Skeletal System 1

Question 0

Long bones

Answer 0

Bone with shaft and joint ends

Question 1

Total number of bones in the body

Answer 1

206 but it can vary

Question 2

Short bones

Answer 2

Carpals and tarsals

Question 3

Flat bones

Answer 3

Sternum, cranium

Question 4

Irregular bones

Answer 4

Vertebrae

Question 5

Sesamoid bones

Answer 5

Patella
Embedded in tendon or ligament
Patella is only regularly occurring one

Question 6

Sutural bones

Answer 6

Tiny, located in sutures

Variation in numbers

Question 7

Depressions and openings

Answer 7

Embedment or passage of soft tissue structures into or through bone

Question 8

Fissure

Answer 8

Narrow slit between bones

Question 9

Foramen

Answer 9

Rounded opening in bone

Question 10

Fossa

Answer 10

Shallow depression usually rounded for muscle belly

Question 11

Sulcus

Answer 11

Long thin groove usually blood vessel or nerve

Question 12

Meatus

Answer 12

External opening of a tubular passage

Question 13

Projections or processes

Answer 13

Attachment points for tendons and ligaments

Usually roughened ct

Question 14

Condyle

Answer 14

Large rounded protuberance

Part of joint

Question 15

Facet

Answer 15

Smooth flattened articular surface

Question 16

Crest

Answer 16

Ridge like projection for attachment

Question 17

Epicondyle

Answer 17

Projection rising above a condyle

Question 18

Line

Answer 18

Long narrow thin ridge

Less prominent than a crest

Question 19

Spinous process

Answer 19

Spike like projection

Question 20

Trochanter

Answer 20

Large projection in region of a joint

Question 21

Tubercle

Answer 21

Small rounded projection at region of joint

Question 22

Tuberosity

Answer 22

Large rounded projection at region of joint

Roughened

Question 23

How many bones in the skull?

Answer 23

22 divided into two regions

Question 24

Cranial vault

Answer 24

8 bones | Brain encasement

Question 25

Bones of face

Answer 25

14 bones

Question 26

Problem with cranial vault

Answer 26

Limits volume of space | When brain is injured and swells creates intracranial pressure

Question 27

Frontal bone

Answer 27

Frontal Squama Supraorbital margins and ridges Frontal sinuses

Question 28

Parietal bones

Answer 28

Most of sides and roof of cranial vault | Interior accommodates membranes and folds of brain that lie beneath

Question 29

Temporal Squama

Answer 29

THIN | Most susceptible to injury and penetration

Question 30

Temporal bones

Answer 30

``` Zygomatic process Mandibular fossa Mastoid portion Carotid foramen Jugular foramen Petrous portion ```

Question 31

Occipital bone

Answer 31

``` Very thick that forms posterior wall and floor of cranium Foramen magnum Occipital condyles External occipital prominence Nuchal lines ```