Skeletal

Question 1

What are some components of bone matrix?

Answer 1

Inorganic salts
Organic matrix
Collagenous fibers

Question 2

What is the small space in which bone cells lie called?

Answer 2

Lacunae

Question 3

What is the basic structural unit of a compact bone?

Answer 3

Osteon

Question 4

What is the cell called that produces the organic matrix in the bone?

Answer 4

Osteoblasts

Question 5

Which bones contain red marrow?

Answer 5

Ribs
Pelvis
Femur

Question 6

What evokes a low blood calcium response?

Answer 6

Parathyroid hormone

Question 7

Where is the primary ossification center located?

Answer 7

Diaphysis

Question 8

What is the epiphyseal plate mostly composed of?

Answer 8

Chondrocytes

Question 9

Between what ages does bone loss normally begin to exceed bone gain?

Answer 9

35 and 40 years

Question 10

What is the fist step to healing a bone fracture?

Answer 10

Fracture hematoma formation

Question 11

What is the fibrous covering of cartilage called?

Answer 11

Perichondrium

Question 12

What is the external ear, epiglottis, and the auditory tube composed of?

Answer 12

Elastic cartilage

Question 13

What can Vitamin D deficiency result in?

Answer 13

Rickets

Question 14

What two bones does the squamous suture connect?

Answer 14

Frontal and parietal

Question 15

Where are the mastoid sinuses found?

Answer 15

Frontal

Question 16

What is the skull bone that articulates with the first cervical vertebrae?

Answer 16

Occipital

Question 17

What can a meatus be described as?

Answer 17

Tubelike opening or channel

Question 18

Separation of the nasal and cranial cavities is achieved by?

Answer 18

Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.

Question 19

What is not a bone of the orbit?

Answer 19

Nasal

Question 20

What is not a marking on facial bones?

Answer 20

Sutures

Question 21

What does the palatine process do?

Answer 21

Forms part of the hard palate

Question 22

What is the foundation or keystone in the architecture of the face?

Answer 22

Maxillae

Question 23

The shape of the nose is formed by the nasal bones and what bone?

Answer 23

Septal cartilage

Question 24

Which marking does not appear on the mandible?

Answer 24

Horizontal plate

Question 25

Lamina is a posterior portion of what?

Answer 25

Vertebra

Question 26

What is not a part of the vertebral column?

Answer 26

Coccyx curvature

Question 27

The dens projects from the body of what?

Answer 27

Second vertebra

Question 28

Why is the vertebral column curved?

Answer 28

To increase the carrying strength of the column

Question 29

What is the first cervical vertebra known as?

Answer 29

Atlas

Question 30

What is another name for “hunchback”?

Answer 30

Kyphosis

Question 31

What does mastoiditis involve?

Answer 31

Temporal bone

Question 32

What is otitis media treated with?

Answer 32

Antibiotics

Question 33

What does the shoulder girdle consist of?

Answer 33

Clavicle and scapula

Question 34

What is the coronoid fossa?

Answer 34

Depression on the humerus

Question 35

What is the arm socket?

Answer 35

Glenoid cavity

Question 36

What is the bone on the thumb side of the forearm?

Answer 36

Radius

Question 37

What is the most freely moveable joint within the carpal bones?

Answer 37

Thumb

Question 38

What are the bones of the pelvic girdle?

Answer 38

Ilium
Ischium
Pubis

Question 39

The greater trochanter is a bony landmark of what?

Answer 39

Femur

Question 40

What is the imaginary plane that a child passes through during childbirth?

Answer 40

Pelvic outlet

Question 41

What is the strongest and lowermost portion of the coxal bone?

Answer 41

Ischium