Musculosketal System Flashcards
Function of the musculoskeletal system
Gives your body its structure and support. Helps you move around
Ligaments
stabilize the joint or hold the ends of two bones together
The muscle system
Provides forces that can move the skeleton in different ways
Tendons
Creates tension in muscle which makes it contract and move
functions of the skeleton
Protects important organs in the body.
It provides a riggid structure which supports other body tissue.
It provides a way for the body to move.
Two main parts of the skeleton
Axial skeleton
Appendicular skeleton
The axial skeleton
The axial skeleton protects important organs and includes the following:
Skull
Vertebral column
Vertebrate
Ribs
Sternum
Skull
Protects brain in large cavity
Vetrabral column (spine,backbone)
Made up of vertebrate which enclose the spinal cord
The ribs and sternum (breastbone)
This cage encloses ans protects the lungs
The appendicular skeleton
The appendicular skeleton is connected to the axial skeleton.
Four limbs of appendicular skeleton
Humerus
Radius
Ulana
Carpals
Humerus
The upper foreleg bone
Radius and ulana
The lower foreleg bones
Function of carpals
connects and serves as a transition point between the forearm and hand
What are the phalanges
The bones in the toes of all four feet
What’s does the metacarpals do
Connect the phalanges to the carpals
Scapula
Shoulder bone
Clavicle
Collor bone
Femer
The upper hind leg bone
Tibia and fibula
The lower hindleg bone
Tarsals
What’s the lower hindleg attaches to
Meteatarsals
Connect the phanlanges to the tarsals
Pelvis
The pelvis is made up of the sacrum and hip bone which itself is made up of the pubis, ilium and ischium