Module 6 Flashcards
The PLANE that divides the body into LEFT and RIGHT portions
Sagittal
While reaching for a doorknob and twisting it to open a door, which of the following paired actions are used?
Pronation + supination
The large bony apophysis on the proximal femur that is an attachment point of muscles involved in running ; it comes from the Greek word meaning “to run” or “to rotate/spin”?
Trochanter
A small pit
Fovea
The bony apophysis that is a small, rounded head, like the one found on the distal humerus
Capitulum
The bony depression that describes a “large basin”, like the one found on the hip bone
Fossa
This word describes a hole with some length, like the canal that forms the external ear canal
Meatus
This type of suture joint found between the temporal bone and the parietal bone:
Squamosal
The structure that produces synovial fluid in a synovial joint
Synovial membrane
Which of the following joint types has the greatest ROM
Diarthrosis
Which joint type has the greatest ROM
Spheroid
The type of joint found between two articulating vertebral bodies
Cartilaginous
The type of joint found between two articulating vertebral bodies
Amphiarthrosis
This type of diarthrotic joint that only allows for the action of translation
Gliding (Plane)
Which of the following is an example of a multi-axial joint?
Knee (femorotibial)
Femoroacetabular (hip)
Wrist (radioulnarcarpal)
Femoroacetabular (hip)
The number of tarsals per foot
7
The growth plate of a long bone is found here
Metaphysis
The humerus is part of which division of the skeletal system?
Appendicular
Osseous
Axial
Appendicular
The textbook number of bones in the human body
206
The axial skeleton contains how many thoracic vertebrae
12
Which of the following have more bones
A 4-year old female
A 44-year old male
A 4-year old female
7-10 concentric rings of lamellae form a/an
Osteon
The process by which a long bone, like the femur elongate
Endochondral
One of the bones that articulates at the glenohumeral joint
Scapula
What bone articulates with the distal femur?
Ulna
Fibula
Tibia
Tibia
What type of fascia separates compartments of muscles?
Deep (investing) fascia
Myofibroblasts and the contractile filaments of fascia respond to innervation from this division of the ANS
Sympathetic
A muscle that has roughly four equal sides to its shape is described as
Quadrate
A muscle whose belly is thickest in the middle, and whose ends both taper or narrow down to a round tendon on each end of the muscle describes which muscle morphology?
Fusiform
A flat sheet-like tendinous attachment of muscle like the one found attaching the muscles of the abdominal wall to the ribs, back and hips
Aponeurosis
Which of the following defines the muscle attachment ement point that moves, or is mobile during muscle contraction?
Concentric contractor
Origin
Insertion
Insertion
The structural divisions of the nervous system include
PNS, CNS
The structural divisions of the nervous system include
PNS, CNS
The part of the neuron that transmits or propagates and action potential
Axon
The standard numbers of pairs of spinal nerves
31
Neutrons that carry action potentials from the skin to the spinal cord or brain have what type of shape/morphology
Pseudounipolar
Motor neutrons are found in which of the following types of nerves?
Cranial, spinal, peripheral
The function of the nervous system that allows an action potential to be transmitted or propagated along an axon
Conductivity
The function of the nervous system that allows an action potential to be transmitted or propagated along an axon
Conductivity
which of the following processes occurs in the CNS?
Sensation
Integration
Motor output
Integration
A group of bodies in the PNS
Ganglion
A group of axonal fibers in the CNS
Tract
The neurological cell of the PNS responsible for myelin sheath formation
Schwann cell
