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Quiz 3 Flashcards

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What are the categories of osseous facets?

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flat facets and rounded facets

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What is the definition of an osseous fissure?

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an irregular slit like or crack like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones

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What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

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articular heads and articular condyles

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What bones form the axial skeleton

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the skull, hyoid, vertebral column, sternum, ribs

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What is the name given to the adult skull minus the mandible?

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the cranium

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What are the names given to the top of the adult skull?

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the calvaria or calva

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What are the categories of bone forming the typical adult skull?

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the neurocranium, the facial skeleton (splanchnocranium or visceral skeleton) and the auditory ossicles

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What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult skull?

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28 bones

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What bones form the neuro-cranium of the typical adult skull?

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the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid, and ethmoid

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How many bones form the typical adult neurocranium?

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8 bones

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How many bones form the facial skeleton (splanchocranium or visceral skeleton)?

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14 bones

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What is the name given to the pre-sacral region of the typical adult vertebral column or spinal column?

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spine

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What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult spine?

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24 bones

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How many bones are in the typical adult sternum?

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1 bone

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How many ribs are present in the typical adult skeleton?

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12 pairs of 24 ribs

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What regions are present along the typical adult sternum?

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the manubrium sterni, the corpus sterni, and the xiphoid process

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What term is used to identify the study of ligaments?

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syndesmology

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What are the three histological classifications of joints?

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fibrous, cartilaginous and synovial fluid

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The ligamentous sacro-illiac joints (or most ligamentous joints of the vertebral column) are examples of which joint classification?

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syndesmosis

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Name a primary example of a syndesmosis joint?

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ligamentous sacro-iliac joint (most ligamentous joints of vertebral column)

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What are examples of the a permanent (AMPHIRTHROSIS) synchondrosis?

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costochondral joints or the first sternochondral joint

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Which example of a (amphiarthrosis) symphysis is temporary?

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symphysis menti

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What are the characteristics of a (amphiarthrosis) symphysis?

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limited motion, median plane location, support ligaments ant and post to the joint, more permanent in longevity than synchodrosis and they occur between bones developing by endochondral ossification

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