Skeletal System

Question 1

The skeleton is divided into what two types?

Answer 1

Axial and Appendicular

Question 2

What are the 6 types of bone

Answer 2

long bones
flat bones
sutural bones
irregular bones
short bones
sesamoid bones

Question 3

Describe and examples long bones

Answer 3

long slender located in arm, forearm, thigh, lower leg, palms, soles of feet fingers and toes
Contain bone marrow
spongy at ends, shaft (hollow with strong outer layer)

Question 4

Describe and examples flat bones

Answer 4

thin parallel surfaces with marrow between, protects soft tissue underneath, attachs muscle
top of skull, sternum, ribs, scupulae

Question 5

Sutural bones - describe and examples

Answer 5

between flat bones in skull place fillers between flat bones

Question 6

Irregular bones - describe and examples

Answer 6

complex shapes
vertebrae
pelvis
some skull

Question 7

short bones describe and examples

Answer 7

small and boxy
wrists
ankles

Question 8

Sesamoid - describe and examples

Answer 8

Small flat, like sesame seed
form inside tendons
patella but also up to 26 other locations where joint bears weight loading

Question 9

Whats important about bone composition

Answer 9

salts and collagen fibres plus water

salt relates to water meridian

Question 10

Where is bone marrow

Answer 10

in centre of shaft of long bone and in spongy bone layers of flat bone

Question 11

Where is red blood cells made in western and eastern medicine

Answer 11

Western made in bone marrow

Eastern made in small intestine then goes to bone marrow

Question 12

What are the types of bone marrow

Answer 12

Red (all when young)

Yellow (becomes when older - can change to red in emergency)

Question 13

How do we build strength in bone

Answer 13

movement and loading

Question 14

True or false

bone is full of blood vessels

Answer 14

true

Question 15

How is yoga good for bones

Answer 15

yoga loads weight from different directions to deposit layers of calcium into bone cavity