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Skeletal/Joints Flashcards

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Abduction

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Moving away from midline

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Adduction

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Moving toward midline

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Amphiarthrosis

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slightly moveable joint

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Angular Movements

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  • Flexion: decrease of angle
  • Extension: increase of angle
  • Dorsiflexion: pulling toes up
  • Plantar Flexion: curling toes under
  • Abduction: movement away from midline
  • Adduction: movement towards midline
  • Circumduction: circular motion
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Appositional Growth

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Layer of new cartilage is added to old layer. Adds to width of cartilage

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Articular Cartilage

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Cartilage that covers ends of long bones

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Atlas

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First cervical vertebrae that allows “yes” motion

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Axial Skeleton

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  • Skull
  • Auditory ossicles (in temporal bone: hearing)
  • Hyoid bone
  • Vertebral column
  • Rib cage
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Axis

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Second cervical vertebrae that allows “no” motion

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Ball and Socket Joint

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Spherical head of one bone connects with cuplike socket of another

  • very free moving
  • shoulder and hip bones
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Blood Forming Tissues

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!!

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Bony Matrix

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!!

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Bursae

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  • Extensions of synovial joints that protect skin, tendons, or bone from structures that could rub against them
  • Sac between joints that reduce friction
  • Lined with synovial membranes and filled synovial fluid
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Bursitis

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  • Inflammation of the bursa caused by a blow or friction
  • symptoms: pain and swelling
  • treated with anti-inflammatory drugs
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Calcaneus

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  • a.k.a. heel bone
  • largest and strongest bone of foot
  • major muscle attachment site
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Canaliculi

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  • Hair-like canals that connect lacunae (small cavities that contain bone cells) to each other and the central canal
  • Passageway for nerves, blood vessels, diffusion of nutrients and waste products
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Carpals

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  • eight bones of the wrist

- allows movement of wrist

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Cartilaginous

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  • Articulating bones united by cartilage
  • lack a joint cavity
  • two types: synchondroses, symphyses
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Cervical Vertebrae

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Top seven vertebrae

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Chondrocytes

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  • Located in lacunae and surrounded by matrix

- They are chondroblasts that have produced cartilage

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Circumduction

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  • Circular motion

- Uses flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction

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Clavicle

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  • Part of Appendicular Skeleton
  • Holds the shoulder away from the body and allows arms to move freely
  • long bone
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Comminuted fracture

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Bone fragments into three or more pieces

-common in old people

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Compact Bones

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-Dense with few spaces

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Compound Fracture

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  • a.k.a. open fracture

- bone ends penetrate skin

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Concentric Growth

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!!

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Condyloid Joint

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  • Oval surface of one bone fits into a complementary depression of another bone
  • both articular surfaces are oval in shape
  • allows all angular motions
  • carpals
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Cribriform Plate

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  • Part of the ethmoid bone
  • Looks like sponge (filled with holes)
  • rich in blood
  • where olfactory nerves go through
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Crista Galli

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  • Part of ethmoid bone

- where meninges attach

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Diaphysis

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Shaft of long bone

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Diarthrosis

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freely movable joint

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Diploe

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spongy internal bone structure

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Dorsiflexion

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Angular movement of pulling toes upward

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Endochondral Ossification

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bone forms by replacing hyaline cartilage

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Endosteum

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  • Delicate membrane covering internal surfaces of bone
  • Made of simple squamous epithelial tissue
  • Allows things to move over it and growth especially in the width of bones
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Epiphyseal Line

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Seperates the diaphysis from the epiphyses

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Epiphyseal Plate

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thin plate of cartilage between the epiphysis and the metaphysis of a growing long bone

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Epiphysis

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End of long bones

39
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Ethmoid Bone and Parts

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  • Forms part of nasal and cranial cavity, attachment site for meninges, passageway for nerves and blood vessels
  • Superior Nasal Concha
  • Middle Nasal Concha
  • Crista Galli
  • Cribiform Plate
  • Perpendicular Plate of the Ethmoid Bone
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Eversion

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Special movement where the ankle is bent so the sole of your foot is facing outward

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Extension

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Reverse of flexion where joint angle is increased

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Facet

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Smooth, nearly flat articular surface

-great site for bone attachment

43
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Femur

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  • long bone
  • thigh; largest and most vascular bone in body
  • weight bearing
  • lever
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Fibrocartilage

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  • Highly compressed with great tensile strength
  • Contains collagen fibers
  • Found in menisci of the knee and in intervertebral disc
45
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Fibrous Capsule

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!!

46
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Fibrous Joints

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  • Bones joined by fibrous tissue
  • no joint cavity
  • most are immovable
  • three types: sutures, syndesmoses, gomphoses
47
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Fibula

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  • long bone
  • only bone you can break and still walk
  • helps stabilize ankle, non-weight bearing
48
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Fissure

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Narrow, slit-like opening (looks like a crack)

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Flat Bones

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  • Thin, flattened, and a bit curved
  • Sternum and skull bones
  • Protection and muscle attachment
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Flexion

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Decreasing angle of joint

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Fontanels

A

!!

52
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Foramen

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Round or oval opening through a bone for blood vessels, nerves, etc.

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Foramen Magnum

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Hole in Occipital bone for spinal cord

54
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Foramina

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!!

55
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Frontal bone and parts

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  • Forehead

- Supercilliary ridge, supraorbital foramen, glabella, supraorbital margin, orbital plate, nasal spine

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Function of bones

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  • Support
  • Protection
  • Movement
  • Mineral storage
  • Blood Cell Formation
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Gliding motion

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-One flat bone surface glides over another similar surface

58
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Gomphoses

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The peg in socket fibrous joint between a tooth and its alveolar socket

  • mandible and maxilla
  • fibrous connection is the peridontal ligament
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Gouty Arthritis

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  • Deposition of uric acid (break down of protein) crystals in joints and soft tissues, followed by an inflammation response
  • affects at base of big toe and if untreated the toes can fuse together
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Greenstick fracture

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Incomplete fracture where one side of the bone breaks and the other side bends
-common in children

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Haversian Canal

A

!!

62
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Hematoporesis

A

!!

63
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Hinge Joint

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  • Cylindrical projections of one bone fits into a trough-shaped surface on another motion is along a single plane
  • allows flexion and extension only
  • elbow
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Hyaline Cartilage

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  • Origin for most of cartilage in body
  • made of mainly white protein called collagen
  • provides support, flexibilty, and resilience
  • most abundant cartilage
  • present in: articular, costal, respiratory, nasal
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Hydroxyapatite

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  • a.k.a. mineral salts
  • 65% of bone mass
  • mainly calcium phosphates
  • responsible for bone hardness and its resistance to compression
  • inorganic compound of bones
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Hyoid Bone

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  • beneath tongue above larnyx
  • u shaped bone
  • suspended bone (doesnt connect with any other bone)
  • break it you die
  • attaches to tongue and larynx, holds open airway
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Hyperextension

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!!

68
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Inferior Nasal Concha

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  • lateral walls of nasal cavity
  • flat, curved w/ ridges
  • lighten load, warm and humidify and filters air
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Intervertebral Discs

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  • made of fibril cartilage
  • cushion/shock absorber
  • allows bend/movement
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Inversion

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Special movement where you turn your foot so the sole of the foot is facing in

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Irregular Bones

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  • Bones with complicated shapes

- vertebrae and hip bones

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Lacrimal bones and parts

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  • Very, thin rectangular shaped flat bone in the orbital cavity
  • lacrimal sacs, nasal lacrimal ducts
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Lamboid Suture Line

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Fusion of parietal and occipital

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Lamellar Tissue

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!!

75
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Lateral Exercusion

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!!

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Ligaments

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Unite bones and prevent excessive or unwanted motion

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Long bones

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  • Longer than they are wide

- Act as levers

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Lumbar Vertebrae

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  • L1-L5
  • located in small of back
  • protect end of spinal cord that ends at L3
  • weight bearing and form pelvic cavity
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Mandible and parts

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  • Lower jaw, horse-shoe shaped, largest bone in skull
  • Forms lower jaw, muscle attachment, passageway for nerves and blood vessels
  • Alveolar processes of mandible, mental foramen, ramus, body of the mandible, coronoid process of the mandible, mandibular condile of the mandible, mandibular notch

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