Names Of Bones Flashcards
What is the maxilla?
The jaw or jawbone, specifically the upper jaw in most vertebrates. In humans it also forms part of the nose and eye socket.
What is the mandible?
the jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in humans
What is the clavicle?
The clavicle is the collarbone, which is either of the pair of bones joining the breastbone to the shoulder blades.
Whats the sternum?
The sternum is a breastbone and a thickened ventral plate on each segment of the body of an arthropod.
Whats the pelvis?
The large bony frame near the base of the spine to which the hindlimbs or legs are attached in humans and many other vertebrates.
Whats the radius?
The radius is a straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle or sphere, and the thicker and shorter of the two bones in the human forearm
Whats the Ulna?
the thinner and longer of the two bones in the human forearm, on the side opposite to the thumb
Whats the humorous?
the bone of the upper arm or forelimb, forming joints at the shoulder and the elbow. When you hit your funny bone it can be an easy way to remember by the word ‘humerus’.
Whats the ribs?
The bones in the upper chest which protect your upper organs.
Whats the femur?
the bone of the thigh or upper hindlimb, articulating at the hip and the knee.
Whats the patella?
The patella is the knee cap.
Whats the tarsals?
a bone of the tarsus, and the upper bone in the foot.
Whats the Metatarsals?
any of the bones of the foot and the groups of bones in the middle of the foot.
Whats the Philanges?
The group of bones at the end of the foot and the finger tips.
Whats the cranium?
the skull, especially the part enclosing the brain.
