Skeletal System

Question 1

Functions:

Answer 1

1: framework of the body
2: protects delicate structures,
3: acts as levers to produce movement
4: stores calcium salts
5: produces blood cells

Question 2

Diaphysis:

Answer 2

Shaft of a long bone (compact bone)

Question 3

Epiphysis:

Answer 3

End of long bong (hollowshaft)

Question 4

Periosteum:

Answer 4

Strong fiborous membrane covering the shaft of a long bone

Question 5

Osteoporosis:

Answer 5

New bone creation doesn’t keep up with old bone removal

Question 6

Frontal bone (frontal sinus)

Answer 6

Forms the forehead

Question 7

Parietal bones

Answer 7

Top and sides of skull

Question 8

Temporal bones: (mastoid sinus)

Answer 8

Part of sides and part of the base of skull.

Question 9

Occipital bone (foramen magnum)

Answer 9

Back of the bone and base

Question 10

Fibrous joints:

Answer 10

• Held together by fibrous conectivo tissue
• found in the sutures of the skull
• immovable or synathrosis

Question 11

Cartilaginous:

Answer 11

• Connected by cartilage
• found between public bones in the pelvis and between vertebrae
  -Amphiarthrosis : slightly moveable

Question 12

Synovial joints:

Answer 12

Cavity filled with synovial fluid.
Freely moveable

Question 13

Axial:

Answer 13

Bones of skull, vertebral column, and thorax

Question 14

Appendicular

Answer 14

Forms the framework for extremities, shoulders, and hips

Question 15

Circumduction:

Answer 15

Moving arm in circular motion

Question 16

Rotation:

Answer 16

Turning bone on its own axis

Question 17

Supination:

Answer 17

Turning palm up

Question 18

Pronation:

Answer 18

Turning palm down

Question 19

Inversion:

Answer 19

Sole outward

Question 20

Eversion:

Answer 20

Sole inward

Question 21

Plantar flexion:

Answer 21

Pointing toes

Question 22

Dorsiflexion:

Answer 22

Pull toes up toward shin