are the two specialized types of bones?
Sesamoid bones- sesame seed shaped bones that develop within a tendon (occasionally ligament) that runs over an underlying bony prominence.
Pneumatic bones- air filled spaces (sinuses) which have the effect of reducing the weight of the bone.
What are sesamoidal bones for?
they change the angle at which the tendon passes over the bone
- reduce the wear and tear
State an example of pneumatic bones.
maxillary and frontal bones
What is the difference between a pneumatic bone and a medullary bone?
Pneumatic bones are pneumatised (air-filled) for the purpose of weight reduction.
Medullary bones are calcium reservoirs found in female birds during the breeding period.
What bone is specific to birds?
The medullary bone, which is a form of a calcium reservoir.
What are the three types of joints?
1) fibrous joints
2) cartilaginous joints
3) synovial joints
What is a different word for joint?
arthrosis
What are fibrous joints? What is their different name?
- immobile joints united by fibrous tissue
- juncture fibrosae
- (permits only slight movement)
What unites the bones the skull? How does it further specialize?
Sutures (suturae):
- plane suture (sutura serrata)
- squamous suture (sutura plana)
- foliate suture (sutura foliata)
- gymphosis
What are gomphosis?
the implantation of the teeth in the dental alveoli by the periodontal membrane
State an example of syndesmosis.
the fibrous tissue which unites the radius and ulna.
State an example of the sutura bone.
the bottom of the jaw
State an example of gomphosis.
teeth attatchemnts