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Skeletal System Flashcards

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Long bone features

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Tubular, long, shaft with marrow cavity, rigid levers acted upon by muscles

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Types of bones

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Long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid

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Sesamoid bones developed

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Within a tendon

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Bone features

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Diaphysis- shaft
Epiphysis- rounded ends of a long bone
Metaphysics- neck of long bone

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Diaphysis

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Shaft of bone

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Epiphysis

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Rounded ends of long bones

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Metaphysis

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Neck of long bone

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Bone elevations

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Linear (aka line, ridge, crest)
Large (aka process, tuberosity, trochanter, epicondyle)
Small (aka protuberance, tubercle, spine)

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Bony depressions

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Fossa

Small (groove, notch, sulcus)

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10
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Bony Facets

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Small projections covered in cartilage

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Bony forearm

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Opening or holes

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12
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Meatus

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Opening with no direct exit

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13
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Canal

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Has an opening on both sides of the bone

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14
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What makes up skeletal system

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Bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons

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Ligaments

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Hold bones at joints

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Tendons

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Attach muscles to bones

17
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What makes up axial skeleton

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Skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum, hyoid

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Appendicular skeleton

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Limbs

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Why is the skeleton important

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Structure, protection, movement, blood formation (bone marrow), mineral storage

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Cortical

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Outer shell of bone

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Medullary cavity

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Bone marrow

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Periosteum

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External connective tissue

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Endosteum

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Internal connective tissue

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How many bone in kids and adults

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~300 at birth, 206 as adults

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Types of joints

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Bony, fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial

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Synostosis joint

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Immovable joint formed when the gap between 2 bones ossifies

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Fibrous joints

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Joints united by fibrous tissue

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3 types of fibrous joints

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Gomphoses, syndesmosis, sutures

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Cartilaginous joints joined by cartilage, the 2 types?

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Synchondrosis and symphysis

30
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Synchondrosis cartilaginous joint

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Bound by cartilage

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Symphysis cartilaginous joint

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Joined by fibrocartilage

32
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Synovial joints provide

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Free movement

33
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Types of synovial joints

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Pivot, ball and socket, condyloid, Palme, hinge, saddle

34
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Synovial joints have

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Joint capsule
Joint cavity
Synovial fluid
Articulate …..
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