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
- a.k.a. open fracture
| - bone ends penetrate skin
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Concentric Growth
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Condyloid Joint
- 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
- 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
- Part of ethmoid bone
| - where meninges attach
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Diaphysis
Shaft of long bone
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Diarthrosis
freely movable joint
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Diploe
spongy internal bone structure
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Dorsiflexion
Angular movement of pulling toes upward
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Endochondral Ossification
bone forms by replacing hyaline cartilage
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Endosteum
- 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
Seperates the diaphysis from the epiphyses
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Epiphyseal Plate
thin plate of cartilage between the epiphysis and the metaphysis of a growing long bone
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Epiphysis
End of long bones
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Ethmoid Bone and Parts
- 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
Special movement where the ankle is bent so the sole of your foot is facing outward
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Extension
Reverse of flexion where joint angle is increased
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Facet
Smooth, nearly flat articular surface
| -great site for bone attachment
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Femur
- long bone
- thigh; largest and most vascular bone in body
- weight bearing
- lever
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Fibrocartilage
- Highly compressed with great tensile strength
- Contains collagen fibers
- Found in menisci of the knee and in intervertebral disc
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Fibrous Capsule
!!
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Fibrous Joints
- Bones joined by fibrous tissue
- no joint cavity
- most are immovable
- three types: sutures, syndesmoses, gomphoses
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Fibula
- long bone
- only bone you can break and still walk
- helps stabilize ankle, non-weight bearing
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Fissure
Narrow, slit-like opening (looks like a crack)
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Flat Bones
- Thin, flattened, and a bit curved
- Sternum and skull bones
- Protection and muscle attachment
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Flexion
Decreasing angle of joint
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Fontanels
!!
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Foramen
Round or oval opening through a bone for blood vessels, nerves, etc.
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Foramen Magnum
Hole in Occipital bone for spinal cord
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Foramina
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Frontal bone and parts
- Forehead
| - Supercilliary ridge, supraorbital foramen, glabella, supraorbital margin, orbital plate, nasal spine
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Function of bones
- Support
- Protection
- Movement
- Mineral storage
- Blood Cell Formation
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Gliding motion
-One flat bone surface glides over another similar surface
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Gomphoses
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
- 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
Incomplete fracture where one side of the bone breaks and the other side bends
-common in children
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Haversian Canal
!!
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Hematoporesis
!!
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Hinge Joint
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Inferior Nasal Concha
- lateral walls of nasal cavity
- flat, curved w/ ridges
- lighten load, warm and humidify and filters air
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Intervertebral Discs
- made of fibril cartilage
- cushion/shock absorber
- allows bend/movement
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Inversion
Special movement where you turn your foot so the sole of the foot is facing in
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Irregular Bones
- Bones with complicated shapes
| - vertebrae and hip bones
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Lacrimal bones and parts
- Very, thin rectangular shaped flat bone in the orbital cavity
- lacrimal sacs, nasal lacrimal ducts
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Lamboid Suture Line
Fusion of parietal and occipital
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Lamellar Tissue
!!
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Lateral Exercusion
!!
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Ligaments
Unite bones and prevent excessive or unwanted motion
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Long bones
- Longer than they are wide
| - Act as levers
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Lumbar Vertebrae
- 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
- 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
