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Skeletal System Flashcards

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Two Types of Skeleton

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Axial and appendicular

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Axial

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Supports the upright position and protects internal organs (80 bones) skull, vertebrate, rib cage, and sternum

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Appendicular

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Aid in the movement of the body (126 bones) pectoral girdle, arms, forearms, hands, pelvis, legs, feet, and ankles

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4
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Total Bones

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206 bones

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Skeletal System Functions

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Support and protection, body movement, produces blood cells, storage of minerals and fats

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Epiphysis

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Bone ends

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Diaphysis

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Middle of bone

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8
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Articular Cartilage

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End padding tissue on bone

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Periosteum

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Bone membrane

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Medullary Cavity

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Hollow chamber filled with bone marrow

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Compact Bone Tissue

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Wall of the diaphysis

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Spongy Bone Tissue

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Cancellous bone in epiphysis

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Long Bones

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Cylinder shaped, longer than its wide; leverage; tibia, fibula

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Short Bones

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Cube shaped, approximately equal in dimensions; stability, support, motion; carpals, tarsals

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Flat Bones

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Thin, curved; muscle attachments and organ protectors; sternum, ribs

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Irregular Bones

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Complex shaped; protect organs; vertebrae, facial bones

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Sesamoid Bones

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Small, round; protect tendons; patellae

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18
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Red Bone Marrow

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White and blood cells

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Yellow Bone Marrow

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Fat

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Pivot

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Uniaxial; allows rotational movement; proximal radioulnar joint

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Hinge

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Uniaxial; allows flexion/extension movements; knee

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Condyloid

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Biaxial; allows flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, circumduction; joint of fingers

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Saddle

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Biaxial; allows flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, circumduction; sternoclavicular joint

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Plane

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Multiaxial; allows inversion/eversion; intertarsal joints of food

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Ball-and-socket

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Multiaxial; allows medial/lateral rotation movements; shoulder/hip joints

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Flexion/Extension

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Flexing and extending your arm

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Adduction/Abduction/Circumduction

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Add: arms close Ab: arms away C: move in circles

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Rotation

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Medial/Lateral; head to left and middle

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Supination/Pronation

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P: hand down S: hand up

30
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Dorsiflexion/Plantar Flexion

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Ankle up, ankle down

31
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Inversion/Eversion

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Ankle in, ankle out

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Protraction/Retraction

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Head to front, head to back

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Depression/Elevation

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Low shoulder, high shoulders

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Opposition/Reposition

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Index and thumb together, normal hand

35
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Bones in Cranium

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22 bones

36
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Movable Bone in Skull

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The mandible (lower jaw)

37
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Five Vertebral Regions

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Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx

38
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Vertebrae in Cervical

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7 vertebrae in cervical (neck)

39
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Vertebrae in Thoracic

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12 thoracic vertebrae (middle of spine)

40
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Vertebrae in Lumbar

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5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back)

41
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Scoliosis

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Curve in spine (Curve sideways)

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Kyphosis

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Humpback (Curve outward)

43
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Lordosis

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Swayback (Curve inward)

44
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Thoracic Cage

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Protects heart and lungs

45
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Costal Cartilage

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Rib bone connects to sternum (middle chest bone)

46
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Three Types of Ribs

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True ribs (7) False ribs (3) Floating ribs (2)

47
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Pectoral Girdle

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The clavicle and scapula

48
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Humerus

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Top of the arm (shoulder to elbow)

49
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Radius

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Outer bone of the forearm

50
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Ulna

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Inner bone of the forearm

51
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Carpals

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Wrist

52
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Metacarpals

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Palm bones (between wrist and fingers)

53
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Phalanges

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Fingers

54
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Femur

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Thigh bone (between knee and pelvis)

55
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Tibia

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Big bone in shin

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Fibula

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Thin bone in shin

57
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Tarsals

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Ankle

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Metatarsals

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Bones between toes and ankles

59
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Open (simple)

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There is an open wound or break in the skin near the site of the broken bone

60
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Closed (compounded)

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If the injury doesn’t break open the skin

61
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Transverse

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The bone perpendicular to the axis of the bone

62
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Oblique

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The break has a curved or sloped pattern

63
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Spiral

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Long bones that result from a rotational force applied to the bone

64
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Comminuted

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Break of the bone into more than two fragments

65
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Impacted

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When the broken ends of the bone are jammed together by the force of the injury

66
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Greenstick

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When a bone bends and cracks

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