Skeletal System

Question 1

What is the clavicle?

Answer 1

The bone that connects the breastplate to the shoulder

Question 2

What is the scapula?

Answer 2

A large triangular shaped bone that lies in the upper back

Question 3

What is the humerus

Answer 3

The bone in your upper arm that’s located between your elbow and your shoulder

Question 4

What is the radius?

Answer 4

One of the two bones that make up the forearm

Question 5

What is the ulna

Answer 5

One of the two bones that make up the forearm (the larger of the two bones)

Question 6

What are carpals

Answer 6

Bones of the wrist

Question 7

What are meta carpals

Answer 7

Bones of the palm

Question 8

What are phalanges

Answer 8

Bones of the digits

Question 9

What is the pelvic girdle

Answer 9

A basin shaped complex of bones that connects the trunk and the legs

Question 10

What does the pelvic girdle support?

Answer 10

The trunk, intestines, urinary bladder and internal Sex organs

Question 11

What is the femur

Answer 11

Thigh bone. The longest and strongest bone in your body

Question 12

What is the patella

Answer 12

A small bone located in front of the knee joint to protect the knee

Question 13

What is the tibia

Answer 13

The shinbone, the larger of the two bones in the lower leg

Question 14

What is the fibula?

Answer 14

Calf bone on the lateral side of the tibia

Question 15

What are tarsals?

Answer 15

A set of seven irregularly shaped bones situated in the ankle area

Question 16

What are metatarsals?

Answer 16

5 bones that connect the phalanges to the tarsals

Question 17

What are phalanges of the foot?

Answer 17

The bones of the toes

Question 18

What are synovial joints?

Answer 18

Freely movable joints that have synovial fluid which allows all parts of the joint to move smoothly against each other. Most prevalent joints in the body

Question 19

Examples of synovial joints

Answer 19

Knee and shoulder

Question 20

What are fibrous joints?

Answer 20

Fixed joints defined as two or more bones in close contact that have no movement

Question 21

Example of fibrous joint

Answer 21

The bones of the skull

Question 22

What are Cartliganeous joints?

Answer 22

Two or more bones held so tightly together that only limited movement can take place

Question 23

Examples of cartilaginous joints?

Answer 23

The vertebrae of the spine

Question 24

How many categories of synovial joints are there?

Answer 24

Six

Question 25

What is a hinge joint?

Answer 25

Surface of one bone articulates with concave surface of another

Question 26

Example of hinge

Answer 26

Flexion and extension Elbow, phalanges

Question 27

Ball and socket joint?

Answer 27

Ball shaped head of one bone articulates with cup shaped cavity of another

Question 28

Ball and socket joints example

Answer 28

All planes and rotation Hip and shoulder

Question 29

Saddle joint?

Answer 29

Concave surface in one direction and convex in another

Question 30

Examples of saddle joints?

Answer 30

Back and fourth, side to side Thumb, 1st metacarpal and trapezium

Question 31

Pivot joint?

Answer 31

Cylindrical surface of one bone articulates with ring of bone and ligament

Question 32

Pivot joint examples?

Answer 32

Rotation around central axis Atlas, axis, proximal articulation of radius and ulna

Question 33

Gliding joint?

Answer 33

Articulating surfaces flat or slightly curved

Question 34

Gliding examples?

Answer 34

Sliding or twisting Wrist, ankles, sternum to clavicle

Question 35

Condyloid?

Answer 35

Oval shaped condyle of one bone articulates with elliptical cavity of another

Question 36

Condyloid examples?

Answer 36

Variety of movements, no rotation Metacarpals and phalanges

Question 37

What does articulate capsule do?

Answer 37

Encloses the joint cavity

Question 38

What does the articulation cartilage/hyaline do?

Answer 38

Covers the surface of the bones which meet together

Question 39

What does synovial fluid do?

Answer 39

Lubricators and nourishes the articulation cartilage

Question 40

What is bursa?

Answer 40

Small sac of fluid located between bones and tendons

Question 41

What are tendons?

Answer 41

Thick and dense connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone

Question 42

What are ligaments?

Answer 42

Thick and dense connective tissue that attaches bone to bone

Question 43

What is flexion?

Answer 43

Decreasing the angle between two bones

Question 44

Extension?

Answer 44

Increasing the angle between two bones

Question 45

Abduction?

Answer 45

Movement of a bone away from the midline

Question 46

Adduction

Answer 46

Movement of the bone towards the midline

Question 47

Pronation?

Answer 47

Movement of the palm to face down

Question 48

Supination?

Answer 48

Movement of the palm to face up

Question 49

Dorsiflexion?

Answer 49

Bending foot towards shin

Question 50

Plantarflexion?

Answer 50

Bending foot away from shin

Question 51

Inversion?

Answer 51

Rotation sole of the foot inwards

Question 52

Eversion?

Answer 52

Rotating sole of the foot outwards

Question 53

Rotation?

Answer 53

Moving a body part around in its long axis

Question 54

Circumduction?

Answer 54

The circular movement of a body part

Question 55

Types of bones?

Answer 55

Long Short Flat Irregular Sesamoid Sutural

Question 56

Functions of skeletal system?

Answer 56

Protection Axis Movement Support

Question 57

What is a long bone?

Answer 57

Levers for movement of the limbs that produce red and white blood cells

Question 58

Long bone examples

Answer 58

Femur and humerus

Question 59

What is short bone?

Answer 59

Cube shaped bone that transfers forces

Question 60

Short bone examples?

Answer 60

Tarsals and carpals

Question 61

What is a flat bone?

Answer 61

Bones that protect and serve as places for attachment for muscles

Question 62

Flat bone examples?

Answer 62

Pelvis, flat bones of the skull

Question 63

What are irregular bones?

Answer 63

Have various shaped other than long, short or flat.

Question 64

Irregular bones examples?

Answer 64

Face bones and vertebrae of spinal column

Question 65

What are sesamoid bones?

Answer 65

Found where tendons cross the ends of long bones in the limbs. They protect tendons from excessive wear

Question 66

Sesamoid bones example?

Answer 66

The patella

Question 67

What is the axial skeleton

Answer 67

Forms the vertical, central axis at the body and includes all bones of the head, neck, chest and back

Question 68

Appendicular skeleton description?

Answer 68

All appendages that are stuck onto the axial skeleton

Question 69

What are the anatomical positions?

Answer 69

Superior Inferior Anterior Posterior Medial Lateral Proximal Distal

Question 70

Describe the superior position

Answer 70

The heart and above

Question 71

Inferior position

Answer 71

The heart and below

Question 72

Anterior position

Answer 72

The front of the body

Question 73

Posterior position?

Answer 73

Back of body

Question 74

Medial position?

Answer 74

Toward the middle line

Question 75

Lateral position?

Answer 75

Away from the midline

Question 76

Proximal position?

Answer 76

Closer to the heart

Question 77

Distal position?

Answer 77

Closer to the lower part of the body

Question 78

Label skeleton

Answer 78

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