Skeletal system Flashcards
Skeletal system function
- support and protection
- blood cell formation (red marrow)
- storage of fat (yellow marrow)
- storage of calcium
- movement of muscle
long bones
longer than it is wide
short bones
look like cubes, no medullary, compact on outside and sponge inside
ex: carpals, tarsals
flat bones
thin and curved bones, compact outside, sponge inside
ex: cranial bones, front bones, sternum
irregular bones
everything else
ex: zygomatic, mandible, vertebra, sphenoid,
Wormian bones
-tiny bones in sutures (islands of bones)
sesamoid bone
-patella is the only example of this that counts
-bone that forms in a tendon, vary in size and number
-some alter the direction of a pull of a tendon
Axial skeleton contains
-skull
-vertebral column
-ribs
-sternum
*also sacrum and coxal
Appendicular system contains
-upper extremities
-lower extremities
-girdles (shoulder and pelvic)
Girdle
-take an upper extremity and tie onto axial
-as the go-between
ex: shoulder girdle and hip girdle
fissure
-crack
foramen
hole
-blood vessel nerves travel through this
Process
-bone sticking out (non-specific)
* this is for muscle attachment and bone
ex: mandible
condyle
-knuckle
ethmoid
top of nasal cavity, one side
sphenoid
-butterfly
-delicate home of pituitary and brain rest on it, keystone of cranial floor all joins to it
Depression and openings
-fissure
-meatus
-sulcus
-foramen
-fossa
meatus
tube like opening
sulcus
furrow, less deep than a fissure
fossa
-broad and shallow depression
process forming joints
-condyle
-head
-facet
facet
smooth, flat surface that forms a joint with another flat bone or another facet, together creating a gliding joint
process to which tendons etc. attach
-tubercle
-trochanter
-line
-epicondyle
-tuberosity
-crest
-spine
cranial bones
- frontal (1)
- parietal (2)
- occipital (1)
- temporal (2)
- sphenoid (1)
- ethmoid (1)
Facial bones
Maxilla (2)
palatine (2)
zygomatic (2)
lacrimal (2)
nasal (2)
vomer (1)
inferior nasal conchae (2)
mandible (1)
mandible
only free moving bone
maxilla
responsible for hard pallet, make up 80%
palatine
-posterior part of mandible
zygomatic
cheek bones
hard pallet
-nasal floor
cleft pallete
-when maxilla and palatine do not meet
Temporal bone
contains the eardrum, cochlea, and has everything to do with the ear b/c intimate with the brain
middle ear ossicles
-malleus (2)
-incus (2)
-stapes (2)
hyoid bone
-only one
vertebral column
-cervical vertebra (7)
-thoracic vertebra (12)
-lumbar vertebra (5)
-sacrum (1)
-coccyx (1)
* in a fetus there are 5 bones in the sacrum
*only 4 curves in adults
*coccyx can have 3,4 or 5 bones
rib cage
-rib (24) (12 on each side)
-sternum (1)
pectoral girdle
-scapula (2)
-clavicle (2)